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Quality ControlGraduate Centre for Management (GCM)
The GCM embraces the opportunities for skills enhancement towards life-long learning and the creation of a transformative environment in which accessibility, equity and the redress of past inequalities can be addressed.
Our aim is to provide affordable, quality education based on the platform of academic and vocational learning, with special emphasis on executive management and related training that will encourage portability through national and international co-operative relationships.
Short courses are available as scheduled or on request, on campus or in-house, for individuals or corporate and institutional clients with twelve or more participants and may be customised from our many National Diploma offerings to meet personal, management, human resource and skills development needs.
Our courses are offered on block release, full-time or part-time basis and are facilitated by qualified and experienced academics.
In addition our HODs, Subject Specialists, Industrial Psychologist and our Human Resource, Training and Development Practitioners are available, by appointment, for consultation.
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Occupational Certificate: Learning and Development Practitioner
The purpose of this qualification is to prepare a learner to operate as a Learning and Development Practitioner. A Learning and Development Practitioner plans, writes learning objectives, selects and adapts learning resources required for the delivery of learning interventions, and facilitates learning in an occupational context. A qualified learner will be able to: Co-ordinate learning within an…
Diploma of Procurement and Supply: Chartered Institute In Procurement and Supply (CIPS)
People who are working or intend to work in procurement industry and need a qualification to do so or to up skill and move to the next level of their career.
Occupational Certificate: Project Manager
The purpose of this qualification is to prepare a learner to operate as a Project Manager. A Project Manager applies knowledge of project management to achieve project objectives in a specific field of application. A qualified learner will be able to: Initiate a project to address specific project objectives.• Plan and prepare the delivery of a project. • Execute and control the delivery of a pro…
Occupational Certificate: Community Development Worker
The purpose of this qualification is to prepare a learner to operate as a Community Development Worker. A Community Development Worker collects and provides relevant information from and to communities and builds social cohesion within the community, in order to support the development and implementation of community development initiatives and processes.
End User Computing (Includ.MS Office)
Prospective full-time students who have not gained access to Faculty of Business National Diploma offerings.
Ideal for those with inadequate computer literacy
Prospective students in excess of capped quotas,
Prospective students endeavouring to register late and those who do not meet specific entry requirements for certain ND offerings.
Financial Computing / Basic Bookkeeping Pastel Accounting
The aims of the course is to provide people who are not trained financial specialists who are required to, or have an interest in, creating financial accounts in a business environment.
It is specially targeted at small business managers or aspiring middle managers from all non-financial spheres of the organization.
This course is also particularly suited to current or aspirant bookkeepers wh…
Finance for Non-Finance Managers
The aim of the course is to provide people who are not trained financial specialists yet are required to, or have an interest in, understanding and interpreting corporate financial information, with the necessary skills to do so. It is specially targeted at middle managers or aspiring middle managers from all non-financial spheres of the organization. This course would also be particularly suited…
Effective Supervisory Management
Supervisors wishing to improve their skills and anyone with aspirations towards supervision. It is essential for people such as supervisors to understand the basic mechanics of the business they are in, if they are to appreciate and understand the part that their jobs play in the general running of the company. This course is intended to introduce and provide them with basic knowledge on the fund…
Occupational Certificate: Valuer (Municipal Property Assessor)
The purpose of this qualification is to prepare a learner to operate as a Municipal Property Assessor. A Municipal Property Assessor (MPA) provides a number of services and support services within a municipality. They coordinate the implementation of the Municipal Property Rates Act (MPRA) in order to ensure compliance, collect data on properties determine the market value of a single residential…
Occupational Certificate: Office Administrator – Public Service Administrator
The purpose of this qualification is to prepare and equip Public Administrators with key skills and knowledge needed to effectively operate in the public sector. It is designed to prepare these learners on how to manage, organise, and analyse the effects of government policies, and to use business and statistical tools to solve public sector challenges in an ethical manner. Learners will develop…
Occupational Certificate: Occupational Trainer
The purpose of this qualification is to prepare a learner to: Plan, prepare for, coordinate, implement and evaluate learning programmes to achieve occupational trainee competence. A qualified learner will be able to: Establish the profile, special needs and barriers to learning of learners within the specified requirements of the training programme. Prepare, adapt and align learning materials and…
National Certificate: Generic Management
A person acquiring this qualification will be able to manage first line managers in an organisational entity. First line managers may include team leaders, supervisors, junior managers, section heads and foremen. The focus of this qualification is to enable learners to develop competence in a range of knowledge, skills, attitudes and values including: Initiating, developing, implementing and eval…
Occupational Certificate: Community Development Practitioner
The purpose of this qualification is to prepare a learner to operate as a Community Development Practitioner. A Community Development Practitioner acts as a change agent to add value to community development practice by exploring and coordinating networks and partnerships. Conducts community-based research to inform interventions, aligned to relevant legal and regulatory frameworks. Plans, design…
Professional Development for PA's and Secretaries
On completion of this short course, the individual will be able to:
Interpret, understand and apply Labour Law applicable to their work environment.
Understand and apply the law when drafting or interpreting contracts.
Assess their human relations skills and apply techniques to improve these skills.
Communicate effectively to obtain desirable results.
Understand how conflict occurs and how…
Credit Management 3
Fully qualified and knowledgeable credit controllers and credit manager are in demand by all businesses and can expect to be suitably rewarded. There is recognition by commerce and industry that in-house training of staff on systems and procedures requires to be supplemented continually, because of the dynamic changes in the environment. Existing practices and procedures need to be changed to com…
Credit Management 1
Fully qualified and knowledgeable credit controllers and credit manager are in demand by all businesses and can expect to be suitably rewarded. There is recognition by commerce and industry that in-house training of staff on systems and procedures requires to be supplemented continually, because of the dynamic changes in the environment. Existing practices and procedures need to be changed to com…
Business Communication
The course is designed for prospective full-time students who have not gained access to Faculty of Business National Diploma offerings and those who do not meet specific entry requirements for certain ND offerings.
Occupational Certificate: Career Development Information Officer
Target Audience
The purpose of this qualification is to prepare a learner to operate as a Career Development Information Officer. A Career Development Information Officer provides individuals and groups with information about career choices and how to access their career paths that will empower them to make informed career related decisions.
A qualified learner will be able to: • Provide career…
Management Development Programme (MDP)
Current practicing managers and supervisors/ team leaders who lack formal managerial qualifications
Occupational Certificate: Supply Chain Practitioner
Target Audience
The purpose of this qualification is to prepare a learner to operate as a Supply Chain Practitioner who can plan, organise, execute, control and coordinate the activities and inter-relationships across the supply chain environment.A qualified learner will be able to: * Provide environmental scanning assistance for effective supply chain operations. * Implement supply chain operat…
Business Management/ Entrepreneurship
Owners and managers of small and medium businesses who need to improve their managerial skills. Those considering starting their own business.
Labour Relations
Persons who successfully complete this course will be able to: • Use their practical and academic knowledge of South African labour law in order to understand the role that legislation plays in the workplace. • Prevent or deal with legal/labour relations’ problems that arise as a result of inappropriate/illegal employment conditions.
Stores Management
The course covers all aspects relating to the basic functions needed to manage a warehouse which is contained in five study modules.To equip candidates to gain a qualification to manage a warehouse or distribution centre.
Supply Chain Management Module 1 & 2
There is a worldwide need for supply chain management (SCM) practitioners because as organizations become larger and more complex; they need their primary and support activities to be incorporated in such a way that the varying wants of stakeholders may be appeased. In essence, an effective supply chain manager is a specialist in logistics, quality assurance and a generalist in management and par…
Project Management 1
Target Audience
• New project managers or persons who wish to make a career of managing projects. • Persons concerned with change management and the management of projects in the private or public sectors. • Project leaders and managers who wish to formalise or improve their project management skills and qualifications.
Marketing Management
Target Audience
Employees who want to move into a marketing direction.
Members of any organisation who want to understand how marketing can benefit their organisation and how to apply sound marketing principles.
Entrepreneurs and aspirant entrepreneurs.
Management 1
Target Audience
Managers with one to three years of experience. Those aspiring to, or recently appointed to, supervisory or junior management positions.Entrepreneurs. Non-profit organizations, unions, youth and community leaders.
Human Resource Management
Participants should be able to:
Understand the field of HRM and the role it plays in meeting changing organisations’ needs.
Understand how effective management can contribute to organisational growth.
Have insight into critical human resources areas affecting organisations in SA today, e.g.affirmative action legislation.
Understand how individual differences impact on behaviour in t…
Credit Management 2
Fully qualified and knowledgeable credit controllers and credit manager are in demand by all businesses and can expect to be suitably rewarded. There is recognition by commerce and industry that in-house training of staff on systems and procedures requires to be supplemented continually, because of the dynamic changes in the environment. Existing practices and procedures need to be changed to com…
Professional Diploma in Procurement and Supply: Chartered Institute In Procurement and Supply (CIPS)
The learning outcome within a unit sets out what a learner is expected to know, understand, or be able to do as a result of a process of learning.