Graduate Employability App (GEA)

South Africa recently announced an unemployment rate of 35% with 12,000,000 South Africans unemployed. Graduates leaving university have difficulty in finding work due to the current economy. The GEA was developed in 2020 to enable all THENSA member institutions to track their graduates and to offer graduates with vital information and support towards employment and…

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DSI-THENSA Collaborative Project

THENSA’s capacity building programmes below support and capacitate Universities of Technology and previously disadvantaged universities to build and strengthen research capacity to ensure that the research outputs and assets can be commercialised. These activities will contribute to job creation, the design and development of new jobs in line with the 4IR and reducing poverty and…

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THENSA-THEA International Tourism, Research & Training Project

The Technology Higher Education Network of South Africa (THENSA) was awarded a grant by the Irish Embassy in South Africa to establish six Research and Training Clusters, including the Tourism Research and Training cluster. Tourism Research and Training is an important offering by THENSA member institutions, and the training programme/qualifications curricula and work integrated learning…

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THENSA Online Entrepreneurship Programme

The THENSA Online Entrepreneurship Programme is a SAQA aligned programme endorsed by the Munster Technological University (MTU) in Ireland. This entrepreneurship programme gives the youth of our country a new way of looking at the world of work, rise of new business start-ups, significant impact on the economies, job creations and community upliftment. The pilot…

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THENSA Consortium of Business Units and Science Parks

The aim of the THENSA Consortium of Science Parks and Business Units (TCSB) is to create a consolidated and combined higher education entity to promote collaboration amongst member institutions in terms of innovation and enterprise development, supporting local economic development through effective knowledge generation and transfer, and promoting competitive advantages through combined resource generation efforts.…

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THENSA-THEA Research Clusters

In October 2019, the Technological Higher Education Network South Africa (THENSA) and THEA hosted a research colloquium involving 9 member institutions of THENSA and 5 Irish Higher Education institutions from the THEA consortium. A total of 80 academics participated in the colloquium. The purpose of the colloquium was to identify the potential and strategic research…

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