First, as Vice-Chancellor B. Pityana of UNISA has noted, … In any society, …prosperity presupposes a well-equipped and trained source of human capital, capable of facilitating the required development, and there can be no doubt that in that sense, higher education is a national 1 resource.
In South Africa, moreover, … there is now an urgent need for higher education institutions to respond in 2 a more targeted fashion to national growth and development needs. We at Cranefield anticipated this requirement early on, constituting ourselves as a targeted “College of Project and Programme Management”.