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Message from the Dean
GENERAL INFORMATION
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Welcome message from the Dean
Welcome to CPUT and the vibrant Faculty of Business and Management Sciences!
We are absolutely delighted that you have made the choice to join CPUT as a student in our Faculty of Business and Management Sciences (FBMS). As you continue with your journey, we are proud to be your partner in your quest to reach your goals of intellectual growth, self-discovery and personal development.
You are joining the largest university in the Western Cape and a major faculty within CPUT. We are proud of our achievements over the years and continue to strive to provide academic excellence; operating at the cutting edge of our disciplines; creating and disseminating knowledge through high level research. Our students are taught by academics who are both actively engaged in industry, ensuring high programmatic relevance; and who are pushing forward the boundaries of disciplinespecific knowledge.
Our faculty works hard to create a caring and supportive culture and an affirming environment which values and celebrates diversity through respecting and celebrating individual differences. You will have the opportunity to meet, interact with and learn from young people who all come from very different social, economic, geographic, linguistic and cultural backgrounds. It is this diversity that we embrace as it is key to innovation and academic excellence. We also endeavour to live our values that we cherish deeply in an institutional environment that is supportive and welcoming to all.
Orientation is the first step in this extraordinary journey. The FBMS Orientation Programme is designed not only to provide you with course-related information but is also meant to expose you to the wide array of services and opportunities provided within our Faculty and CPUT. As we are currently navigating Orientation in an online platform, and ensuring that all safety protocols are in place, we invite you to take the journey with us and be navigated by the team of staff members in your department. All the necessary links to your online sessions for the programme for which you are registered will be provided by the team of staff members in your department and be shared on the Faculty’s website.
During the online orientation you will have the opportunity to meet senior officials within the faculty as well as the university; learn about strategies for successfully integrating into university life; getting involved in campus activities online, making wise choices; together with receiving valuable, practical information on policies and programmes in support of your overall success. The overarching goal of this programme is to set you up for academic success, helping and supporting you to realize your dreams, goals and aspirations. This booklet thus includes a great deal of important information which you should read carefully, and if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact one of the staff members or students involved in the Orientation Programme.
We wish you much success with your studies!
