GetSmarter Blog

By Anna Malczyk

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University of Cape Town’s Law@Work department and specialist online training company GetSmarter are pleased to announce the fourth presentation of the popular part-time UCT (Law@Work) Business Writing and Legal Documents course. The 10-week course, which starts on 30th of August 2010, is presented entirely online via GetSmarter’s sophisticated Internet training platform.

Companies are increasingly turning into project-based organisations. Projects allow businesses to get tasks done in the most efficient, effective and affordable way, but being a good project manager takes skill and knowledge. The UCT Project Administration course covers every aspect of starting, staffing, planning, troubleshooting and budgeting for projects, providing you with the practical tools to become an effective and valuable project manager. The course is based on the textbook used to study for the Project Management Professional exam of Project Management Institute, and will prepare you to take the exam if you choose to do it.

South Africa’s leading trade book publisher, Random House Struik, is partnering with GetSmarter, a specialist online training company, to present a second run of the hugely successful Random House Struik Creative Writing course. The 10-week, part-time course is presented entirely online via GetSmarter’s tried and tested Internet training platform.

Over 5 million South Africans are connected to the internet. They represent so the affluent sectors of society, and ae therefore the best people for any marketer to target. However, marketers trained in traditional advertising media are missing out because they don’t know how to approach online marketing.