Black students spend more on hair and beauty, Indian students eat out the most, coloured students splurge on fashion more than any other ethnic group, and white students spend up to three times as much on cigarettes and alcohol. 23 Mar 2012
Read more >>BlackBerry took home top honours for the Best 360 Degrees Campaign at the Student Village Makoya Youth Awards this year. 2 Nov 2011
Read more >>Winning youth marketing and graduate recruitment campaigns on South African campuses will be in the spotlight soon when Student Village presents its 2011 Makoya Youth Awards in Johannesburg. 20 Oct 2011
Read more >>Budding South African student entrepreneurs with their own up-and-running businesses are being offered the opportunity of lifetime - and a share of US$150 000 in cash and prizes - if they nominate themselves or another student for this year's Global Student Entrepreneur Awards (GSEA). 11 Aug 2011
Read more >>One of the most important conferences for women undergraduates held yearly to facilitate networking and generally improve skills development will take place in August and bring together the top female students in the country. 11 Aug 2011
Read more >>South Africa's most influential annual graduate recruitment and career development publication - GradX - is being distributed to final-year students at South African campuses now. 11 Aug 2011
Read more >>Students want marketers targeting them via their mobile phones to keep it simple, cost-effective, and easy to access, as SMS and Facebook are their preferred communication channels. 21 Apr 2011
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A new discount card which offers students awesome deals at crazy prices will see retailers reaping considerable rewards. 10 Mar 2011
Read more >>What do OMG!, WTF! and Spud have in common? 2 Dec 2010
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Due to overwhelming interest from student business owners and community leaders across South Africa, the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards (GSEA), a programme of the Entrepreneurs' Organisation (EO), will open nominations to collegiate student entrepreneurs and receive applications until the deadline closing on 1 October 2010. 15 Sep 2010
Read more >>Student Village lifts the lid on student spending habits with its first ever Student Spending Survey. 28 Apr 2010
Read more >>South Africa's roughly 800 000 tertiary education students are the most wired yet. 9 Dec 2009
Read more >>Do you want to connect with the youth this festive season? If the answer is “Yes” then you and your brand are going to have to go mobile to catch and keep their attention. 12 Nov 2009
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Student Village, the leading youth marketing solutions provider on SA campuses, is calling all switched-on, seriously fun-loving movie and gaming fanatics to pull an ‘all-nighter' of a different kind - the 2009 Annual Movie Marathon! 17 Sep 2009
Read more >>Are you a student entrepreneur looking to break into the big time? Then you should enter the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards (GSEAs) and pit your business wits against other young up-and-coming tycoons. 15 Sep 2009
Read more >>Inspiring, mind-altering, phenomenal... these are just a few of the superlatives students at the Student Village Women's Leadership Conference used to describe their experiences at the events held in Cape Town and Johannesburg this year. 4 Sep 2009
Read more >>The hugely popular Women's Leadership Conference (WLC), organised by premier youth marketing services provider Student Village, is set to soar high in 2009. “This year's WLC will be the sixth of its kind and will be held in two separate events in Cape Town and Johannesburg at the end of August, with selected candidates from Durban being especially flown in to attend,” says Marc Kornberger, Director at Student Village. “The Women's Leadership Conference is a prestigious, ‘by-invite-only' event that provides a mentoring network to a select group of extremely talented young women from universities across the country, whilst at the same time affording sponsors an inspirational platform into the hearts and minds of the future female leaders of SA.” 6 Aug 2009
Read more >>Student Village, South Africa's premier youth marketing services provider, has upped the ante on its BBBEE status by receiving a Level 3 rating. 6 Aug 2009
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Ronen Aires, visionary CEO of South Africa's premier youth marketing services provider, Student Village, wove his particular brand of magic once again when addressing the Gordon Institute of Business Science's Spirit of Youth 2009 entrepreneurship event in June. 5 Aug 2009
Read more >>www.gradx.net - Student Village's graduate recruitment and career development website - now has a fresh new look and loads of extra functionality for students and corporate alike. 13 May 2009
Read more >> This year's first quarterly issue of
Village Voice, the hot and happening student newspaper from Student Village, SA's largest student networking portal, has hit campuses countrywide and students are loving it. 7 Apr 2009
Read more >>Student Village and the Converse Brand Ambassadors, assisted by Youth Dynamix, caused major hype and excitement across nine university campuses recently with an unexpected and generous handout of Converse shoes as early exam/Christmas gifts. 9 Dec 2008
Read more >>SA's hottest interactive money trading game, Student Village's Investment Challenge 2008, has come to a thundering close and the winners are standing proud. The Investment Challenge game involves each entrant being given R100,000 in virtual money to use for trading on the JSE. 8 Dec 2008
Read more >>“The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the people who do.” This is according to Erik Vermeulen, the co-founder of Leader Motivations Systems, who spoke at the recent VillagePro event held in Johannesburg. The event focused on teaching young professionals how to thrive, as opposed to just survive, in the workplace through building their personal resilience. 31 Oct 2008
Read more >>Playboy bunnies, superheros and stepbrothers formed part of the mix at the annual 5fm Movie Marathon this weekend. Student Village, NuMetro and Powerplay were the other cornerstones of the partnership that makes this such a sought-after event each year. 29 Sep 2008
Read more >>The hottest online investment game for varsity students - the Student Village Investment Challenge - is open for business and the competition is already heating up! 26 Sep 2008
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Village Voice, the hot new student newspaper, hits SA campuses again in October. Copies of the previous two issues have been snapped up eagerly by varsity students anxious to find out what's hot and happening on their campuses as soon as possible. 16 Sep 2008
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Around 800 top female students attended this year's Women's Leadership Conference, organised by Student Village, South Africa's leading youth marketing solutions provider. Now in its fifth year, it is the most sought after by-invite-only event on female students' career-planning calendars. 2 Sep 2008
Read more >>“What are your dreams? Are they about doing what you do? Are they about conquering personal challenges?” These were among the questions posed to delegates by Angela Burton, Absa's executive director of marketing and communications, at the Village Pro event held in Johannesburg this week. 31 Aug 2008
Read more >>“Converse is the coolest brand and they let someone like me speak on their behalf!” So says Bouwer Bosch, a North West University student and one of 20 campus brand ambassadors (CBAs) identified and chosen by Student Village to work their magic across 10 campuses countrywide. 20 Aug 2008
Read more >>Entries are now open for the Women's Leadership Conference (WLC), an initiative aimed at unearthing the full potential of tomorrow's women leaders. The Women's Leadership Conference is an annual event organised and hosted by Student Village, South Africa's leading youth marketing solutions provider. 10 Jun 2008
Read more >>Recent graduates and young employees are invited to attend Village Pro's 'Managing the Generation Gap' event; a fun, interactive look at how young employees can understand and manage the conflicts that can arise between them and their older managers - for
free. 20 May 2008
Read more >>Personal branding was under the spotlight at the latest Village Pro event, held at the JSE in Johannesburg earlier this week. 31 Mar 2008
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The year's hottest online investment game for tertiary education students has been won by industrial psychology student, Dorron Aremband from Wits University, who took top honours after quadrupling his initial investment over a three-month period. 11 Dec 2007
Read more >>Cape Town's urban landscape is set for a major shake-up with the arrival of CapeTownLive - a new urban culture and lifestyle Web site for city slickers between 21 and 35 years old. 15 Nov 2007
Read more >>Student Village's new graduate development programme offers much-needed support to both graduates and human resource professionals in the workplace. Village Pro, which will launch in Johannesburg and Cape Town in 2008, will help graduates develop the soft skills that are critical for young talent which aspires to thrive rather than merely survive as they begin to build their careers. 29 Oct 2007
Read more >>Student Village has redefined social networking for students with its new slicker and sexier website, which brings loads more functionality and fun to everyone's fingertips. 27 Aug 2007
Read more >>Copies of GradX - the leading local graduate recruitment and development annual - hits campus this week, taking a wealth of pertinent information to final-year tertiary education students across South Africa. 7 Aug 2007
Read more >>Sunday 8 July marks the start of a brand new sponsorship deal for Student Village and 5FM DJ, Euphonik. Euphonik's show, My House, which airs on 5FM on Sundays between 8pm and 10pm, has a strong appeal to campus students around South Africa. 5 Jul 2007
Read more >>Students are streaming to Student Village's revamped web site -
www.studentvillage.co.za - which was repositioned earlier this year as the social networking place of choice for local students. 22 Nov 2006
Read more >>A Campus Auto Expo - aimed at taking an interactive, exciting motoring experience to students on local tertiary campuses - will be hosted by leading youth market solutions provider, Student Village, early next year. 23 Oct 2006
Read more >>Top female students will gather later this month to attend the third annual Women's Leadership Conference, aimed at enabling these dynamic young leaders to develop their full potential. 17 Aug 2006
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GradX, Student Village's annual career planning magazine for final-year students, has again been enthusiastically received at university campuses across the country. 7 Aug 2006
Read more >>Music and mirth were on the menu last week at the official opening of the Village Coffee Shop on Wits' West Campus. 15 May 2006
Read more >>A student media company that can cover all marketing and promotional requirements at South African tertiary education institutions has arrived! 3 Mar 2006
Read more >>Charl le Roux, a third year accountancy student at the University of the Free State, has won this year's Student Village Investment Challenge. 23 Nov 2005
Read more >>Andrew Twala, a 25-year-old risk management student at Unisa, has been awarded the Student Entrepreneur Award for 2005. 23 Oct 2005
Read more >>Students who dream about becoming super stock brokers, but haven't had the capital to test their talents can do so now - at no personal financial risk - in the Student Village Investment Challenge 2005. 18 Sep 2005
Read more >>The South African student environment is rife with young entrepreneurs that are not only studying but running their own businesses at the same time. Youth marketing solutions provider Student Village has launched the Student Entrepreneur Awards 2005 to recognise these trailblazers. 15 Sep 2005
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In August 2004, Student Village, leaders in youth marketing, were proud to co-ordinate a series of Women's Leadership conferences. These conferences were held in Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban and targeted premier women students with dynamic leadership potential. 3 Aug 2005
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In the first week of July, users of the highly successful
www.mycareer.co.za will notice that it will undergo a complete facelift. 6 Jul 2005
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The final stretch of the year is just around the corner and with that most students are focusing all their attention on passing the year, but for all the final year graduates all over South Africa there is the additional worry about what's going to happen to them when they graduate. 26 Jun 2005
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Student Village, leaders in youth marketing, launched GradX - The Ultimate Graduate Guide - in August 2004. The magazine had a fantastic first year, enjoying enormous popularity among students and high acclaim among sponsors. GradX is back in 2005, bigger and better. 17 Mar 2005
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In August 2004, Student Village, leaders in youth marketing, were proud to co-ordinate a series of Women's Leadership conferences. These conferences were held in Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban and targeted premier women students with dynamic leadership potential. 2 Sep 2004
Read more >>As a company that is involved in the graduate development market, you know how tough the competition has become. The 'War for Talent' is on in South Africa like never before and the search for talented, high quality graduates is getting ever more intense. 17 Aug 2004
Read more >>Student Village, leaders in youth marketing, launched a new website,
www.mycareer.co.za. The website is a comprehensive career information resource for scholars and students. 3 Aug 2004
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