Pupils at a South African college studying a specially conceived course are being groomed to enter the platinum jewellery business.

The Seda (Small Enterprise Development Agency) Platinum Incubator at the Orbit Further Education Training College in Rustenburg has an intake of 18 students, who are being schooled in the business of platinum jewellery manufacture.

Students on the three-year course are taught business skills such as project management and manufacturing services.

Gordon Freer, Centre Manager at the Seda platinum incubator, told diamonds.net: "The aim is to develop entrepreneurial ability among the students, so that they can eventually develop their own businesses."

For the first two years of the course's life, its content and programme of lectures will be overseen by Orbit, after which point it will be run by the college itself.

The incubator provides services to six small businesses, with plans to expand its client base to become "a one-stop-shop to provide design manufacture and packaging facilities for platinum jewellers," Diamondnet. reports.

Source: S. Africa: Incubator Sows Seeds For Platinum Jewelry Growth, 26/08/07

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