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This paper introduces a framework for evaluating consumer payments opportunities. It looks at the drivers of change in the way consumers pay and the enablers of change in the way consumers pay. The cornerstones of the payments industry and fundamental change in consumer behaviour are also described. The paper discusses the 'Big 5' game changing payments innovations of the past 50 years in South Africa, and goes on to suggest how the framework could be used to make a prediction about the future of consumer payments in Africa. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on entrepreneurial history. One of the more interesting problems for business historians in Great Britain is why so little business history is taught at undergraduate level. The most that seems to happen is that an odd question or two on company history or on entrepreneurship is inserted in a finals examination paper usually in the subject specialism of economic history. There are few if any complete undergraduate courses devoted to the study of business history and even at post-graduate level it can scarcely be called a flourishing industry. At a conference held at Cranfield in March, 1973, on the theme of business histories and their use in management education it was apparently Manchester Polytechnic rather than a university college who presented a scheme of work destined for undergraduate students yet the distinguished university contributors among business historians who attended that conference would presumably hardly agree that business history was somehow academically at a level different from their own.

The article focuses on the third wave, a collaborative autonomy-based educational reforms in Victoria. Needs of enhancing the complementary leadership skills in the principals of emerging autonomous schools in Victoria, role of the educational reform in enhancing the culture of schools as well as the impact of third wave in improving the interaction between schools and society are discussed. Impact of these reforms on the students' learning is also discussed.