The continued growth and popularity of the Executive MBA across the globe reflects the attractive rewards for both aspirants and their employers, ensuring both accelerated professional development and enhanced corporate performance.
The University of Greenwich, School of Business (U.K) and Apeejay Svran International College (ASIC), Greater Noida (India), the two global education providers are all set to join the forces to provide world class Management education to the executives.
While visiting the Apeejay Education Society (AES), Ms. Tessa Blackstone, Vice Chancellor of the University of Greenwich (U.K) and Mrs. Sushma Berlia, Vice President, (AES) worked on a Memorandum of Understanding between the two institutions. The MoU envisages:
• To jointly develop programmes, initially in the areas of Management, Computing and Information Technology, Architecture and Industrial Design, and explore the possibilities of introducing Short Term programmes.
• To promote Faculty Exchange programmes whereby members of each institution would conduct teaching, engage in curriculum development and researching each other’s faculty.
• To promote Student Exchange programmes and enable students from both Institutions to visit the other Institution. Students will have the opportunity of exploring new skills, especially being abroad, by undertaking projects and participating in symposia.
• To enable students from Apeejay Institute of Technology to progress further by opening new channels for themselves to study in U.K through the University of Greenwich. It will provide advice to students seeking admission to their programmes.
• To seek funding to support agreed projects for student and faculty exchange, course and curriculum development and other research initiatives from UKERI and other sources.
As part of the MoU, an MBA( Executive Management) is being launched with effect from October 1st, 2009. The course, which is a fairly intense Masters Level programme of 180 credits to be completed in about 18 months, will be jointly delivered by both the faculty of Greenwich and primarily ASIC, with three weeks module in UK. At the end of the MBA degree, the aspirants will be awarded by the University of Greenwich. With its significant service of online interaction in addition to two days classroom teaching, students will be benefiting from various Workshops, Case Studies, Business Research Projects and Practice at Industry.
According to Paul Stoneman, Programme Director, Business School, University of Greenwich, the other major features of this programme is its “holistic” nature, i.e., it invites at exploring the inter-relationships between them and their application to the real world of Business. The focus is not just on academic knowledge but also on all round personality development so that students leave the college not just with an “MBA”degree, but leave as a new person, with the competence and the confidence to apply their knowledge in the Business world.
To ensure that the students get the best out of this programme, it will be governed, based on the quality assurance system of the University of Greenwich and code of practice for the assurance of academic quality and standards in the higher education of European Association of Business Schools’ guidelines. Moreover, the U.K India Education and Research Initiative (UKIERI) have supported this initiative by providing technical and financial support to both the collaborating partners initially for a period of three years.
