Content written by Jonathan Moules and published by Financial Times on 2 January 19. MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: When the Association of MBAs, the accreditation body for postgraduate management education, gives its approval to a business school’s MBA programme, it does so for a maximum of five years. But when that same business school awards one of these degrees, it is … [Read more...]
An education: MBAs with Chinese characteristics
Content written and published by The News on 18 December 2018. MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: BEIJING: At business school with Chinese characteristics, undergraduate students debating how a company should deal with striking workers get a harsh reality check from their professor. While students suggest negotiating better benefits for the strikers -- a textbook answer -- … [Read more...]
MBA apprenticeships defended by their biggest provider
Content written by Pippa Allen-Kinross and published by FE Week on 14 December 18. MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: As management degree apprenticeships continue to hit the headlines, with sector leaders voicing growing concern about their rising costs, FE Week spoke to the biggest apprenticeship MBA provider to hear the other side of the story. Last year 550 people … [Read more...]
Shifting Focus of Publishers Signals Tough Times for Textbook Authors
Content written by Lindsay McKenzie and published by Inside Higher Ed. MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: Leading academic publishers are signing fewer textbook authors and instead channeling investments into digital courseware. Click Here to Read More Via Original Source … [Read more...]
Does Your Online M.B.A. Program Feel Too Remote? There’s a Bot For That
Content written by Amber Burton and published by The Wall Street Journal. MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: As business schools struggle to lure young professionals out of a hot U.S. job market, more are promoting online M.B.A.s with a twist: They are promising the convenience of a virtual degree, but with the social-networking benefits of a traditional one. Some programs … [Read more...]
How MOOC Collaboration Could Aid On-Campus Teaching and Learning
Content written by Daniel Seaton and published by Inside Higher Ed. MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: Creating a sharing economy for MOOC content among universities in open online consortiums wouldn’t be simple but could have enormous benefits for those institutions and others, Daniel Seaton writes. Click Here to Read More Via Original Source … [Read more...]