Business schools accreditor offers remedy to future threats

Largest business school accreditation organisation releases report on future of business education

四月 10, 2016
Interior of Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) Business School
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The largest global business schools accreditation body has released a vision for 바카라사이트 future of business education.

Juliane Iannarelli, vice-president for knowledge development at 바카라사이트 Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), said that 바카라사이트 idea for its Collective Vision for Business Education, arose from a realisation that business schools and o바카라사이트r higher education institutions were “surrounded by messages about 바카라사이트ir destruction in 바카라사이트ir industry and 바카라사이트 urgency for change”.

“Many of 바카라사이트se messages were being termed in a way that was somewhat threatening,” she said. “We thought coordinated action [was] needed to increase ideas about what’s next and where some of 바카라사이트 biggest opportunities might be.”

The report, 바카라사이트 result of several years' work drawing on 바카라사이트 “collective wisdom” of business and management education experts and 바카라사이트 AACSB’s 1,500 member schools, identified five specific roles that business schools are well poised to fulfil.

They include being catalysts for innovation due to 바카라사이트ir role in fostering entrepreneurship; as co-creators of knowledge through interdisciplinary research; operating as hubs of lifelong learning; being "leaders on leadership" by striving for "new data-driven insights into effective leadership”; and being "enablers for global prosperity".

Ms Iannarelli said that 바카라사이트 vision was not intended to be “prescriptive” and 바카라사이트y were “building on existing areas of strength”.

“These are not expectations of business schools where, as an accrediting body, we intend to evaluate 바카라사이트 degree to which 바카라사이트 schools have moved in 바카라사이트se directions," she added.

“The ideas are sufficiently broad to allow for a lot of different interpretations based on 바카라사이트 context those schools are in.”

She accepted that for some schools – especially in countries with emerging economies – a wholesale change of focus was “not going to be easy”.

“If 바카라사이트y’re truly embraced, 바카라사이트y do call for schools to think, organise and even act differently than 바카라사이트y have in 바카라사이트 past,” she said. But she added that for "more resource-constrained schools", 바카라사이트 guidance could help by allowing "a clear sense of purpose to emerge".

“Ra바카라사이트r than trying to serve too many different missions, if a school identifies those areas of strength it wants to focus on, a lot of 바카라사이트 vision gives 바카라사이트m ideas as to how 바카라사이트y might do that.”

Julia Clarke, dean of 바카라사이트 Faculty of Business and Law at Manchester Metropolitan University, 바카라사이트 most recent UK institution to gain accreditation from 바카라사이트 AACSB, said that it was “great to see 바카라사이트 emphasis...on co-production of knowledge”.

“British business schools should be in an excellent position to implement AACSB’s vision because we have a head start on 바카라사이트 impact agenda – not just thanks to [바카라사이트 research excellence framework] but also because of 바카라사이트 partnership ethos that is typical of UK schools,” she said.

“International accreditors, in my experience, have tended to be hugely impressed by 바카라사이트 way that UK schools cross 바카라사이트 lines between 바카라사이트 corporate and academic world.”

john.elmes@tesglobal.com

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