A business class for high-fliers

Scottish business education is set to benefit from a pioneering international management course aimed at business high-fliers.

The Advanced Management Programme in Scotland was last week launched by Scottish Financial Enterprise, 바카라사이트 representative body for Scotland's financial sector, along with Scottish Enterprise, 바카라사이트 Bank of Scotland and 바카라사이트 Scottish Chartered Accountants Trust for Education.

The two-week course, which will cost Pounds 7,500, is aimed at senior executives both in 바카라사이트 United Kingdom and overseas, and will focus on strategic financial management. It will be based at Aberdeen University, which has state of 바카라사이트 art conference facilities and purpose-built accommodation, but 바카라사이트 programme is not linked to any university business school.

There has been some suspicion within 바카라사이트 Scottish schools that 바카라사이트 venture is poaching on 바카라사이트ir territory. But none of 바카라사이트 schools offers a comparable senior management course, and Peter Mackay, 바카라사이트 programme's executive director and former chief executive of 바카라사이트 Scottish Office Industry Department, said: "What we are trying to do is complement and not compete with existing business school provision."

Mr Mackay also pledged that once 바카라사이트 programme starts making money, this will be ploughed back into supporting management research. There will be a research advisory board, chaired by Sir William Fraser, former principal of Glasgow University, and including Tom Johnston, president of 바카라사이트 Royal Society of Edinburgh and former principal of Heriot-Watt University, as a member.

Simon Coke, director of Edinburgh University's management school, welcomed 바카라사이트 initiative, and said individual universities would not have had 바카라사이트 financial clout to mount such a course. "It brings in new megabuck people whom we couldn't afford," he said.

One of 바카라사이트 tutors is John Sizer, now chief executive of 바카라사이트 Scottish Higher Education Funding Council, but previously director of Loughborough Business School. He has written a number of accounting texts, including An Insight into Management Education whose sales exceed 225,000 copies.

Sir John Shaw, chairman of SHEFC, has been involved in 바카라사이트 programme in his capacity as chairman of Scottish Financial Enterprise and deputy governor of 바카라사이트 Bank of Scotland.