Professional development
New Webinar Series: Business Proofing of Business Schools
“The Business Proofing of Business Schools” webinar series will be launched today. It is presented in partnership by XOLAS, GBSN and EFMD GN. Initially planned as a 5-part series, the webinars will explore how the pandemic is affecting the business side of business school operations. How can executive teams deal with the short-term fall-out of…
Read MoreKnowing me, knowing you – new research to help business school communicators better understand the challenges and strategies of reaching external stakeholders
EFMD is calling upon external relations, marketing and communications teams to take part in new research into how different business schools are communicating and how they compare to their peers. Working with higher education consultancy CarringtonCrisp and business education communications specialists Roe Communications, the research will address: The biggest barriers and challenges to their work,…
Read MoreA pivotal time for business school leaders
Leadership is a concept in perpetual evolution, a mobile target. Being adaptable is, therefore, crucial to effectively navigate the ever-changing political, economic, and cultural contexts. Even though people in leading positions are often well prepared and endowed for the required level of adaptability, the last couple of months have taken the demands on our leaders…
Read MoreValue blueprint
The very last and concluding episode of the Quality Assurance Academy presents the HOW TO webinars, with Manuela Brusoni, Director of Quality, Accreditation and Benchmarking, SDA Bocconi School of Management, Christina Green, Head of Quality Management at TUM School of Management, and Claire Thouary, Founder of QACE UP brought three different perspectives on the value…
Read MoreDon’t let the dean escape!
The penultimate episode of the Quality Assurance Academy presents the HOW TO webinars, with Thomas Cleff, Dean of Pforzheim Business School at Pforzheim University, offered the unique opportunity to discuss and hear insights on accreditation from someone usually representing the very starting point of the quality assurance chain within the institution. Being a dean, you…
Read MoreA business school for society: a school at the heart of its ecosystem
By Agnes Plessis Brandi, Head of Sales and Company Relationships at Grenoble Ecole de Management and Mark Smith, Dean of Faculty and Professor in Human Resources at Grenoble Ecole de Management. It is essential for an organisation to be firmly anchored in its ecosystem – not least business schools, since supporting organisational performance is part of…
Read MoreCould Covid-19 be the push that Europe needs for unconditional basic income?
As the wide-ranging implications of the coronavirus pandemic become clear, renewed calls have been made – by academics, economists and politicians left and right – for an unconditional basic income (UBI) that would guarantee individuals regular payments, from the state, regardless of their economic activity. Beyond its potential benefits in normal times, there are suggestions that UBI could mitigate some of the most worrying…
Read MoreThe importance of being… prepared
In the sixth episode of the Quality Assurance Academy presents the HOW TO webinars, Kirsteen Daly, Accreditations, Rankings and Communication Manager, University of Glasgow, Adam Smith Business School shed more light onto the backstage of an accreditation visit – from planning and preparations to managing your staff. When asked about the key things to always…
Read MoreOnline Learning: Using the RENT framework to develop Scalable Personalisation
A recent EOCCS webinar input by Brent Gregory of the University of New England, Armidale, NSW, described the RENT framework. The framework is an educational view of the roles of management (Adizes, 1988) and an enabling mechanism for Scalable Personalisation (SP). SP is where the student learning journey is tailored to align with student needs…
Read MoreThe power of storytelling
In the already fifth episode of the Quality Assurance Academy presents the HOW TO webinars Isabelle Fagnot, Associate Dean Quality & Accreditation, KEDGE Business School, and Geralyn McClure Franklin, Interim Dean, University of Louisiana at Lafayette B.I. Moody III College of Business Administration discussed the ins and outs of writing an accreditation report. Starting with…
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