One Big Family!
MSM and Partners Gather to Promote Collaborative Business Education
On 26 and 27 February 2015 a historic Partners’ Conference was held at MSM's Campus in Maastricht. Over 30 participants took part, including 10 MSM's Partner institutions from countries such as Azerbaijan, China, Egypt, Germany, Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Suriname and Yemen. These are amongst the institutions with which MSM offer its internationally accredited Collaborative Global Education Programs, including the flagship MBA-degree.
(Photo: MSM Dean-Director Wim Naudé with representatives from MSM's Collaborative Global Education Program during the Partners Conference in Maastricht)
The Partners’ Conference is an MSM initiative to integrate efforts and to strengthen the quality of the joint programs. In particular, the conference was geared towards the introduction of a common Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) manual, adoption of revised and upgraded Education Examination Rules (EER) with new grading criteria, and introduction of a new-updated 70 ECTS curriculum for the MBA. Participants also received hands-on Moodle training, a Global Business Landscape workshop and discussed assessment methodologies supporting the programs’ quality assurance and accreditation policies and initiatives that MSMs Associate Dean for Quality Assurance is driving.
“Our Collaborative Global Education Programs are unique in being based on an uncompromising insistence on highest quality whilst remaining relevant and accessible to local and regional needs wherever in the world they are offered” said Ms. Katalin Kovacs, MSM's Associate Dean for Quality and Director of its Collaborative Global Education Programs.
(Photo: Ms. Katalin Kovacs (center) with the staff supporting the MEUSE-Institute’s Collaborative Global Education programs)
As of January 2015, all of MSMs Collaborative Global Education programs are administered from its newly established MEUSE-Institute (Maastricht EU Institute for the Study of Emerging Economies). The MEUSE-Institute has as overarching objective to pool MSMs knowledge in outreach MBA education, international projects and consultancies, applied research and mentoring in order to ‘Connect Europe and Emerging Economies Through Sustainable Business Development’.
