Dubai Knowledge Village (DKV) has become a regional hub for MBA students in March, as Manchester Business School Worldwide (MBSW – with its Middle East International Executive Centre in DKV) brings together several hundred MBA students from the Middle East and other MBSW international executive centres.
Leading faculty from the business school will deliver 21 MBA programme modules from ‘leadership’ to ‘HR management’ and ‘ethics, governance and competition policy’ to ‘managing construction firms’, as well as free public seminars. The MBA workshops run from March 6th to March 22nd.
Close to 500 MBA students from across the Middle East – all post experience, mature working professionals in middle to senior management positions – will descend on Dubai Knowledge Village for the ultimate challenge of testing their knowledge and progress against peers and visiting faculty – eminent academics and distinguished thought leaders in their fields, and many of whom are active business consultants – from the UK.
MBS Worldwide, through the Middle East International Executive Centre in Dubai, coordinates more than 700 MBA students in the region (around 50% of whom are resident on the UAE). The workshops allow students to meet with the school’s visiting faculty, who will lead sessions covering a range of MBA programme modules.
Randa Bessiso, Director Middle East at Manchester Business School Worldwide, comments:
“Our students have a guaranteed minimum of 250 hours of face to face contact with visiting faculty, which is close to the level enjoyed by full time MBA students on campus. Workshops are intense and demanding but also the most stimulating and productive elements of the programmes we offer to students in the region. Dubai is also becoming an increasingly popular destination for MBA students from our other international executive centres and we have students of 75 nationalities choosing to come to Dubai for these workshops.”
The Middle East International Executive Centre became the largest in the school’s international network following a record student intake, in July 2009. The international network consists of seven executive centres outside the UK (Hong Kong, Singapore, Shanghai, Malaysia, Caribbean, Brazil, Middle East). January 2010 the school has two intakes each year) was the largest single intake of students since the school opened in Dubai in 2006 and brought the total to over 700 MBA students in the region.
