Posts Tagged ‘accreditation’
Building reputation through quality management of accreditations and ranking
Increased visibility from international accreditations and rankings helps schools to get on the international map and benchmark themselves on best practices.
Read MoreCelebrating small wins and calling bold actions
Anne S Tsui asks, is business research finally reconnecting with the business world?
Read MorePractising what we preach: Online learning for EFMD Programme Accreditation
Turning multiple in-person, international seminars into one online event. Robert Galliers, Jens Petter Tøndel, and Barbara Sporn reflect on their experience of this year’s EFMD Programme Accreditation workshops
Read MoreEFMD acreditación de programas: pasado, presente y futuro
Tras quince años de exitosa acreditación de programas bajo la etiqueta EPAS, la Junta Directiva de la EFMD se reunió en la primavera de 2019 para debatir la futura dirección del programa y decidió cambiar la marca y seguir desarrollando el EPAS para convertirlo en
EFMD Accredited. ¿Por qué este cambio?
EFMD Programme Accreditation: Past, present and future
After fifteen years of successful programme accreditation under the EPAS label, the EFMD Board convened in the spring of 2019 to discuss the programme’s future direction and decided to rebrand and further develop EPAS into EFMD Accredited. Why that move?
Read MoreMore than just compliance
The vast majority of new hires nowadays learn the fundamentals of quality assurance “on the job”, by observing and imitating peers. The Quality Assurance Academy offers an alternative (but complementary) pathway.
Read MoreEPAS network: Forerunner of changes
Mario Spremić describes how a Croatian business faculty has used EPAS (EFMD Accredited) both as a way to develop itself and also as an international framework and proactive platform for exchanging experiences and ideas.
Read MoreMaintaining the gold standard
Ulrich Hommel and Michael Osbaldeston celebrate two decades of EQUIS and look forward to another 20 years of opportunities.
Read MoreEFMD Deans Across Frontiers
As EFMD launches its Deans Across Frontiers initiative, Professor Chris Greensted looks at its mission of promoting excellence in business and management education worldwide.
Read MoreAccreditation: How to get it right
María Helena Jaén outlines how to make the accreditation process as pain-free and rewarding as possible.
Read MoreTowards a coherent portfolio of quality
Chris Greensted explains how the EFMD quality improvement systems (EQUIS, EPAS (EFMD Accredited) and EDAF) are now designed as a portfolio.
Read MorePressures to conform
Peter McKiernan and David Wilson argue that business schools should stop copying each other and start rediscovering their diversity.
Read MoreIntended Learning Outcomes: Friend or foe?
Intended Learning Outcomes are a key aspect of programme accreditation, yet they seem to cause many schools and programme directors considerable difficulty or even resistance.
Read MoreDiversity is dead. Long live diversity!
An increasing number of pundits argue that the business school sector has entered a process of homogenisation – that diversity as we know it is dying a slow and inescapable death.
Read MoreThe challenges facing business school accreditation
Business schools have been among the most successful higher education institutions of the last 50 years. Yet now, they face many serious challenges that, as Michael Osbaldeston explains, have deep implications for accreditation bodies.
Read MoreGoing from EPAS to EQUIS and AACSB … and from AACSB to EPAS
Anne-Joëlle Philippart explains how the mix of EFMD and AACSB accreditation models helped achieve a rapid improvement of the quality assurance system at HEC-Liège.
Read MoreQuality street: The sweet side of accreditation
The business school race for accreditations shows no sign of losing momentum. On the contrary, the number of schools entering their first accreditation process remains steady, and those embarking on the long-term work of maintaining their accreditations continue to grow.
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