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News Release from: Manchester Business School Worldwide
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 15 August 2006
Business school sets up regional centre
in Dubai
Manchester Business School Worldwide sets up regional centre in Dubai.
Manchester Business School Worldwide (MBSW) has announced that it is to set up a regional learning hub in Dubai, to assist in the promotion of its MBA for Construction Executives and other distance learning MBA programmes The school is opening its Middle East centre in September at Knowledge Village, under the direction of its first director of the Middle East region, Randa Bessiso
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 3 Mar 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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Dubai will be MBSW's third international centre, after Hong Kong and Singapore.
Dubai was an easy choice for MBSW and met all the selection criteria for an international centre.
Nigel Banister, CEO, explains: "We look for growth areas in the world that have got a solid infrastructure, a healthy and growing business climate, areas of skills development that are being supported by government and businesses that are facing huge challenges through positive change".
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"We see demand in the region for all our distance-learning programmes, including the MBA for Financial Managers and Finance Professionals, our MBA for Engineering Business Managers and especially the MBA for Construction Executives".
Specifically designed with markets like the Middle East in mind, MBSW's MBA for Construction Executives is for managers working in all construction disciplines, including architecture, engineering and project management.
The MBA for Construction Executives is key to MBSW's success in the region.
With 200-storey towers, immense sea-based projects on reclaimed land and hotel development worth US$ 100 billion, demand for the construction MBA is expected to be high.
"The UK led the way with the Construction Industry Training Board encouraging us to develop a particular course to address the huge global expansion in the construction sector".
"We launched it in the UK in January and the natural next place in the world to introduce it was here in the Middle East," Banister says.
Ms Bessiso, a Lebanese national of Palestinian origin, has worked in senior management positions in international organisations within the region for over 10 years.
Most recently, Ms Bessiso was the Dubai-based International Business Manager for UK eUniversities Worldwide.
Commenting on the appointment, Dr Alistair Benson, Academic Director at MBSW, said: "Randa brings to this new role a wealth of relevant regional experience, which will be vital as we build the 'Manchester Worldwide MBA' brand and actively recruit and support high calibre students in the region".
Dr Benson recently welcomed its second intake of MBA students from the region at an orientation session in Dubai (see attached photo of students).
Over 50 students from across the Gulf Cooperation Council, Yemen and Iran joined MBSW's MBA programmes in finance, engineering and construction, bringing the total number of students from the region currently studying with the school to 100.
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