How do we know that the higher education we provide today as Business Schools meets or exceeds the expectations of all stakeholders, including students, faculty, employers, regulatory agencies, and internationally recognised accreditation organisations like AMBA?
What polices, practices, procedures, and leadership concepts are in place to ensure that the academic institution is meeting all of its obligations relative to quality, or at least a plan that is clearly understood which states what activities need to be undertaken for continuous improvement and achieving high quality?
Answers to these key strategic questions will be provided during this dynamic and interactive three day workshop on Beginning the journey towards AMBA accreditation.
By using real-world examples based on the best practices and lessons learned from more than 500 academic institutions from throughout the world, delegates will explore and explain the essential elements and principles associated with academic quality and programmatic accreditation. All participants will be involved in developing clarity regarding their specific aims for quality, AMBA accreditation, and excellence in higher education.
The recommended participants for this programme include individuals involved in activities related to quality assurance, both academic and operational, for higher education organisations. This should include programme managers, department chairs, deans, directors, and other key leaders who will be involved in the accreditation process.
The key to internationalisation of the higher education institution and AMBA accreditation pertains to the areas of quality, assurance of learning, and leadership. Through a tailored agenda designed to respond to participants’ needs, this seminar will enable participants to gain valuable insights and meaningful results for achieving their desired outcomes
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The cost for this three day workshop is $29,000. AMBA member schools receive a 15% discount, resulting a workshop price of $25,000.
The workshop price includes two workshop facilitators plus travel to the host institution’s city. The host institution will be responsible for workshop facility costs, local travel costs, lodging for the facilitators, and meals.
The workshop can be customized specific to the academic institution. If additional workshop days are needed, cost for each additional day is $5,000.
Workshop dates need to be scheduled at least three months in advance and in collaboration with Peregrine Academic Services.
Once the fees have been paid in advance of the workshop and the dates have been determined, Peregrine will send the institution a form to use to map the current institutional processes and products with the AMBA accreditation principles. This document must be completed at least 30 days prior to the workshop so that the form can be used to help customise the workshop towards the specific needs of the academic institution.
| When | Topic | Discussion areas |
| 09:00 to 09:30 | Welcome and introductions | Introduction of the facilitators and the participants |
| 9:30 to 11:00 | Your mission, vision, values | Strategic alignment of your mission and vision Clarifying your organisational values |
| 11:00 to 11:30 | Break | |
| 11:30 to 13:00 | SOAR analysis | Strengths Opportunities Aspirations Results |
| 13:00 to 14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 to 15:30 | Strategic goals | Review and develop and strategic goals Implementation of goals – who when and how |
| 15:30 to 16:30 | AMBA accreditation principles | Principle review GAP analysis |
| When | Topic | Discussion areas |
| 09:00 to 09:30 | Review day one | Review the key learning points and notes from the previous day |
| 9:30 to 11:00 | The assessment context | What do you need to assess? Operational assessment Student learning assessment |
| 11:00 to 11:30 | Break | |
| 11:30 to 13:00 | Assessment planning | Course-level assessment Programme-level assessment Institutional-level assessment |
| 13:00 to 14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 to 15:30 | Assessment tools | How do you assess? Direct and indirect measure Formative, normative, summative assessment |
| 15:30 to 16:30 | Break | |
| 16:00 to 18:00 | Using assessment results | Identifying required changes and improvements Strategies for making changes and improvements |
| When | Topic | Discussion areas |
| 9:00 to 9:30 | Review day two | Day One: you started to learn what you need to do and day two: you learned how to assess those needs. |
| 9:30 to 11:00 | Goals – objectives – measures – metrics – targets | How to implement identified need changes and improvements Goals and objectives,Metrics and targets |
| 11:00 to 11:30 | Break | |
| 11:30 to 13:00 | Building the actions plans | Building the actions plans What is an action plan? What are the pieces of an action plan? |
| 13:00 to 14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 to 15:30 | Using the actions plans | |
| 15:30 to 16:00 | Break | Monitoring the implantation of action plans Assessing actions plans Making needed changes to the plan |
| 16:00 to 17:30 | Ensuring unity of effort towards AMBA accreditation | Communication, internal and external Leadership in the process Consultation in the process |
| 17:30 – 18:00 | Closing | Wrap-up and workshop assessment |
Two facilitators from Peregrine Academic Services will conduct the workshop. Facilitators include experienced senior leaders with extensive higher education experience from the US, Europe, Australia, Africa, Latin America, and Asia.
Brief biographies of the Peregrine’s workshop facilitators and their office location are as follows. The workshop will be tailored to the hosting institution’s needs. It can be repeated for the hosting institution or adapted to other interested institutions.
For more than 30 years, William (Bill) Parrott has worked in quality assurance and academic program development. Bill is an expert in the implementation of continuous improvement including program assessment. Before joining our team, Bill spent 13 years with International Assembly for Collegiate Business Education (IACBE).
Bill has traveled to over 200 institutions of higher learning and reviewed 1,000+ degree programmes in more than 20 countries and within the US. Bill has reviewed accreditation documents, developed new academic programs, updated existing programs, and consulted with program administrators to enhance their ability to accomplish their goals.
Clarice Tate has more than 20 years combined experience in the public and private sectors, including nonprofit organizations, primarily focused on business development, consulting, research, and administration. Within the education sector she served as a secondary classroom teacher and higher education administrator.
Her higher education experience includes accreditation management, human resource management, and project management. She holds a master’s of education from Coppin State University and Masters of Business Administration from the Smith School of Business, University of Maryland College Park.
Mick has over 30 years of experience in both the public and private sectors with both for-profit and non-profit organisations. His responsibilities have included organisational leadership, quality and continuous improvement, project and people management, HR management, university administration, research and development, and environment, health and safety.
Mick holds a bachelor of engineering and a master of arts in organisational management as well as professional certifications from the Society of Human Resource Management, the American Society of Training and Development, and is Six Sigma certified
Debbie has more than 30 years of experience within nearly every organisational level of higher education and business from faculty/first-line employee to senior leadership. She has worked in the public sector, private sector, and with non-profit organisations. Her specialisations include workforce development, strategic planning, and operations management. She holds a bachelor of science degree in personnel management and industrial relations and a master of public administration from the University of Wyoming.
Doug Gilbert has held a range of leadership positions in the private sector, in academia, and in U.S. federal and local government. He has worked in the legal profession, industry, and management consulting, including several international leadership roles at Novartis AG, in Basel, Switzerland, and strategy and transformation consultant for Ernst & Young and Gemini Consulting in life sciences and biotech.
He was also an attorney law clerk for the Hon. Warren K. Urbom, Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court in Nebraska. Doug holds a Juris Doctorate from the University of Iowa, an MBA from IMD in Switzerland, and a Doctor of Business Administration from the University of Phoenix.
Dominique has worked in international higher education for over 25 years, contributing to the internationalisation of Schools and the constant improvement of their academic standards. As Executive Director for the American Business School of Paris for more than five years, she worked to improve programmes for academic and operational excellence to meet international and French accreditation requirements.
She also served during two terms the IACBE board of directors, carrying out site visits for prospective schools interested in obtaining the IACBE accreditation and represented the European schools within the organisation. Her mission is to provide students with opportunities to succeed in a global market, no matter what their nationality, country of origin or field of study.
Dr Singer is specialised in the areas of human resource management, change and performance management as well as the accreditation of institutions in higher education. In his career he held various positions: CEO, Provost, Academic Director, Dean, Senior Researcher, Sales Manager, Regional Director Europe for a US accreditation organisation.
He has been working internationally as a consultant to companies for 25 years. He designs and implements corporate change processes and supports them as a coach and management developer. As a lecturer he focuses on graduate and post-graduate courses.
Dr Krishna has over 20 years’ experience in the corporate sector including five years as the CEO of a conglomerate, and 18 years’ experience as an academic leader and distinguished professor of strategy and international business. Krishna has a bachelor’s degree in engineering, a master’s degree in systems, a master’s degree in business administration, and two doctoral degrees – one in project management and the second in strategy.
Krishna has undergone advanced training in business intelligence, Analytics, and Knowledge Management at SAS Institute, US. He has conducted more than 50 executive training programmes for CXOs including 10 for Fortune 100 Companies.
