Over 100 Manchester MBA students attend workshops at Dubai Knowledge Village

Students from across the region, representing more than 20 nationalities and following distance learning MBA programmes run by Manchester Business School Worldwide (MBSW), were able to spend valuable time with top faculty at the event, which was coordinated by MBSW's new Middle East Centre, which opened at Dubai Knowledge Village earlier this month.

MBSW, the international distance learning arm of Manchester Business School, opened its new Middle East Centre at Dubai Knowledge Village to provide support for more than 100 students from the region, who are currently studying MBA programmes with MBSW. Dubai is the third MBSW international centre; the School already operates centres in Hong Kong and Singapore.

Randa Bessiso, Director for the Middle East at MBSW, explained that the distance learning students in the region benefit from 250 hours of face to face workshops, during the 30-month MBA programmes: "This personal contact time with MBS faculty - very often the experts who design the course modules - is vital to the students and the workshops are also opportunities to network with fellow students, most of whom are experienced, senior managers in their organisations. The 250 hours of workshops represents about 70 per cent of what a full-time, campus-based student would experience at Manchester Business School, so this is a real advantage for our distance learning students."

The six-day programme of back-to-back workshops covered Financial Accounting, Financial Management, International Business Strategy, Managerial Economics, Risk Management, Treasury & Foreign Exchange.

Tony Merna, visiting lecturer from the University of Manchester and leader of the Risk Management workshop, commented: "We had a good group of students from multicultural backgrounds and of the calibre that you would expect at MBS; they are highly experienced, from a broad range of industries, such as finance, construction, Engineering, IT and manufacturing, and bring a lot of this experience into the workshops."