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Academic & Executive Learning Center |
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The year 2004 saw the development of Academic & Executive Learning Center as a full fledged learning center added to BIBF’s existing five learning centers.
The mission of Academic & Executive Learning Center is to provide world class programs in the area of Academic & Executive education through BIBF strategic partnership with reputable and accredited universities in the United States and the United Kingdom.
In the area of academic education, Bentley’s B.Sc. program progressed with the enrollment of another freshman class. Eight students joined the prestigious degree in Business Administration offered by one of the top accredited specialized colleges in the United States. The program is designed in such a manner whereby professors from Bentley fly in to deliver the same courses taught at Bentley’s campus in Waltham, MA but in consecutives modules. The students spend three summer semesters at Bentley to acquire experience of American campus life and network with American students. Graduation of the first class is due in the summer of 2006.
This year also saw the introduction of undergraduate diplomas and bachelor degrees validated by University of Wales. Students are offered two choices of study: either take the foundation plus two years to earn a diploma or attend additional year at the University of Wales campus in Bangor and graduate with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in either Banking or Finance or in Business Studies. Students may choose from an array of four diplomas in the area of Banking, Islamic Banking, Business Studies or Treasury and Capital Markets.
In the postgraduate area, a Master of Business Administration degree (MBA) was, introduced with DePaul University in Chicago in 2000. Two classes graduated and the third is due later this year. With this graduation the number of alumni would rise from 41 to 68. Cohort III began in March with two concentrations in marketing and applied economics.
In the area of executive development, the BIBF-Darden Gulf Executive Development (GEDP) completed its sixth cycle making this program VII as the first program was initiated with Columbia Business School of the University of Columbia in New York. The objective of this program is to prepare future leaders in the Kingdom of Bahrain and other parts of the region. The program starts in May every year and end in January of the following year. Participants start with Week I (foundation Week) in Bahrain before flying to the United States where they spend a further four weeks at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and return to Bahrain to work on their projects to be completed before Week VII when Darden Faculty fly in to Bahrain to conduct the final week before graduation.
Prospects look extremely encouraging for development of these programs, particularly in the area of undergraduate studies where there is lots of interest on the part of high school leavers to join degree programs offered by accredited international universities.
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