AMBA & BGA Accreditation Forum 2024
The AMBA & BGA Accreditation Forum took
place from Monday 24 to Tuesday 25 June 2024 in the cultural city of Prague,
Czechia.
The forum was specifically designed to support accreditation professionals at business schools applying for AMBA and/or BGA accreditation or re-accreditation.
- 24–25 June 2024
- Prague, Czechia
Keynote speakers shared insights into various aspects of AMBA and/or BGA accreditation and re-accreditation, including:
- the accreditation process structure
- what it took to make an accreditation submission successful
- best practices of successful business schools
- typical challenges business schools faced – and proposed solutions
- marketing and communicating accreditation to key audiences
- AMBA accreditation in the context of the 300 schools limit
- AMBA & BGA joint accreditation
- BGA accreditation and BGA validation
- updates on AMBA’s revised MBA accreditation criteria
- –Registration and networking
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Welcome and introduction
- Andrew Main Wilson (CEO, AMBA & BGA)
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Session 1: AMBA accreditation process
This session will give you an overview of the AMBA accreditation processes both as a new applicant or a business school seeking re-accreditation including costs, time scales, and logistics.
- Mark Stoddard (Director of Accreditation & Director of BGA Services)
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Session 2: MBA trends and Beyond Accreditation
Discover the latest original research from AMBA & BGA on global trends in postgraduate management education. Amongst an overview of the newest research from the department on students’ expectations when completing programmes and employers’ experience with their newly recruited business management employees, we will do a deep dive into AMBA’s annual Application and Enrolment Report – a requirement of all AMBA schools. In this session, also find out about the Beyond Accreditation experience, including how schools can make the most of promoting their hard-earned accreditation.
- Leonora Clement (Head of Marketing and Communications)
- Ellen Buchan (Insight, Content & PR Manager)
- –Networking and refreshment break
Meet the speakers
Andrew Main Wilson
CEO, AMBA & BGA
Ellen Buchan
Insight, Content & PR Manager
Guitta Dabdab
Quality & Accreditation Manager, ESA Business School
Hans van der Heijden
Director, H2 Software Limited and Part-time Professor of Accounting at the University of Sussex Business School
Koen Vandenbempt
Dean, University of Antwerp & non-executive director of Antwerp Management School, University of Antwerp/Antwerp Management School
Leonora Clement
Head of Marketing and Communications
Mark Stoddard
Director of Accreditation & Director of BGA Services
Richard Turner
Head of Business Development - BGA
Tamim Elbasha
Associate Dean - Learning & Quality Development, Audencia Business School
Vasile Alecsandru Strat
Dean, Bucharest Business School | Bucharest University of Economic Studies
Grandior Hotel Prague
Our conference venue, the Grandior Hotel Prague, is ideally situated in Prague’s city centre. Attendees will enjoy its proximity to the major attractions of the historic Prague Old Town and public transport links. AMBA & BGA has negotiated preferential room rates for delegates looking to stay at the Grandior Hotel Prague.
In addition, we have also arranged preferential room rates at our venue’s sister hotel, the Grand Majestic Hotel, which is a 5-minute walk away from the Grandior Hotel Prague. (For the Grand Majestic Hotel, single occupancy rooms are 175 Euros per night including breakfast.
Our prefential room rate for the Grandior Hotel Prague has now ended. Please contact our booking agent Anita Galea for further assistance.