Aspirants to world class executive management education in India have reason to rejoice. Edvance Learning, an Education Company promoted by Arun Arora, former president of The Times of India Group, is bringing truly world class International Executive Education to India, in association with the pioneer graduate school of management in Asia, The Asian Institute of Management, Manila.
Dr. Grace S. Ugut, Associate Dean of the Executive Education and Lifelong Learning Center – Asian Institute of Management (AIM), said, “It gives me great pleasure to announce that starting February 2010, Edvance Learning will bring AIM’s prestigious Executive Diploma on Business Management (EDBM) to professionals in India. We are delighted that Edvance Learning is partnering us in this endeavour. The Executive Diploma is part of our flagship one-year courses, and will be delivered entirely by our own faculty which will be flown in from Manila.”
The Executive Diploma on Business Management will launch three months from now, in February 2010, and will be conducted at Edvance Learning’s state-of-the-art, world-class centre in Shivaji Nagar. The program, to be completed over a period of one year, will involve 16 weeks of classroom work led by a distinguished faculty with extensive teaching, consulting and management experience.
Arun Arora, Group Chairman, Edvance Learning, said, “AIM enjoys immense respect worldwide as a pioneer institution that has that has modeled Asia’s business development and entrepreneurial leaders and managers for more than 40 years. We are delighted to partner them because they share our vision and mission of bringing in the best of cutting-edge professional higher education to India. This EDBM is designed to prepare the next generation of leaders and managers – who are competent and capable of leading business units and regional offices to support company expansion. The diploma will fulfill a long-standing need of working supervisors and managers to avail of the most contemporary, relevant and empowering management education in India itself, without having to travel abroad.”
Targeted specifically at people with at least 3 years’ supervisory or managerial experience, AIM’s Executive Diploma on Business Management being offered by Edvance Learning in Pune is designed to help make corporate change happen. It seeks to answer the needs of the organization to make strategic changes quickly in times of turbulence, uncertainty and intense competition, through strategic Human Resource development. It believes that strategic change is best achieved from within an organization, guided by top management and executed by company’s own managers empowered by a program geared to produce results.
