Centre for African Management and Entrepreneurship Development (CAMED) is a collaboration among Euro-African Management Research Centre (E-AMARC-Maastricht, Netherlands), Department of Computers and Management Sciences (University of Trento-Italy), Centre for African Entrepreneurship Research and Development (University of Nairobi-Kenya), Centre for Small Business Growth and Development (University of Zimbabwe), and Centre for Business Research and Development (Zanzibar University-Tanzania). Together, these institutions cooperate with Universities and institutions in Africa and Europe.
This means that there are more than five European and African academic institutions that guarantee the quality of the programs. We can therefore offer a unique, more focused and specialized management, business and entrepreneurship programs, which is modular in style and provides flexible mode of study. Our programs utilizes core modules to promote effective and efficient high-quality delivering plus a number of specialization leading to differentiated awards upon option choice.
Most of the programs are available at the Centres in Maastricht, Nairobi, Harare, and Zanzibar on full-time (evenings and weekends) and part-time basis.The Professional Development Diploma (PDD) programs are designed as a platform for the exchange of professional expertise. For this, there is an important emphasis on groups and individual projects, applying theory to the world of practical realities of the students. Lectures and group projects are supplemented with presentations, guest lectures and personal coaching.The didactic approach consists of plenary and tutorial sessions. The plenary session consists of lectures by the lecturer or a distinguished guest speaker. The tutorial group session consists of group projects. This approach is directed at facilitating self-study, offering new problems and topics for discussion integrally exchanging insights into the diversity of work-experience, stimulating the work culture and constantly seeking the most recent knowledge. The cross cultural faculty will create a learning environment that challenges students to work hard at their own intellectual and social skills development. The language of instruction for all the courses is English.The decision to award the Centres certificates and diplomas is dependent upon the acquisition of 120 credit points for the diploma programs. Students who do not pass all the prescribed examination for the award of the professional development diploma, shall be eligible for the award of the Proficiency Development Certificate provided they have successfully passed subject units equivalent to 60 credit points.
Students shall be considered for a diploma award after the Centres Examination and Degree Awarding Board is satisfied that the student has successfully scored at least 50 percent in all the course final examination and therefore eligible for the award of the Professional Development Diploma. The Centre and the University that the Centre is affiliated jointly issue the diploma.
Within the Centre students can obtain an award of Proficiency Development Certificate in any of the courses being offered by the Centre. The maximum subjects a free-student can enrol for and obtain a proficiency certificate on are six. A free-student shall be considered for proficiency certificate award after the Centre Certificate Awarding Board is satisfied that the student has scored at least 50 percent in the individual subject final examination and therefore qualified to obtain the award of a proficiency certificate on the individually passed subject.
General Criteria
To be accepted into any of the Centre's programs, candidates will need to demonstrate a high intellectual ability including the capacity to think for yourself, practical commonsense and the ability to put ideas into action. The candidate will also need to be highly motivated to learn and to make a constructive contribution to industry and society.
The following qualification will be accepted into the programs:
The Centre do accept some candidates who have not fully satisfied the normal educational requirements for studentship set out in clauses 1-4 inclusive above, but only if they have been exceptionally successful in other ways, and if there is strong evidence of appropriate professional ability. The courses are fast moving and intellectually demanding, even by the standards of other leading institutions, and the Centres want to be quite sure that the students can perform at a higher level.
There are no formal limits on age and work experience. However, the Centres very rarely accept any one without at least two years of full-time, practical, 'real world' experience, outside the formal educational environment. Most students have considerable more.
In looking at a candidate's experience the Centres take account of such things as military service, voluntary services, or expeditions, as well as of more traditional jobs. The Centres main concern is with how much the candidate learn from experiences they have had and with the management potentials they have demonstrated.
The Centres Professional Development Certificates and Diploma programs are general programs with emphasis on Management, Entrepreneurship and Training of Trainers practices and integrative projects, combining the highest national and international standards of entrepreneurship and management education with the best of the University traditions. The full-time (evenings and weekends) programs are very intensive and high entry standards ensure a class of students who can work fast and efficient.
The first phase (part 1) of the programs are devoted to a comprehensive core of the compulsory subjects. We leave in a challenging, exciting and rapidly changing world in which graduates from leading business schools often find themselves attracted to possibilities they had not envisaged when setting out on their career education. In these circumstances, the strong core of the Centres certificate and diploma programs provide the students with the foundation needed, whichever direction the student might subsequently decide to follow.
The second and third parts of the program allow the students to develop their own individual interests and focus the studies towards their future career direction through a selection of electives and an individual project on a topic of their choice. Many of the electives use external teachers with specialist professional expertise, other draw on the wider resources of the Universities. Students are expected to select at least 3 subjects each from part 2 and part 3 of the elective subjects.
The development and delivery of the Centres course programs are a carefully monitored process. The certificates and diplomas have been officially validated by African, European and American Universities and professional institutions, which means that they confer the Centres internationally recognized certificates, diplomas and degrees. Apart from each participating institutions own quality procedures, there are two panels of experts who assure that the quality is consistent with the high level of academic and professional excellence and the demands required by industry and society.
Experienced Management and Entrepreneurial Professors and professionals drawn from CAMED, the Centres, the Universities and corporations conduct all program courses and workshops.
Prof. Osarumwense Iguisi
Executive Director and Professor of Cultures and International Management, Euro-African Management Research Centre (E-AMARC), Maastricht-Netherlands.
Prof. Francis N. Kibera
Principal, and Professor of International Marketing and Strategic Management, College for Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Nairobi-Kenya.
Mr. Hillary Mukwenha
Dean, Faculty of Commerce, University of Zimbabwe, Harare-Zimbabwe.
Prof. Shamseldin Abdin
Vice Chancellor, Zanzibar University, Zanzibar-Tanzania.
Dr. Ziv Tamangani
Director, Centre for African Entrepreneurship and Small Business Growth, Graduate School of Management, University of Zimbabwe, Harare-Zimbabwe.
Mr. Jackson Maalu
Coordinator, Centre for African Entrepreneurship Research and Development, Faculty of Commerce, University of Nairobi, Kenya.
Mr. Athman Ahmed
Director, Centre for African Business Research and Development, Zanzibar University, Zanzibar-Tanzania.
The Centres are committed to ensuring equal opportunity to all persons and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, religion, ancestry, national origin, age, or disability in its educational (research, training and consulting) programs, activities, admissions or employment practices.
The Centres communities value both personal and academic freedom. All members have personal responsibility to promote an atmosphere of civility in which the free exchange of ideas and opinions can flourish. This is done through learning from each individual and collective difference and respecting the freedom of all human being.
1. Professional Development Diploma in Management (PDDM)
This program explores issues and forces surrounding the process of management in small, medium and large organizations. The program combines issues in cross-cultures with those of organizational, managerial and strategic controls. It also incorporates entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial behavior in business organizations. The program allows an exposure to comparative management across cultures.
The program is designed for lower and middle management levels, and those involved in government-business interface, those who want to make a career in management and those running their own businesses.
The PDDM course is divided into three parts. The first parts of the course are the compulsory subjects for all the program participants. The second and third parts contain six subjects each from which students must take a minimum of three subjects from each part. A student is considered to have passed the program only if he/she passed ten subjects including the compulsory subjects of the program.
Part 1: Compulsory Subjects
There are four compulsory subjects, all of which must be taken by all the students
Part 2: Electives
The electives are subjects that build upon the materials covered in the compulsory subjects. There are six options from which student are required to choose minimum three.
Part 3: Electives
A student is expected to carry out a project in any functional area of management that is of interest to him/her during the final stage of the program.
2. Professional Development Diploma in Entrepreneurship (PDDE)
This diploma course in entrepreneurship stress contemporary issues in entrepreneurship and small business management, and the underlying environmental, sociocultural and personal perspectives. The program builds skills in managing the process of small business creation as well as enterprise development. It is designed for those who need a career in entrepreneurship, those who are involved in the process of small business policy guidance, small business creation, small business management and entrepreneurial initiatives. It is also very relevant to entrepreneurs who would want to enrich their conceptual and operational knowledge.
The PDDE course is divided into three parts. The first parts of the course are the compulsory subjects for all the program participants. The second and third parts contain seven subjects each from which students must take a minimum of three subjects from each part. A student is considered to have passed the program only if he/she passed ten subjects including the compulsory subjects.
Part 1: Compulsory Subjects
There are four compulsory subjects, all of which must be taken by all the students
Part 2: Electives
The electives contain seven subjects from which students must take a minimum of three.
Part 3: Electives
The electives contain seven subjects from which students must take a minimum of three.
A student is expected to carry out a project in any functional area of entrepreneurship that is of interest to him/her during the final stage of the program.
This program deals with issues of classical traditional methods to a more modern innovative problem-based learning and training approaches. Very often, the consultants and local staff providing training to trainees do not have adequate skills in problem-based educational training methods. This program enables participants to develop the tools and instruments needed to enhance their learning and training processes and to facilitate change, and expand their scope of theoretical and practical knowledge. This is with the aims to provide participants with information, skills and tools to assess practical training needed, define realistic training objectives, to implement effective training programs that enhances the quality of training being passed on to the trainees.
The TPD course is divided into three parts. The first parts of the course are the compulsory subjects for all the program participants. The second and third parts contain six subjects each from which students must take a minimum of three subjects from each part. A student is considered to have passed the program only if he/she passed ten subjects including the compulsory subjects of the program
Part 1: Compulsory Subjects
There are four compulsory subjects, all of which must be taken by all the students
Part 2: Electives
The electives contain six subjects from which students must take a minimum of three.
Part 3: Electives
The electives contain six subjects from which students must take a minimum of three.
A student is expected to carry out a project in any functional area of entrepreneurship or management that is of interest to him/her during the final stage of the program.
Registration:
US$ 3000
For students registering with E-AMARC in Maastricht-Netherlands
US$ 1500
For students registering at Nairobi-Kenya, Harare-Zimbabwe and Zanzibar Centres
US$ 5000
For students registering with E-AMARC in Maastricht-Netherlands
US$ 2000
For students registering at Nairobi-Kenya, Harare-Zimbabwe and Zanzibar Centres
US$ 5000
For students registering with E-AMARC in Maastricht-Netherlands
US$ 3000
For students registering at Nairobi-Kenya, Harare-Zimbabwe and Zanzibar Centres
Fee includes student's guide to facilitate self-study. Not included in the fee are accommodation and books (for books, a budget of approximately US$500 is envisage). Most of the requested reading materials are available in the library of the Universities and the Centres.
Request for program information and admission forms should be addressed to:
The Program Director
Euro-African Management Research Centre, Hyacinthenstraat 23, 6214 TC Maastricht, Netherlands. Tel: +31 43 3431497 Fax: +31 43 3431497/3260203. E-mail address: e-amac@cuci.nl
The Coordinator
Centre for African Entrepreneurship Research and Development, Faculty of Commerce, University of Nairobi. PO.Box 30197, Nairobi-Kenya. Tel: +254 2 217441/334244 Fax: +245 2 224457
The Director
Centre for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Growth, Graduate School of Management, University of Zimbabwe, PO.Box MP 167, Mount Pleasant, Harare-Zimbabwe. Tel: +263 4 303211 ext. 1515/1302 Fax: +263 4 333674. E-mail address: mukwenha@esanet.zw
The Director
Centre for African Business Research and Development, Faculty of Business Administration, Zanzibar University. PO Box 2440, Zanzibar-Tanzania. Tel: +255 811602784/255 54 232642 Fax: +255 811338174. E-mail address: zu@zitec.org
Concept
The full and part-time executive programs evolved after recognizing that there is a very large number of individuals who would want to obtain an advance entrepreneurial and management degrees and diplomas but could not do so due to their nature of employment. The programs are specifically designed for managers and entrepreneurs who have full-time employment responsibilities and therefore cannot attend regular full-time advance degree or diploma programs. The clash between full-time employment and studies is avoided through these programs where employed individuals can now combine work with studies. These programs proves very advantageous to those individuals that are self-sponsored who would want to further their managerial and entrepreneurial training while performing their regular job activities to pay for such training. These programs are designed for those who would have attended regular masters degree programs but could not afford to leave their regular place of work or afford the high cost involved in regular academic activities. Having recognized these constraints, these programs have therefore been designed to run as sandwich (open and distance learning programs).
Registration at E-AMARC in Maastricht-Netherlands
For international students registering with E-AMARC in Maastricht, they stay in Maastricht-Netherlands, for a three period of six weeks for intensive academic activities. Between these periods, students will be required to carry out learning activities in their own home country environment by way of self, open and distance learning methods. To enhance students-students and students-teachers interactions, the students are advised to find access to the worldwide electonic communication networks such as the internet and e-mail facilities. The curricula of the programs will have a six-week unit structure during which students concentrates on only a limited number of courses. In each of the units, various contributing disciplines will be organized around a functional area of small businesses and entrepreneurial management-with the exception of the introductory-courses deals with one of the functional areas of international business and international marketing management.
Duration of Programs.
The duration of masters degree programs is approximately 27 months and offered as a modular curriculum in units of six weeks. The estimated study load is about 20 hours per week for those units carried out at students home environment. The post-graduate diploma programs are designed for completion within 15 months and offered as modular curriculum in units of six weeks. The estimated study load is about 12 hours per week for those units carried out at students home country.
For local students registered in their home country at the Nairobi, Zimbabwe and Zanzibar Centres, the masters programs are designed for completion in 24 months, while the diploma programs are designed for completion within 12 months. Lectures and classes are conducted in the evenings and during the weekends. The weekend sessions run from 9 a.m. until 6 p.m. Cases and paper presentation are done during the evenings.
Delivering of the Programs:
the delivering of the programs are facilitated by the Centres working with other faculties and departments who collaborate and effectively participate in the course design, development, promotion and delivering of the curricula. In order to enrich the input into these programs, the Centres draws its resource persons from the academic institutions and industry to supplement the Centres based resources.
Common Core Course: Culture Dimensions Management
This ‘common’ core course gives insight into cultural values and its consequences for management practices; motivation patterns, business structures, strategic planning, leadership, decision making processes, organizational behaviors and communication processes in different economic, social, technological and cultural environments.
Having followed this course, participants will find it much easier to understand and appreciate their own cultures and be able to study other cultures that makes it possible to analyze the ‘growth-positive’ and growth-negative’ culture based factors in one’s own society and determines the impart of cultures for management and economic development. This course helps the participants develop the ability to cope with rapidly changing business and technological environments by focusing on the strategic issues of cultures that enhances their ability to contribute something original to the development of their societies within their chosen professional fields. The course offers an introduction to culture dimensions, cross cultural research methods and the consequences for businesses and appropriate management in different societies.
Foundation Course
The Foundation course in the Small Business and Entrepreneurship programs consists of a number of functional subject courses providing analytical skills required to facilitate easier absorption of materials in subsequent advance courses. Within the same set of courses, there are subjects that survey the functional areas of business and entrepreneurship. These courses are conducted in a highly structured way. All participants are required to study the same subjects and follow the same program schedule. It is necessary for participants to have good understanding of the Common course of Culture Dimensions and the Foundation courses before proceeding with the rest of the programs.
Course Details
F1 Economics.
This course reviews the basic concepts and principles of modern micro-economic analysis and demonstrates the relevance and applicability of the same principles to practical business issues and problems.
F2 Accounting.
This course explores basic concepts and techniques in financial and managerial accounting for practical business issues.
F3 Financial Management.
This course in corporate financial management focuses on optimal acquisition of financial resources from the external markets and their effective utilization and control within the enterprise.
F4 Quantitative Methods.
Principles and techniques of management science emphasizing the formulation of some elementary statistics methods for the solution of marketing, production, distribution and operations management will be covered in this course.
F5 Marketing Management.
This course focuses on the identification and evaluation of market opportunities through marketing research, business competition and customer analysis. The decision areas surrounding the marketing mix (product planning, marking channel systems, pricing and marketing communication) will be thoroughly examined.
Specialization Focus:
Small Business Management or Entrepreneurship Development
The specializations stresses contemporary issues in small business management, entrepreneurship development and the underlying cultural, environmental and personal forces. The programs build skills in managing the process of small business creation as well as enterprise management. They are designed for those who are involved in the process of small business policy designers, small business creations, small business management and entrepreneurial initiatives. It is of high relevance to the entrepreneurs in the private businesses and entrepreneurs in the industries who would want to enrich their conceptual and practical skills.
Small Business Management (MSBM)
This specialization focus on the characteristics of small businesses: managerial and leadership systems of the enterprise, the organization of small business firms, the authority and responsibility practices in the firms. The impact of cultures on small business development will be the core subject of this course. The environmental (legal, economics, education, health and others) impact on small business practices will be discussed. The subjects’ coverage of this specialization from which students can choose consists of the following:
Please contact the individual Centre for information on subjects’ coverage.
Entrepreneurship Development (MED)
This program defines entrepreneurship development as a necessary component for economic development strategy. Characteristics of successful entrepreneurs will be defined and solutions to problems of failures will be developed. The program will focus on the conceptual frame and roots of entrepreneurship, the task, role and functions of the entrepreneur and the underlying sociocultural, physical and personality-related factors. Furthermore, it will focus on the dimensions of the process: personality, environment, organization and management. The role of vision, innovation, creativity, barriers to entrepreneurial initiatives and strategies including alternative forms of entrepreneurship will be discussed. Emphasis will be focused on the pull and push factors of entrepreneurship. The common core course of this program will be the culture dimensions approach and management. The subjects’ coverage of this specialization from which students can choose consists of the following:
Please contact the individual Centre for more information on subjects’ coverage.
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