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The opportunity to gain a globally recognised professional qualification without having to travel to the UK to study has once again proved popular.
The average cohort of the Masters in Business Administration qualification, which is run by the GTA University Centre in conjunction with the University of Southampton, is 12 and runs over two years. This year, 14 have started the course, which includes young managers from the States of Guernsey who will use year one to gain a Postgraduate Certificate in Business Administration.
The course, which aims to give students a grounding in the latest management techniques and thinking, provides an understanding of strategic management and an insight into business issues through individual research and by covering a wide range of modules including effective leadership, contemporary marketing, decision modelling and analysis, corporate finance and operations management.
Professor Edgar Meyer from the University of Southampton School of Management, which is one of Europe’s leading management schools, said the course would challenge every student.
"It is intense but both the GTA University Centre and the University of Southampton have many years’ experience of supporting students and we want to do what we can to ensure there are no barriers put in place," he said.
The fact that the course is studied in the island is the reason Clare Carre enrolled. As a mother of three young children and with a full-time role as senior project and change manager at the Guernsey Financial Services Commission, she said she couldn’t have considered the MBA had it not been taught on-island.
"It was the reason why it was so attractive. The study sessions are already planned and so it becomes part of your life. It is tough but I am very lucky to have the support of the GFSC which makes it easier to fit it all in and a very supportive husband," she said.
Mrs Carre, who is a qualified lawyer, recently moved to the island with her Guernsey-born husband, and joined the GFSC earlier this year.
