The China National MBA Education Supervisory Committee (CNMESC) and the Temasek Foundation of Singapore will together launch a program to improve the capabilities of business schools in universities in China’s western-interior region. The foundation will provide RMB 12.6 million in funding to support the program.
Through this development program, five of China’s top universities in the eastern region will partner with five universities in China’s western-interior region. The participating universities are:
* Tsinghua University partnered with Inner Mongolia University
* Peking University partnered with Chongqing University
* Renmin University of China partnered with Guangxi University
* Fudan University partnered with Yunnan University
* Shanghai Jiao Tong University partnered with Sichuan University
The program will train 135 participants from the western-interior universities in three key components:
a. The MBA Dean Leadership Development Program will provide the opportunity for 15 Deans and Associate Deans to learn from international best practices.
b. A Business Faculty Development Program consisting of a semester-long mentorship program for 90 interior school faculty members at a coastal school MBA program.
c. The Administrative Leadership and Management Program will train 30 MBA administrators.
CNMESC is a nationwide organization of experts in management education which supervises and guides the development of MBA education in China.
Source: Tsinghua University News
