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Types of Program
Unlike straight-forward MBA courses, executive
education is presented in a wide range of different formats that
allow the participants to fit their learning around their busy,
fee-earning, work schedules. The huge majority of executive education
is paid for by employers rather than individuals and as such the
corporate buyer has a significant influence over the shape, content
and participant make-up of courses.
While there is an infinite variety of how courses
and classes are designed most will fall into the following groups:
- Open Enrolment:
- this is the "plain vanilla"
option. These courses are open to everyone and the course programme
is predetermined by the business school both in terms of content
and duration.
- Custom:
- also known as "tailor-made". These
courses are designed specifically for a single company to fulfil
criteria that that company sets out. All the participants will
be from the same company. Typically the lecturers will have
spent a considerable amount of time with the company while preparing
the course, understanding their culture and requirements.
- Consortia:
- these courses are a mixture of the two
types above. Essentially they are custom courses designed for a
self-selecting group of businesses. The advantage here is that participants
get exposure to views and experiences of executives from other companies,
so broadening their outlooks and knowledge – and the costs
are shared among a number of businesses.
- Distance:
- distance learning courses allow participants
to study and interact without having to travel to the university
campus through use of the internet and other communications technology.
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