ABMA Signs MOU with BOTA

Following a recent visit to Botswana, the Association of Business Managers and Administrators is pleased to announce the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between the Botswana Training Authority (BOTA) and the ABMA.

The ABMA has worked closely with BOTA for a number of years in order to ensure ABMA students continue to receive the highest level of service and support, safe in the knowledge that the skills they have obtained continue to surpass industry expectation.

This agreement enables both organisations to continue to work towards safeguarding the future of ABMA students within Botswana who are looking to further their education at university or enter immediately into a wide range of industry sectors. These students will be armed with a qualification that is certificated by the ABMA and ratified by industry experts worldwide. 
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> Entrepreneurship

The ABMA is pleased to announce that the new Entrepreneurship qualifications, at Certificate, Diploma and Advanced Diploma levels, have now been launched. Entrepreneurship has been developed in response
to continued requests from students, universities and industry experts for qualifications that are designed to develop students' knowledge and skills. These qualifications will enable students to apply these skills that are at the forefront of industry expectation and ensure that ABMA students remain leading candidates for creating successful ventures and developing their business.

The ABMA welcomes applications from institutions, with suitable qualified teaching staff, to be considered to run this course.

Changes to ABMA Programmes

After careful consideration and to maintain its status as a leading provider of vocational education, the Association of Business Managers and Administrators (ABMA) has decided to re-evaluate its vocational qualifications in order to continue to better serve ABMA students worldwide.

The ABMA Advisory Board reviews its programme of vocational qualifications on a continual basis. This is to ensure that ABMA students remain leading candidates when entering the employment sector and enabling ABMA qualifications to remain relevant and valuable. Therefore, students can be assured that any alterations made to ABMA qualifications will enhance their future prospects whether they are about to undertake an ABMA course or indeed, are already studying with the ABMA. The following changes will be in effect for the September 2010 examination series:

•    ABMA qualifications will be structured at Certificate, Diploma and Advanced Diploma levels.

•    The Dissertation component of ABMA qualifications will be removed from the Certificate and Diploma levels and will now feature as a compulsory element of the Advanced Diploma.

•    The Business Foundation Certificate has been replaced by the ‘ABMA Foundation Award’ and will serve as an entry requirement onto any ABMA Certificate level qualification.

These changes have been made to ensure that ABMA qualifications are recognised by the vocational qualification authorities around the world and are therefore easily matched to comparable qualifications in other countries. This means that a student with an ABMA qualification can confidently expect to take their qualification to an employer in another country and have that qualification accepted without question.
The above changes are accompanied by a revision of ABMA’s fee structure. After four years without increasing the fees charged to students it has become necessary to introduce marginal increases to cover the costs of syllabi revision and the use of single examination centres throughout the many countries in which the ABMA operates. These changes in fee structure will be in effect as of 1st July 2010. In addition, the ABMA Advisory Board have chosen to revise the syllabi to ensure that ABMA students are studying qualifications that are both relevant and highly sought after by employers and institutes of further education worldwide, ensuring that ABMA students receive the best value for money of any international qualification.