A reputable local educational institutions offering Transnational Education in the Philippines is seeking potential UK university partners in its plan to establish a fully accredited Business School in the country.

The local institutional partner has the unique advantage of having gotten the recognition of the Philippines’ Commission on Higher Education (CHED) as a transnational education provider and is also currently running one of the few accredited international schools in the Philippines.

Broad strokes around this plan include:
• The new business school will be designed as a 4-year degree program engineered backward to be aligned and equivalent to UK degrees. This would allow the institution and foreign partners to adopt the most effective delivery models (1+3, 2+2, 3+1)
• The new business school will not be saddled with legacy courses and staff that current schools have to address as CHED moves to a Bologna Accord compliant system.
• The institution's international school has a growing Grades 11 and 12 student population that can feed the new business school.
• The new business school plans to offer 2-3 undergraduate business tracks in the Philippines and at least one postgraduate track and can act as a feeder to programs that must be completed either online or onshore in the foreign partner’s main campus.
• The new business school intends to offer co-branded degrees with its foreign university partners or offer graduates two degrees upon completion of their studies (one from the new business school and one from the foreign partner university).
• The new school can gear its research to be aligned with its partner schools.
• The new business school is in line with the institution's vision “to bring the best of international education to the Philippines”.

In line with this, their Executive Director will be visiting the UK this October 2015 to already hold discussions with a few potential partner universities in the UK. We are extending this invitation to all the other UK universities who might be interested in meeting and exploring the possible partnership.

Universities offering business programmes either for undergraduate or postgraduate, who might be interested may express their interest through the British Council.
Please e-mail Hernando Salvador, our SIEM Lead for the Philippines to assist in arranging your meeting with its visiting representative.