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ABS signs up french and eastern european counterparts

The Association of Business School (ABS) is pleased to announce formal collaborations with the French Foundation for Management Education (FNEGE) and CEEMAN Management Development Association byway of reciprocal membership agreements.

This development cements exciting strategic alliances, which will ensure ABS and its partner organisations’ work is aligned going forwards, including: capacity building, joint events, research, publications, membership on committees and added value for each organisations membership base.

Vicky Robinson, Director of Communications for ABS said:

“This announcement comes at a pivotal moment in ABS’ development; we have recently announced our new strategic plan and cementing these partnership along with our existing reciprocal members means that we can deliver on our promise on a global scale going forwards.

Our Asia Pacific Business and Management Leadership Summit in KL in November is one example of how we are driving these partnerships forward – it is an exciting time to be involved with the Association“.

Professor Danica Purg, founding President of CEEMAN and founding and current President of the IEDC-Bled School of Management said:

“I am delighted to see ABS and CEEMAN signing the partnership agreement, which will certainly pave the way to closer and more productive future collaboration in a number of areas. We have a lot to share with each other and to learn from each other,”

Pierre-Louis Dubois, Secretary General of FNEGE was equally thrilled to cement the relationship:

“We have worked with ABS for the past four years and the partnership has been very successful – this has been reflected by many joined up initiatives including research studies, seminars, reports and so on, I and my colleagues are really pleased that this relationship is now formal and we can work cross collaboratively together”.

Notes to editors:

1. The ABS sets the agenda for business and management education in the UK with an increasingly international environment. It develops influential policies and promotes, communicates and lobbies these at local, national and international levels as appropriate.

TheABSrepresents all of the business schools in the UK. Collectively, they provide business and management education for over 250,000 students a year.

ABSis a member of The European Quality Link (EQUAL) - the international association of quality assessment and accreditation agencies in the field of European management education at the Brussels - based [European Foundation for Management Development](http://www.efmd.org/? target=) (Efmd).

ABS is a registered charity (founded in 1992) with income derived through annual subscriptions, projects and other activities.

ABS now has reciprocal arrangements with: Arab Society of Faculties of Business, Economics and Political Sciences (BEPS) , Association of Asia Pacific Business Schools, Association of Graduate Recruiters, Baltic Management Development Association, British Council , Canadian Federation of Business School Deans , Chartered Institute of Public Relationsand the European Foundation for Management Development

2. CEEMAN

CEEMAN is an international management development association established in 1993 with the aim of accelerating the growth in quality of management development in central and eastern Europe. It is a global network of management development institutions interested in quality of education and innovations in this field, as well as in the broad area of subjects related to change. CEEMAN has expanded to include 200 institutional and individual members from 50 countries in Europe, North America, Latin America and Asia.

www.ceeman.org

3. French Foundation for Management Education(FNEGE)

At the very heart of the French management education, FNEGE has for over 40 years been instrumental in the development and the quality of management education in France. FNEGE has spearheaded the creation of a nationally constituted body of management Faculty drawn from institutions within its network. FNEGE is managed jointly by Government officials and representatives from the private sector.

http://www.fnege.org/

For further information please contact Victoria Robinson, Director of Communications, The Association of Business Schools. Tel: 020 7388 0007. Email: vrobinson@the-abs.org.uk

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