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Founders of innovative, technology-oriented and scalable start-ups can apply for the program offered by the SpinLab – The HHL Accelerator between January 1 and 15, 2015, at www.spinlab.co

There are four Swiss business schools that made the top 200 MBA ranking among more than 12’000 business schools worldwide in the QS Global 200 Business Schools Report 2014-15, released end of November. Among them, on a country level, IMD ranks #1, University of St. Gallen #2, Business School Lausanne (BSL) #3, and University of Geneva’s International Organizations MBA is newly listed in this ranking as #4 in Switzerland.

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Invitation for students to participate in this 3-week Certificate Program, offered by The University Centre for Business Management - Fondazione CUOA, a non-profit foundation, one of the most active centers of management training in Europe.

On 21 November 2014, Prof. Danica Purg, CEEMAN President, signed a cooperation agreement between CEEMAN and the newly established EQUAA – Education Quality Accreditation Agency for Latin America, headquartered in Lima, Peru and represented by its Executive Director Eric Talavera Campbell.

On 18th of November representatives of the Saitama University visited ALMA University. As part of Japanese delegation the University visited: Vice President Seiichiro Nakabayashi, Vice President Hiroaki Ito and Professor Makoto Nagasawa.

On the 27th of November, 2014 a roundtable session “Kazakhstan-Netherlands: business partnership perspectives” was held in the Almaty with the participation of Almaty Management University honorary professor, Senator of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, former President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), Mr. Rene van der Linden.

With more than 500 colleges analyzed, there are 68 that have developed online MBAs that truly stand out; they have full accreditation from the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), low student-teacher ratios, and faculty with demonstrated excellence in business and management. See which schools have the Best Online MBA Programs for 2015.

A winner of the UK Royal Award for business development, now vice president of the British University in Egypt, prof. David Kirby became an honorary professor in Almaty Management University (ALMA University), formerly IAB. ALMA University has held a dedication ceremony of David Kirby to an honorary professor of the university. The candidacy of Mr. Kirby was unanimously approved by the members of the Academic Council. Prior to the election procedure, guest’s meetings were held with the staff of the ALMA University, the students and the audience where the professor talked about what is entrepreneurial university, how they appeared in UK, shared his vision of how to develop entrepreneurship education in Kazakhstan. David Kirby came to Kazakhstan on ALMA University (formerly IAB) invitation to take part in the VI Economic Forum of national business "Expert-200-Kazakhstan", where Almaty Management University acted as the exclusive educational partner.

ALMA University acted as the exclusive educational partner of the «Kazakhstan Expert 200» Forum in Astana and became the organizer of two panel discussions on innovation and entrepreneurship.