Chakib Bouayad
Nationality:
Moroccan
Degree: MBA with Human Resource Management
Graduated: 2007
Business and Education seem to go together in
London. The number of Business Education institutions in this city
is high enough to explain the avant-garde position London now
occupies among the world capital cities of business and finance.
Yet, most students who must make the choice of which Business
school to enrol in find that a daunting task. The variety of
programmes on offer is such that choice is made even more
difficult, and the reputations of schools are constantly in a state
of ebb and flow.
That being the situation, I decided to base my
choice of which school to take on my personal experience as an
educator. Top-tier schools often tend to occupy the first ten
positions in ranking tables. True, but that is statistics. And
statistics can be used to support any claim. Like in first league
football clubs, the management allows membership only to a select
few players, brands them through glamorous media campaigns,
attracts business in the form of ticket and membership sales, and
that way they can put a strong claim on success. Such managements
have still to convince the public about the robustness of that
claim by allowing more mainstream players to figure among their
teams and continue to attain the same levels of success. Until that
happens, whatever sign of excellence they achieve will be
ascribed to players rather than management’s skills. The analogy
with Business schools should be clear.
Webster was my school of choice because it
doesn’t shy away from accepting mainstream students like me
alongside students with a good background in business studies and
yet manages to turn that variety of input levels into academically
and professionally coherent output standards. Webster does that
through a faculty team whose members strive to balance teaching on
the subject with training in the skills relevant to that subject.
Student involvement is such that no one is left out, and when that
happens to be the case –which is rare-, Webster draws that student
out of the course for further advice and academic orientation. I
have heard of places which expect you to know it all, or almost,
before you could be offered a place.
Webster was also my school of choice because
of the patience and the individual attention every student is
entitled to once part of the school. Students are encouraged to
express their opinion on any aspect of their life at the school,
those opinions are taken into consideration, and action often
follows in the form of careful changes and adjustments. Now that I
am approaching the end of my programme, I can say with a lot of
confidence that the value I got from my course outweighs the money
I spent in connection with it.
Thank you Webster for having given me and lots
of other students quality education, by quality faculty, in a
quality setting ( London Regent’s ).
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