New Executive Masters Program for International Professionals

Bangkok--Mar 26--Curtin University of Technology Future corporate, social, professional and diplomatic leaders are among the targets of a new multi-disciplinary masters program, aimed at preparing them for the globalised world of the 21st century. Unlike most traditional masters programs that are generally based on disciplinary boundaries, the Executive Masters of International Studies (EMIS) takes a multi-disciplinary approach backed up by university-wide expertise. This challenging new program is designed to provide a global outlook, values and competencies to a broad range of professionals. Participants are expected to be drawn from across the world, particularly from South East Asian countries. Offered by the prestigious John Curtin International Institute (JCII) at Curtin University of Technology in Western Australia, the EMIS will be taught by senior academics from across Curtin's diverse faculties and will also involve visiting academics and international business leaders. Program Chair, Professor Samir Chatterjee, said the EMIS responds to the complexity of the 21st century where both specialisation and a broad outlook are needed. The program is due to be launched from the year 2000 and hopes to attract both young professionals as well as mature corporate leaders from fields including business, science and technology, agriculture, health, and social sciences. "The challenges of the new millennium will mean that doing a discipline-based masters will no longer be sufficient," Professor Chatterjee said. " The EMIS is a global program for people who want to lead their professions and organisations. "The combination of global outlook and advanced specialisation, with hands-on project work, will provide the participants with an edge that is currently unavailable anywhere else. "This course is aimed at executives and we would expect applicants will be people such as those going into diplomatic service, journalism, running multinational companies, or representing Australia in senior government services. In the new millennium, no successful executive will really be able to practice their profession without having a global outlook." The EMIS has compulsory core components and advanced specialisations such as international trade, international technology and telecommunication. The unique masters program will have several of the compulsory units offered on-line via the world wide web but, for the first three years will be based at Curtin's Western Australian campus at Bentley. From 2004 most of the EMIS will be available through flexible on-line delivery systems. The EMIS is very appropriately being offered by the JCII - the educational heart of Curtin's new $35 million John Curtin Centre, dedicated to Australia's World War II Prime Minister. One of the key roles of the JCII is to bring together the present and future business and political leaders from Australia, the United States and the countries of the Asian, Indian Ocean and Pacific Rim, to study and research key issues influencing the region's future. "The JCII is the appropriate vehicle for collaborating across Curtin's university-wide expertise. We are bringing together the considerable professional experience and knowledge housed in Curtin's different schools, to create the maximum synergy. "The EMIS program will have continuous input from visiting scholars from around the world, as well as a core faculty drawn from the university-wide expertise of Curtin's professionals." Curtin University of Technology has one of Australia's highest cohorts of international students (representing about 24 per cent of the total student body) and more than half Western Australia's total. It has remained one of the top four Australian destinations for international students over the last 10 years and is a leader in international and cross-cultural education. Further information , please contact Ms Sally Rowe Media Coordinator Curtin University of Technology Tel: (+ 61 8) 9266 2793 Mobile: 0417 945 889 E-mail: [email protected] Web: http://www.curtin.edu.au/ecr.html Professor Sam Chatterjee Program Chair Masters of International Studies Curtin University of Technology Tel: ( + 61 8) 9266 4234 E-mail: [email protected] Web: http://www.cbs.curtin.edu.au/man/index.htm End.

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