I am delighted to have been asked by Leighton Andrews, the Minister for Education, to be part of his working group that is examining online digital learning and how the Welsh Government can support the higher education sector in this growing field. I first became involved in this area back in the early 1990s, when I was course development leader for Small Business Management on the MBA (Distance Learning) at Durham University. I was then involved in developing an online MBA whilst at Bangor University in the 1990s , and more recently have been asked to head up a new initiative for Enterprise and Innovation Education within the University of Wales (which has been tasked by the Vice Chancellor to develop online MBA programmes in entrepreneurship and innovation). This includes the online MBA4PHD initiative I am collaborating on with Turku University and the University of Gothenberg. According to the Welsh Government, Welsh Universities are already engaged in a range of act...
Entrepreneurship, innovation and the economy