The past decade has seen a flurry of US and European business schools develop programmes in China, but the tide is now turning.
China Europe International Business School, the Shanghai-based business school set up with the European Union, plans to open a campus outside China – in Accra, the capital of Ghana.
In a move that gives a new twist to Sino-African relations, Ceibs has official approval from the Ghana Ministry of Education to offer business management courses, according to Pedro Nueno, Ceibs' executive president. Ceibs will offer executive short courses and its executive MBA programme in Accra – it already runs the world's largest EMBA programme.
The move is part of a Ghanaian government initiative to encourage overseas schools and universities to establish faculties in the country in an effort to improve the local population's skills base. “It's one area for investment in Ghana these days,” says Josiah Cobbah, associate dean of the business school at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration.
In recent years, 15 new universities that teach business and management, often in conjunction with technology, have sprung up in Ghana as part of a liberalisation of education.
Ceibs plans to attract students from across Africa to its Accra base, with classes taught in English to attract both African and Africa-based expatriate students. “Ceibs' new Africa programme will deliver world-class business management courses to a population of students who currently lack access to such programmes,” says Prof Nueno. “Now is the right time and Ghana is the right place for this venture.”
Ceibs has traditionally used a large number of professors from other business schools who fly into Shanghai for specific courses, but it says the Ghanaian programmes will be taught by its full-time faculty, and it has already signed up all the faculty it needs for the coming year.
Ceibs has also secured corporate funding for the school's inaugural year. The first courses to be taught will be executive short programmes.
Ceibs professor of innovation, Kwaku Atuahene-Gima, a Ghanaian national, conducted much of the initial groundwork for the expansion.
过去十年中，美国和欧洲的商学院纷纷在中国开设课程，如今这一潮流出现了逆转。
总部设在上海的中欧国际工商学院(Ceibs)由中国和欧盟(European Union)共同创办，该学院目前正计划在加纳首都阿克拉(Accra)开设第一所海外分校。
中欧国际工商学院执行院长佩德罗•雷诺(Pedro Nueno)表示，该学院已获得加纳教育部开设工商管理课程的正式批准，此举将给中非关系带来新的解读。中欧将在阿克拉开设高层管理短期课程及高管工商管理硕士课程(EMBA)——目前，中欧国际工商学院已拥有全球最大的EMBA课程。
加纳政府正鼓励海外的学院和大学在本国开办学校，以改善本国人口的技术基础。加纳经营及公共管理学院(Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration)商学院副院长乔舒亚•克巴(Josiah Cobbah)表示：“这是加纳近来的投资热点领域之一。”
近年来，随着教育自由化，加纳涌现了15所教授商业与管理的新大学，它们往往还开设技术课程。
中欧国际工商学院阿克拉分校计划吸引非洲各地的学员，以其英语授课的方式吸引非洲本土及移民学员。“中欧国际工商学院的新非洲项目将提供世界级的工商管理课程，这是非洲学员们目前接触不到的。”佩德罗•雷诺教授表示，“目前正是时机，而加纳是此举恰到好处的地点。”
中欧国际工商学院会通常从其他商学院聘请大量教授，飞往上海教授特定的课程，但该学院表示，此次加纳项目将由其全职教员担当，下一学年所需的教职人员已全部签约。
阿克拉分校首年的企业资金也已全部到位。最先开设的将是高层主管短期课程。
中欧国际工商学院加纳籍创新管理学教授鸿翥吉马(Kwaku Atuahene-Gima)承担了此次扩张计划的大量前期基础工作。