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We can accredit the outcomes…
IMCA Socrates™ focuses on workplace outcomes
and applications, and in so doing we aim to ensure that our
professional awards have comparable levels of rigour and attainment
to their equivalent academic award. To secure this, we draw
extensively on independent assessors who hold senior academic
roles. Second, the levels of entry to our awards framework are
determined by the participant's (termed an 'associate') level
of experience and seniority. For example, only those with current,
senior managerial roles may register for pathways leading to
Master and Doctoral professional degrees by action learning
as participants must be able to demonstrate tangible, strategic
level outcomes in order to qualify. The core themes of our work
at all levels are related to evidence of the associate's ability
to: (i) function effectively in an organizational environment;
(ii) demonstrate managerial/supervisory effectiveness and (iii)
assume responsibility for on-going personal development by action
learning.
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Why do managers learn best at work?
Why does action learning help managers to become better managers?
Our focus on outputs actually helps busy professionals to make
the most of the development opportunities that you provide.
Above all, it helps them to stay actively engaged in shaping
and implementing applications as they accumulate credit towards
their qualification.
As the process of action learning lays particular emphasis
on evidence of learning and application, IMCA's quality assurance
system is founded upon ISO 9001-2000 compliant process and design
protocols and independent strategic monitoring and verification.
IMCA espouses a customer-driven approach to quality assurance,
using an incremental improvement audit system that involves
mandatory self review reporting, coupled with independent monitoring
and feedback. All IMCA qualification work is subject to: (i)
'in progress' outcomes sampling by a member of the IMCA Socrates™
independent advisory panel (IAP), (ii) associate feedback by
evaluation questionnaire and (iii) independent external assessment.
To qualify, all IMCA associates must undergo an oral (viva voce)
examination and as with most members of the IAP, our external
examiners are mainly senior academics. External examiners are
entitled to review the associate's entire portfolio of assessed
work and are empowered to moderate any assessed mark within
a ten percent range.
These provisions enable IMCA to ensure that its professional
awards are relevant to the needs of managers and comparable
to equivalent levels of traditional academic attainment.
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IMCA Socrates™ independent advisory panel
Independent advisory panel members
IMCA Programmes
The programmes offered, and awards granted, from IMCA and Revans University are conducted under the Education Reform Act's provisions for foreign universities to operate in the UK. They are deliberately action learning programmes, i.e. not following traditional academic pedagogical paradigms. As such they are not intended to and as such do not lead to degrees that are Listed by the UK's Department of Education. However, they have been widely accepted since 1982 by industry and universities as appropriate for action learning in some 44 countries across the world. Any potential students contemplating an IMCA and Revans University programme with a view to using the awards as the basis for further academic or career development/ salary increments etc. should satisfy themselves that the action learning approach is appropriate for such further aspirations. If action learning is felt not to be appropriate then IMCA and Revans University programmes should be eschewed.
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