MBA Courses Turning 'Green'China is setting up special Master of Business Administration (MBA) courses in a bid to develop the economy further while protecting the environment.The courses will integrate environment and sustainable development subjects. This was announced at the International Conference on Environment and Business Education, which concluded in Beijing Sunday. At the three-day conference, officials from distinguished domestic and overseas universities discussed ways to implement the project as soon as possible. Premier Zhu Rongji sent a letter of congratulation to the conference, saying the discussions were very significant. The Business, Environment, Learning and Leadership project, first established by the World Resources Institute in the early 1990s, is an international environmental education programme. The project involves training staff to teach both environment and sustainable development, providing relevant teaching materials and connecting firms that face environmental challenges with the schools that train students to tackle them. Education has played a significant role over the past 20 years in making the public more aware of the importance of environmental protection, said Qu Geping, chairman of the Environmental and Resources Protection Committee of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC). But almost all previous environmental education courses were run just at primary schools, middle schools, colleges and universities. The project is the first time environmental subjects have been included in MBA courses. Among the 64 universities which have MBA courses, more than 30 have signed up to take part in the project, according to Cheng Siwei, vice-chairman of the Standing Committee of the NPC. |
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