A study tour of the school in Netherlands is now mandatory graduation requirement for Master of Business Administration students at Business School Netherlands from Nigeria.

The intensive study tour would enable students in the highbrow programme imbibe in full the culture and values of the leading provider of MBA education in the Netherlands.

Mr. Lere Baale, CEO of Business School Netherlands in Nigeria, disclosed this at a media briefing in Lagos attended by News Express.

Business School Netherlands clocks 25 years in 2013 and the school has outlined a range of activities to mark its Silver Jubilee. BSN is in its 10^th year in Nigeria and has conferred its MBA on 160 graduands in the period.

Baale disclosed the further digitisation of course content in the school as one of the ways to enable students access materials readily. All MBA students would now receive their coursework pre-loaded on customised Ipads to “keep them on the same page with students in other outreaches worldwide.”

The Ipads would contain coursework, study notes, as well as case studies to enable the executives on the programme have easy access to referral materials. It is also connected to a global library of reference materials, starting with the BSN’s own library in Netherlands.

On the numerous benefits of the study kit, Baale said: “The Ipads are heavily discounted and places at the disposal of students a lifetime study tools and research materials that would support career transformation as is often required of MBA graduates.”

During the briefing, BSN displayed its new facilities at Ikeja GRA complete with classrooms, meeting rooms, libraries and other tools to aid students.

The BSN MBA is an executive education programme built on the action-learning paradigm pioneered by Business School Netherlands. Students apply their study to their work places as they go along leading to the transformational change that the MBA should create in the lives and careers of its recipients.

He consequently enjoined individuals and employers that desire to acquire and expose their employees to the best MBA education to take advantage of the BSN outreach centres in Nigeria to actualise their dreams.

•Photo: BSN Nigeria CEO, Lere Baale.