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Online MBA ForumSunday, September 03, 2006Chinese Puzzle
My Chinese contact for a joint MBA program is becoming interesting. We have started to talk about assessment and the need for academic rigour. The Chinese approach seems to be that they want to know exactly what each mark is for, and in what circumstances it gets awarded. Our approach is that although marks are awarded for some specific items, there are also marks that can be awarded because of the general quality of the work.
Rules seem all important for the Chinese when they are considering this MBA; an attitude that I found (with a different twist) in Russia. We are much more flexible when we are considering graduate degrees, and the importance for us is to have original work, or work that is done using other academic work as reference, but being able to analyse and synthesize. We need to hammer out these differences now; if we have these differences with the institution, I can only surmise that the students will be even harder to deal with. # posted by Mary @ 2:24 PM
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I’m not sure about MBA programs and marking but I’m with you on the cultural differences. As you know I worked out in Russia as well, in fact still do.
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I’ve just had a hassle with a supplier: he wanted to be paid after 30 days, which is fair enough. Fairly standard sort of idea actually. But his 30 days was 30 days from when he’d started the process of sending the goods to me. My idea of 30 days is of course after I’ve received and checked the goods. He simply could not see what I have been on about, that we have to allow for the (two to three weeks) the goods spend in transit. As I say, I’m not sure of the relevance of this to MBA programs but something as simple as this does show how cultural differences have to be bridged. Really, just what is the meaning of 30 day payment terms? Is it from hte date that Russain customs fills out the paperwork or from when goods are received? And if we can get confused about that, well, I can see the problems you might have with grading. # posted by failingeconomist : 4:35 AM
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