Quality Educators Produce Quality Outcomes

It is essential to have assurance of the quality of the education you’re investing in. This means you should be guided by Quality Educators. However, the notion of a ‘quality’ educator is somewhat controversial and topical. Many educators fear that quality education means an imposed, inflexible approach to the development and implementation of the concept of ‘quality’ as it applies to the teaching process. It is quite the opposite view of quality education at the Syme Business School, where flexibility, relevance and application are considered to be the cornerstones of a quality educator.

SBS’s professional educators not only need to have high academic qualifications, but also need to have significant and relevant professional experience in the subject matter they are teaching. Further, they need to have good teaching evaluations from students. The ICMA has been using such quality educators (mostly Professors from prestigious universities worldwide) in its face-to-face and online programs over the last 20-years. The SBS will only draw from this pool of ICMA educators to design and deliver online its professional programs.

Senior Trainers

Professor Brendan O’Connell is Head of Accounting and a Professor at RMIT and also President of the Institute of Certified Management Accountants. He has worked as an analyst and bond dealer with major investment banks and has been employed in leading universities in the US, Australia and Asia including Monash University and the University of Richmond in Virginia.

Professor Janek Ratnatunga is CEO of Institute of Certified Management Accountants. He has held appointments at the University of Melbourne, Monash University and the Australian National University in Australia, and the Universities of Washington, Richmond and Rhode Island in the USA. Prior to his academic career he worked with KPMG.

Dr Chris D’Souza is currently the COO (Int) and CFO of CMA Australia. After a successful career spanning over three decades in professional practice as well as in corporate management, Dr Chris D’Souza decided to retire from full time corporate employment to work for the betterment of the accounting profession.