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Singapore, 30 December 2003
E-Learning through Virtual School PurpleTrain.com presents a level learning playing field, irregardless of nationality or social and income backgrounds. As long as you are a lifelong learner desiring to upgrade your educational qualifications, whether for career advancement or for purposes of self-actualization, you can now choose from a myriad of courses from PurpleTrain.com and learn at your own time and pace.
The Wales MBA is designed to empower students with a superb grounding on a mix of specific and broad range of business oriented subjects directly applicable to today's knowledge-based economy. Learners can look forward to completing the programme between 2 and 5 years. In keeping with the tight monitoring of the programme by University of Wales and regular reviews with PurpleTrain.com, several improvements have been made. PurpleTrain.com wishes to announce that the pass mark has recently been revised from 50% to 40%. Both the coursework and the written examination must possess a pass mark of 40% in order to achieve a pass in the respective module. (The passing mark of 40% applies to new students who register from January 2004 onwards.) Students will be glad to note that the new threshold of passing is to align the assessment criteria with the normative practice of UK universities. Thus there is no compromise on the academic standard and quality of the course. Besides, Open Book Assessments will be conducted for the following
two modules:
This is to allow students to apply the concepts covered instead of expending time and effort on rote memories. To further enhance the flexibility of the programme, learners, who for some reasons are not able to complete the MBA, can still be eligible for 2 points of exit qualifications. This depends on the number of credit points they have achieved:
With these credit points, they will be able to seek credit exemptions when they decide to enroll for another MBA programme with other universities. The programme is made more attractive to busy professionals through its mode of delivery. Delivered fully online in an interactive e-Learning environment through PurpleTrain.com, it advocates students' participation, contribution and interaction among peers from different countries while giving total flexibility, convenience and control to the learners.
ABOUT PURPLETRAIN.COM By combining innovative technology with world-class training content, PurpleTrain.com offers companies and individuals a high value, quality and effective online training solution. Over 700 online courses are available, ranging from Master and Bachelor degree programmes, to diplomas and certificates in business and IT programmes. Our online learning community now stands at over 69,000 users. PurpleTrain.com is a 100%-owned venture of Informatics Holdings
Limited, a leading training and education provider listed on the
Singapore Stock Exchange. Informatics Holdings Limited is a world
class institute for quality lifelong learning services and made
the ranking among Forbes Global's 200 Best Small Companies in the
world. ABOUT INFORMATICS GROUP The Informatics Group, established in 1983, is a multinational corporation providing lifelong learning services in information technology and business management. Through its international franchising and licensing programmes and strategic acquisitions, Informatics presently has a global network of more than 614 centers spanning more than 49 countries. The company presently offers the following products: Informatics Institute, Thames Business School, Informatics Professional Development Centre, CAL Learning Centre, Cambridge Child Development Centre, RACC, NCC licensing and PurpleTrain.com licensing. For more information, please visit http://www.informaticsgroup.com For more information on course, please contact: Thang Tze Yian For enrollment enquiries, please contact : Adora Tan All trademarks and registered trademarks are property
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programme has received encouraging feedback since its first intake
in September 2001. The close supervision students received from
their e-facilitators has enabled every cohort to experience good
pass rates of between 80% and 100%.