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variety of issues ranging from teaching and learning aspects, to administrative support and provided
facilities. We strongly encourage students to spend time and provide details and comments even
though it is reasonable that after the long weekend students may be too tired to do so. Most of the
comments that we do receive are positive and strongly support the high evaluations presented in
table 3 and only very minor issues have been reported. Lastly, it is important to mention that it is not
just the questionnaires that provide us evidence on the success of the MSc in BMT programme. Over
the long weekend many opportunities arise for informal meetings between students and academic
staff. We highly value the feedback provided in such occasions due to the fact that discussions occur
in a more relaxed and informal setting like lunch breaks and dinner outings.
6. Conclusion
This paper presented the MSc in Business Management and Technology inter-disciplinary
postgraduate programme as a successful case of providing entrepreneurship education to nonbusiness
students. The case responds to the identified literature gap of enabling effective knowledge
transfer from the academia to the industry through delivering entrepreneurship education in nonbusiness
studies, since it is perceived that technical/scientific students have greater success chances
in entrepreneurship. The MSc in BMT programme is offered by the UoS International Faculty, City
College (Thessaloniki, Greece) and is delivered internationally (in Sofia, Bulgaria and Tirana, Albania)
in executive mode (one long weekend of classes per month). The programme is jointly delivered by
the Computer Science and Business Administration and Economics Departments using the Flying
Faculty model, an innovative delivery model which provides effective and high quality provision of
higher education. The model integrates extensive use of ICT for communication and collaboration
between students and academic staff and assures quality through a diverse set of quality assurance
mechanisms. The programme has been running successfully for two academic years and student
satisfaction and their perception of the quality of education is at the highest levels. We strongly
believe that this model can serve as a good reference to other higher education institutions that wish
to respond to the latest trends and demands in entrepreneurial higher education for non-business
students.
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