Northumbria
University’s Newcastle Business School has been named among a select group of
international education providers as a Principles for Responsible Management
Education (PRME) Champion for 2024 - 2025.
An initiative of
the United Nations Global Compact, the 47 PRME Champions represent a group of
dedicated business and management schools that are committed to working
collaboratively to develop and promote activities that address shared barriers
for the PRME community, and which deliver value for business and society at
large. Newcastle Business School became a Signatory to PRME in 2014 - and has
been a Champion School since 2019.
The focus of the
2024-2025 Champions cycle will be on advancing the re-commitment to the
refreshed Seven Principles of PRME; engagement in Thematic Roundtables for
generating ideas and solutions to institutional challenges within business
schools that support the PRME strategy; and aligning with the vision of the
United Nations Global Compact in completing actions toward achieving the
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Additionally, the 2024-2025 Champions
will be essential in curating content to contribute to PRME Commons - the
upcoming digital space for accountability, exchanges and learning between
members of the PRME community.
As a flagship PRME
programme, the PRME Champions Programme provides faculty members with a space
for developing and sharing collaborative educational methods and a ‘living lab’
for ambitious new ideas for developing the next generation of
sustainability-driven business schools and management-related higher education
institutions in support of the SDGs.
Dr Alex Hope, Deputy
Faculty Pro Vice-Chancellor for Business and Law at Northumbria and a member of
the global board for PRME, said: “We are delighted to continue working alongside
the other PRME schools to champion the principles of responsible management
education. As long-standing members our renewed status as a PRME Champion
chimes with Newcastle Business School’s aims to be a
force for good in the North East of England and beyond by delivering
professionally relevant, research-engaged education that develops future
leaders who will help shape sustainable businesses and communities. It also
aligns closely with Northumbria University’s wider strategic ambitions around the quality of our research, our contribution
to social mobility and enabling graduate employability.”
Founded in 2007, PRME’s mission is to
transform management education and develop the responsible decision-makers of
tomorrow to advance sustainable development.
