The Association of Event Venues (AEV) has launched academic endorsement for event management degrees, following two years of development.
The University of Greenwich’s MA International Events Management degree programme is the first to be endorsed.
The endorsement, created by the AEV academic working group, will provide students with the confidence that any university carrying the AEV endorsement logo has worked directly with the industry. In turn, employers will know graduates from those universities have the necessary skills and knowledge and their degrees are informed by the high professional, safety and service standards upheld by the AEV.
Endorsement is open to any AEV academic associate member, which currently includes founding partner University of Greenwich, plus Manchester Metropolitan University, University of East London, Leeds Beckett University, University of West London, Birmingham City University, University College Birmingham and Coventry University.
Course assessement is carried out by an endorsement panel formed of venue members of the AEV academic working group.
Rachel Parker, director of AEV, said: “This is an excellent addition to our academic associate membership and will be further complimented by the mentoring programme to be launched shortly. I’d like to thank the endorsement panel for their hard work and contributions and I look forward to all our academic associate members offering AEV-endorsed degrees.”
