The Institute of Management Consultants of Nigeria recognized by the Federal Government of Nigeria is a Member of the International Council of Management Consulting Institutes (IMCI) whose Corporate Headquarters is in the United States of America with Members all over the world, providing training to Government Officials, University Authorities and other Tertiary Institutions and individuals at all levels in the academic and professional spectrum and are not within the scope of the traditional campus based Primary, Secondary and University institutions to be approved by the Ministry of Education with independent buildings and classrooms, equipped with the state-of the Art facilities as parameters; in most cases, such requirement does not apply to the Management Consulting Institutes aside from registration with the Corporate Affairs Commission and professional Membership either as Corporate body or as Individual quite unlike the aforementioned traditional campus based institutions.
The Management Consultants and other professionals are mobile in their operations quite unlike the campus based institutions with regular classroom routine works and working. Those professional bodies work in partnership with the traditional institutions approved by the Ministry of Education as training Consultants.
Evidently, during the
COVID 19 Survival Fund Grant Awards, only the Staff of the Management
Consulting Institutes were paid and not in the name of the institutes; but the
traditional institutions approved by the Ministry of Education were paid both
in the name of the institution and in the name of individual staff to make the
difference like the case of Delcan Distance Learning Consult (as division of G.
Delcan International Services).
As Consultants, they are given greater
autonomy to provide training to those
officials in the Ministry of Education including the formulation and
preparation of the Educational Curriculum at all levels (Primary, Secondary,
Polytechnics, University and other
tertiary institutions) and the required State of the Art facilities based on
the current world trend and
including Staff and Management of the
Nigerian Universities Commission (NUC) assigned for the Assessment and
Evaluation of the required academic standard
of the Universities and other tertiary institutions in collaboration with
foreign Experts most preferably from the Advanced Countries based on individual
area of expertise.
They are guided by
international Legal Advisers who are also Members of the aforementioned
professional body in the discharge of individual's professional obligation at
all levels.
Association with Management Consulting
Institutes
One of the Prior
Approval Guidelines given by the Federal Ministry of Education is the
Incorporation of the traditional Institution with the Corporate Affairs
Commission of Nigeria as a Limited
Lability Entity, to be given the right to form Association or Partnership
with any organization as stipulated in the Memorandum and Article of
Association by the Corporate Affairs Commission of Nigeria.
Consequently, private
institutions Incorporated and Approved by the Ministry of Education could
affiliate to a Management Consulting Institute for her own benefits as
legitimate such as providing distance learning programme and other training
related activities using her required facilities based on terms and condition agreed upon.
Consequently, most Private
Universities are accredited by several professional organizations aside from
government accreditation especially if she had been granted Chartered status as
an autonomous institution exempted from regular assessment and evaluation checks
by the educational authorities.
Individual Membership Qualification
Members of
professional bodies are automatically accredited depending on their area of
expertise and not necessary the qualification of individual membership grade
level. Take as example, if the government requires the service of a Management Consulting
firm, may first of all request from the Association as to ensure that the
Consultant is a member of a recognized professional body that can provide the
service.
The Association would
check from the list of registered Consultants that had the technical know-how
in that field which she would recommend to the Government officials. At this
point, qualification and grade level of membership may not apply in most cases
based on the fact that most Consultants only had the technical experience and
not the academic qualification and taking into consideration the “
Accreditation of Prior Learning Experience Award” endorsed by UNESCO. In most
cases, those with the conventional University degrees cannot provide the
service but a member of very lower qualification that already had the technical
know-how in that field who had never studied in the classroom but already had
been accredited of his or her expertise being a member of a recognized
professional body would be recommended.
Take as an example, if
a Government official car having a technical hitch along the road, the driver
may temporary employ a roadside mechanic who had the tools and technical skill
already to rectify the fault in the engine and pay him if he does the job
successfully. The Government official does not request for the qualification of
the technician before he handles the Government official car likewise in most
government offices.
Consequently, it
becomes very necessary to become a member in any recognized professional body
of your carrier in order to boost your professional expertise and paying
quarterly or yearly membership fees depending on your grade level of membership
in the Association.
Based on this
development, most private Universities are accredited by several professional
organizations across the globe like the European-American University. Such
accreditation also extend to her graduates across the globe for their
recognition in their various filed of expertise as graduates from accredited Universities specially as one of
the Universities awarding the Certificates, Diploma and Degrees based on the
Accreditation of Prior Learning Assessment Awards as endorsed by UNESCO.
