Ballsbridge Business Centre (Ballsbridge Cyprus) has been registered in Cyprus as a European Administrative Centre of Ballsbridge University, in order to coordinate the international operations of the university. We profile the centre following it being recognised in the Education and Training Awards 2022. Ballsbridge University (BU) is a transnational online university which was chartered in the Commonwealth of Dominica, Curaçao Dutch Caribbean, Kingdom of the Netherlands and Delaware, USA. Affiliated professional institutions, colleges, departments and faculties are located and registered in several countries in order to provide students its online programmes of study. The learning qualifications target students from low income countries and those less privileged in the developed countries in order to support local communities. Ballsbridge University (BU) is accredited by Board of Quality Standards (BQS) which is an international quality assurance regulator that follows the Ballsbridge Qualification Framework (BQF) based on the Generally Accepted Accrediting Principles (GAAP) standards and procedures of the regulation policy, and provides a Statement of Comparability based on the European Qualifications Framework (EQF). The Board of Quality Standards is a member of the International Network for Quality Assurance Agencies in Higher Education (INQAAHE) and is listed in the European Transparency Register (European Commission) which is a database that lists organisations that trying to influence the law-making and policy implementation process of the European Union. Ballsbridge Cyprus international operations include some administrative BQS services as well. Ballsbridge Business Centre (Ballsbridge Cyprus) is also an accredited centre of Qualifi (Ofqual regulated awarding organisation), and also supports the Professional Membership procedures of the Institute of Chartered Professionals (ICP) registered in the UK. It also offers some operational services of the California University FCE, USA as an authorised exclusive representative with an office in Cyprus. It is an Institutional Member of the European Distance and E-Learning Network (EDEN, UK), and an Organisational Member of the National Career Development Association (NCDA, USA), as well as a proud partner of the Duolingo English Test. “The vision of Ballsbridge Cyprus is to become a pre-eminent recognised European as well global administrative centre in the academic community that could improve the quality of life of students worldwide,” states Assoc. Prof. Dr. Eleftherios M. Colocassides, the Dean of Ballsbridge Cyprus. “All partners are recognised in their field as professional practitioners or academics and are coming from different parts of the world. Most graduates get a job which could give them the opportunity to offer back to their communities all the knowledge they have earned to help them develop.” Online learning enables people to obtain international accredited high quality degrees at all levels, which delivered fully flexible, as well as οnline services that provide international recognitions, memberships and professional development. The mission of Ballsbridge Cyprus is to provide affordable ways of personal development to working adults, executives, local communities, ethnic minority groups, refugees, international and European students living in around the world. Ballsbridge Cyprus evaluates and grants academic credits from previous education studies completed in other institutions (Accreditation of Prior Learning- APL) or from Accreditation of Prior Experiential Learning (APEL) like to individuals of merit who have a distinguished record in their field of endeavour based on global and European guidelines and policies about recognition of credit sources. Recently, Ballsbridge Cyprus was recognised for its excellence in the Education and Training Awards 2022 and awarded the title of University Centre of the Year in Cyprus. Assoc. Prof. Dr E. M. Colocassides firmly believes that this achievement is predominantly down to the thriving online community that ‘Ballsbridge International’ team has worked hard to develop and maintain. “Our online academic team has a huge influence on what we do,” he enthuses. “It is an online campus which provides an ideal environment for our focus on pre-eminence and internationalism. This is true not only as a learning centre, but of global as a vibrant community which has long welcomed people from all over the world.” Company: Ballsbridge Business Centre (Ballsbridge Cyprus) Web Address: www.bucentre.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ballsbridge-business-centreballsbridge-cyprus-7b672b9a/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BallsbridgeCy Aug22280 University Centre of the Year – Cyprus
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