Success Story
Issue No. 32 - December/January
SA private educator makes its mark
Gibaran Learning Group is bringing its innovation back home after taking its business management learning techniques offshore and building a robust network of teaching centres in Europe and Asia.
Group marketing director Vinod Joel Abraham says while growth plans for the family business hinge on attracting ever-growing numbers of overseas students, Gibaran is committed to being part of Adelaide's Education City paradigm.
Now based in the west end precinct of Adelaide, Gibaran had its origins in Gibaran Management Consultants (GMC), a management consultancy founded more than 20 years ago by the present Chairman, Dr Selva Abraham.
Soon after the Vocational Education Employment and Training Act became law in 1994, GMC invested in the infrastructure required to deliver higher education qualifications.
Through gruelling government accreditation processes between 1995 and 1999 the enterprise, renamed Gibaran Business School, gained accreditation to award the full suite of higher education qualifications in management, from diplomas to doctorates.
Today, the institutions within the Gibaran Learning Group deliver qualification programs accredited within the Australian Qualifications Framework.
The Gibaran Learning Group includes four higher education institutions: Gibaran Business School (GBS), Entrepreneurship Institute Australia (EIA), Tourism Institute Australia (TIA) and Australian Institute of Business Administration (AIBA).
Each institution can award qualifications at Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) and Master of Business Administration (MBA) level.
GBS can also award qualifications at the Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Doctor of Business Administration (DBA), and Master of Management (M. Mgt) level. In fact, GBS is the only for-profit registered training organisation in Australia with these degree conferring powers.
While GBS continued to grow in South Australia, it decided to globalise, as forei...
