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design education
... what lies ahead
... design innovation, universal convergence with the objective to achieving effective cross-flow of logistics, know-how and human resource management bends the learning curve that much more whereupon new subjects need to be offered, taught and facilitated to cope with world demands on knowledge-based human resource development.
Encouraging life-long education is an integral part of ICIAD's global commitment and policy towards promoting excellence in the professional practice of design. Often, the difference between good and being among the best is differentiated only by commitment to, and pursuit of quality education.
The distinct privilege of being partnered with among the world's most esteemed institutions of higher learning, continued and life-long learning options to acquire such specialized knowledge in the field of
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Corporate Real Estate Management
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Facilities Management
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Hotel Operations Management
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Hospitality & Retail Management
: Retail & Interior Design
: Hospitality & Interior Design
and specific electives which include
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Colour Studies - Colour Psychology
: Colour Trends and its influence on Marketing of Products
: Lighting Planning
: Lighting Technology
become immediately accessible through ICIAD's facilitating of such programs designed as Executive Courses, many leading to the attainment of top-up degree qualifications from accredited universities, working with the organization's international education partners.
Courses offered via several modes of delivery -
: Time-tabled lectures
: Seminars
: Symposiums
: Workshops
: Professional Practice Internship programs
: e-Learning
: Distance Learning
often including overseas educational trips, all form a major part of ICIAD and their academic partners' salient program initiatives.
Courses are validated by partner universities associated with the delivery and implementation of these programs.
New paradigms and advances in building design and construction technology, and also the services and hospitality industries necessitate the continued pursuit of extended studies in various skills, whether academic or vocational to keep in pace with a rapidly growing global workforce stretching across non-territorial plains in today's borderless business world. It demands upon the design professional to acquire new knowledge-based skills to cope with constant changes in the building, construction and service industry, to say the least.