Working in Collaboration

               Working with the Institute for Professional Excellence
                 (Oxford Centre for Mission Studies)
             & a UK University

                                  We are providing the following programmes in work-based learning

[a] Continuing Professional Development Credits, Master-Level (up to 60 credits)
This can be offered in a duration of up to one year. It involves significant amount of
class learning , placement , and visits to professional centres

[b] MSc in Professional Practice (with PG Cert/Diploma options)
This level involves a 2- year period and requires a total of 4 weeks of residential intensives.
An approved work base is also required.

[c] MPhil/PhD in Professional Practice
This level normally requires a period of 3 years of full time study of 5 years of part-time study.

Each of these programmes will run from approved centres internationally.
Certificates and degrees are awarded by a UK University.



Interested persons must email their interest to varsitycentres@yahoo.com

House-keeping facilitators for these programmes who are authorised to direct to queries are:


















                                  












The established Memorials include




S.A.R.I. Don Pascal Bandeira Moreira (1920 – 2006), King
of Gothia and heir of the Byzantine Empire, placed the  Royalty
of Locrida in the hands of Bishop Henry Kontor, Primate of the
Apostolic Congress of Great Britain and Resident  Bishop of
the Institute for Community and Development Studies, in
April 2004.


S.A.R.I. Don Moreira died on 7th July 2006.


Bishop Henry, being of African descent, has  connected  the
House of Locrida to Augustinian treasures and  contributions
in Great Britain and wider Europe.


The Primate has dedicated this memorial to advanced research
into African participation in ancient Europe and contributions
towards the evolving of modern Europe. He invites the clergy,
scholars, and nobles internationally to participate in this adventure.






This Memorial focuses on lessons to learn from the efforts and
courage of Governor Guggisberg. It aims to assist in North-South
Economic Development Dialogue.

Guggisberg was the first British Governor (and the first European
-governor) to draw up and implement a development plan in modern
African history. Though his initiative was soon followed by the other
governors, none of them was able to achieve the high degree of
success as he did. Within a matter of eight years of his administration
(1919-27), Governor Guggisberg did so much as an individual to
establish an educational foundation that changed every other aspect
of the economic and social life of Ghana forever.

His reform measures encountered very stiff opposition from within and without the country, because it was the time when the doctrines of the classical economists such as Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Sir Alfred Marshall, Professor Pigou (of balanced budget) held the sway. For example, to go contrary to the popular doctrines and establish a development programme through deficit financing was unheard of in the pre-Keynesian times. Yet he created a path that connected the development of the physical and social infrastructure of a developing country (in ways that accrued money to the Government for investment) to a good programme of nation-wide education, and from there to set the stage for the economic and social transformation of the country.



This Memorial brings together field  work experiences for
the purpose of advancing the expertise available for                                                  Church-and-community leadership ministry. It also                                                       focuses on the observation and conviction of Andrew Walls,                                                             Scottish Methodist Minister in the UK. Walls is convinced                                                                  that “We begin the new century with a post-Christian West,                                                                and a post-Western Christianity. Building archival resources                                                             in Africa, Asia and Latin America is a matter of survival for                                                              Christians everywhere. Given that theological reflection                                                                      arises out of the lived faith experience of a community, if it                                                               doesn’t happen in the South, there won’t be theological
studies  anywhere much worth caring about”.


The Rev Henry Okoampa Agyemang (1927-2001) served primarily through the Presbyterian Church of Ghana. This Church was birthed from a missionary work from Scotland, UK. He managed to combine roles as a headteacher, catechist, national youth minister, district presbytery chair, senior church minister, member of the synod, and constitutional local council chair for a period of nearly forty years in active Christian ministry.




































































Action: Interested participant must enquire for the up-coming events for a particular Memorial.


Maximilian International University College Institutions embrace the Apostolic Congress of Great Britain and the Institute for Community and Development Studies, together with their field partners. Information and other activities of these bodies could be found at www.partnershipventure.com

The Rev Henry Okoampa Agyemang                      (1927- 2001)
This Memorial aims to work with others internationally to take forward the achievements of the graduates in community and development studies.

The Rev. George studied the models at advanced leadership level at the Institute for Community and Development Studies in the UK in 1995/96, and for ten (10) years after his graduation he practised at the field continuously and successfully. He died on 25th March 2006.

He emerged as an effective Church-and-community leader who shaped and grounded various specialism, right in the wave of Church growth movement in Ghana. He helped to shape almost one hundred Church ministers into specific ministry specialism, from pastors to social entrepreneurs, and from liaison staff to mission executives. Such efforts have made it practical for the Churches in his region to work confidently and professionally with urban executives and social planners.
[B] Governor Guggisberg Foundation Lectures and Seminars
[C] The Rev. Okoampa Agyemang Memorial Leadership Foundation
Memorials & Family Foundations
Welcome to
MAXIMILIAN INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE
College of International Entrepreneurs (CIE)

For Ghana-based studies, click here for a proposed guiding sketch
Rev. Sujin Prassanna Selvarajah
at work
with Bishop Henry Kontor in London
Rev. Regina Ama Konadu
Mr. Kwame Otti
Rev. Sujin P Selvarajah

The College of International Entrepreneurs is a life-sharing organization.  It is UK based,and collaborate with the maximilian international university college, particularly in developing business school programmes. It offers exercises and programmes in entrepreneurship, development practice, sector management, theology, and philosophy. 

The programmes are at practitioner and graduate levels. They are for emerging entrepreneurs and executives. Members commit to support the development of community college and community faculties. They also commit to raise new entrepreneurs for the expanding or prospective markets.

As may be deemed necessary, a programme may embrace some memorial activities of a distinguished or world-class leader in a particular field of endeavour.

For the 4-year period between January 2007 and December 2010, the College will be giving special attention to programmes in North-South Investment Deals,which are aimed at fostering strategic investments of talents and resourcesto raise standards of living.  That will fall within a broader educational framework in North-South Economic Development Dialogue.

The College builds its spiritual foundations from the classical works of St Maximus.
The Saint provided an integrative cosmic vision in which the economies of creation-deification on the one hand, and intervention-redemption on the other, merge into a unique wholeness.  He expounded the integrative cosmic vision as a 'mystery hidden throughout the ages' that reveals the grand plan of God in Christ (Colossians 1:26). The Saint was also an internationalist in practice.

Membership of the College is open to people of various endeavours to participate. 
Interested persons including executives, investors, organisations, students,
researchers, practitioners, and corporate leaders must initially complete the for
m at this website. We shall then contact the person or the organization, and take
the interest forward.
Or, please email directly to icdsabcd@yahoo.com
The Practitioner Base for Advanced Learning
At Maximilian, the student starts a course from the position of a practitioner. He/She proceeds to become a reflective practitioner and then a research practitioner. Finally he/she graduates as an assessor of the practice - a master. Academically, a subject base is established in the process. The student examines the subject from the point of view of  practice, theory, and research. He/She therefore graduates also as an expert in a subject/discipline. These processes ensure that the graduate is academically sound and professionally efficient.

Maximilian is offering short-term English Language and Communication Skills courses for individuals who need such help to study courses in English language or establish themselves in a career. Interested individuals may email varsitycentres@aol.com for an application form.

[E] Nana Mansah Memorial Association
This Association is evolving from the potential within the Ghana extended-families and the diaspora nuclear-family circles of the children, grandchildren and great grand children of Nana Afua Mansah of Agona-Ashanti in Ghana (who died on 17 September 1999, at the age of 95).  We estimate that the families-linked, potential membership of the Nana Mansah Association is about 2000 strong, spread across the world. 

Before her death, she donated her property at Agona-Ashanti (built by both herself and her late husband) to serve as the residence and mission headquarters for the African Faith Tabernacle Church.  Nana Mansah was the daughter of the famous Nana Paul of Agona-Ashanti, a strong pillar of the Seventh Day Adventist mission in Agona district, and an important national figure in the Seventh Day Adventist Movement in Ghana.  In terms of Faith, her services to God span between a Western Sabbath-Holiness mission and a culturally-embedded African Christianity.  It is not therefore surprising that her seeds are spread out internationally in God’s world.


The vision for the Association has long been within the community-development spirit/aspiration in the ministry of Bishop Henry Kontor (a son of Nana Mansah and Kyeame Kojo Kontor).  That aspiration is providing a base for the dispersed families (potential members of the Nana Mansah Association) to find each other in a positive expression of belonging and community.  It is also providing a platform to identify and draw closer persons of some remote context or setting, who would sense that they are a part of the Nana Mansah families’ link.

The activities of the Association include an on-going enrolment of households and family links as well as a purposeful voluntary household support scheme – at both national and international levels.  The activities are disciplined under the principles of a families-linked community development practice.  A memorial library and a memorial vocational college will also be built. 

Initial co-ordination is being provided by Akosua Kyerewaah Kontor, currently in Ghana.  Contacts are. (Ghana) 0243080705;(UK) Tel:(+44)2089116377;email: icdsabcd@yahoo.com 

To God be all the Glory!

[A] Don Pascal Bandeira Moreira Memorial
[D] The Rev. George Memorial Class
The Life of
At the Heart of Development Education & Professional Practice
From the work of the Institute for Community and Development Studies, the Apostolic Congress of Great Britain has established some Memorials in honour of some key catalysts and leaders who have died.

From time to time, we run a programme as an event for one Memorial. Such a programme generally brings together faculty, partners and students, to exchange views relevant to our field engagements. On occasions, one Memorial may affirm some aspiring individuals with a recognition or an award. That can lead to a professional mentorship under an apprenticeship
or a tested methodology. It can also involve in an internship.

Ellen Kisiwaah
(Project Volunteer)
Student, Regent University
College of Science & Technology, Ghana.
Doing an Internship at Maximilian.
In this context, the Memorials will connect to Family Foundation Institutions including Family Foundation Colleges and their further development into Community Colleges.


   




We are living in a world that is urbanized
and yet under-developed.

We work in cultures that are both tribal and
multi-national. 

The markets are also impacting,
re-forming and transforming institutions,
including colleges, universities,centres of
practice, and historical systems.

We need minds and hearts as well as new
ideas and adequate framework,  to
consider how we prosper together and
lay foundations for further development.

Formerly, the cities lived in the
nations.  Now the nations live in the cities.

The world we live in is fast urbanizing. 
The population of each city is fast
becoming multi-national and global. 
To think local, is also to think international, multi-national and global.

A Growing Urban & International Landscape
Source:  United Nations Population Fund, 2007 Report.