From the Desk of the President of IAMPS
Greetings, it’s my pleasure to introduce and recommend the professional services of the Institute of Arts Management and Professional Studies (IAMPS) approved by the Federal Ministry of Education (FME), Abuja, Nigeria and Established under the Federal Republic of Nigeria CAM Act 1990, with No. RC1329612.
The essential difference between professional and academic credentials is that professional credentials are ‘warrants of competence’ or ‘warrant of expertise’ whereas academic credentials are certificate of knowledge. With professional designations, the certifying body is warranting that the certified worker (trades person or professional) has the essential knowledge and skills of a specified domain necessary for safe and appropriate practice of the trade or profession. With academic credentials, there is no such ‘warrant of competence,’ an academic credential means that someone has successfully completed a particular course of study but not the certification of competent to practice a trade or profession. Professional designations are ‘warrants of competence,’ it becomes important for certifying bodies to define specifically what certificates must be completed. Professional designations are always built upon a practice analysis, which defines what certified individuals need to know or be able to do. Academic credentials are rarely based upon formal and systematic practice analyses.
Institute of Arts Management and Professional Studies (IAMPS) is unique in its membership services as being an officially incorporated professional organization to provide assessment of competency to grant membership grades, it has also developed its curricula at different level that meet with the required demand of standards of the profession of Arts Management and Professional Studies. These courses are articulated or recognized by various Educational Institutions and Universities to confer appropriate conversion examination opportunities to holders of Professional Advanced Diploma Certificate (PADC), Professional Graduate Diploma Certificate (PGDC) as well as Associate and Full Membership upon successful completion of their training with us.
I welcome you to the Membership of IAMPS where both academic certification and professional training are available to suitably qualified and experienced candidates in the field of Arts Management and Professional Studies.
Best Wishes.
Prof. Barr. Amuda Kannike Abiodun (SAN), FCIAP
————Mission————
Striving to stimulate, develop and enrich the student’s critical, creative, imaginative and expressive skills to enhance their capacity to effectively and efficiently respond to academic and social challenges in our contemporary and competitive society.
————Vision————
Produce capable individuals as focused and entrepreneurial graduates with absolute professionalism and complete developmental knowledge through functional persistence cum determination.
———————Our Belief———————
Neither God, nor angels or just men command you to suffer for a single moment. Therefore it is your solemn and imperative duty to use every means moral, intellectual and physical that promises success.
—–Henry Highland Garnet (1843)
————Excellence————
The institute adopts a unique pattern of excellence service delivery of ordinary tasks with extraordinary flair.
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit”.
– Aristotle
————Integrity————
All IAMPS activities are conducted with maximum adherence to the principles of ethics and professional duties, reflected in transparent honesty and complete harmony which follows shared and well- established procedures.
———————Professionalism———————
IAMPS expertise receives adequate professional training and updating so as to guarantee at all times a high level of performance in line with core professional ethics which includes the maintenance and enhancement of their qualifications through functional persistence.
——————The Institute’s Objectives——————
The Institute’s objectives are to:
- Maintain and enhance the dignity, prestige and status of the profession.
- Uphold, regulate and control the integrity and professional conduct and to preserve the independence of Arts Management Professional.
- Promote the skill, efficiency, service and responsibility of the profession.
- Establish and maintain a high standard of education and knowledge.
- Represent the views of the profession and to promote the common interest of its members.
- Co-operate, liaise with or make representations to bodies or persons.
- Provide accredited training services, conduct qualifying examinations and/or assessment.
- Establish, promote and/or Administer Management Programmes, Training Workshop, Seminars, Symposium.
- To contribute to the development of new methodologies and technologies applied to internationalization of Arts Management and training in order to improve Academic values.
- To inject professionalism in the field of Arts management and Professional studies.
- To produce focused effective and efficient graduates.