Seychelles Institute of Management or "SIM" was started in 1978 by Guy Morel

Guy Morel

Guy Morel was a Seychellois accountant, economist and businessman. Morel was an influential figure in the Seychelles Government of the 1970s and 1980s when he was the Principal Secretary of Finance, the Governor of the Seychelles Central Bank and Chairman of Air Seychelles. He is also the founder...

 and Graham Jones (A British Chartered Accountant

Chartered Accountant

Chartered Accountants were the first accountants to form a professional body, initially established in Britain in 1854. The Edinburgh Society of Accountants , the Glasgow Institute of Accountants and Actuaries and the Aberdeen Society of Accountants were each granted a royal charter almost from...

 working for Guy at the time as part of British Aid).

Mr. Jones had been selected for a job in Seychelles

Seychelles

Seychelles , officially the Republic of Seychelles , is an island country spanning an archipelago of 115 islands in the Indian Ocean, some east of mainland Africa, northeast of the island of Madagascar....

 working for Mr. Morel. The original aim had been to train local Seselois (Seychellois) working for the finance ministry to become chartered accountants to sit and pass their exams in Seychelles.

The program had been working very well with more student

Student

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s than places. Mr. Morel and Mr. Jones came up with the idea over drinks about starting a more permanent school

School

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. Characteristicly of Mr. Morel (very much a do-er) once convinced he simply said lets do it.