Much has been written about recently about how in a downturn those that have been made redundant may wish to enter back into the job market to ride out the storm equipping themselves with a business and management degree or MBA to be at the top
;The topic is My Future Employability: The Benefits of a Business Degree and the deadline is April 1st. An Ipod Touch is the prize for the top two submissions.Click *here* for further information.
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Many MBA graduates do indeed work in Financial Services and of those graduating in the 1980s and 90s some will have been promoted to senior positions such as to assume responsibility for the actions of those firms which are now under the spot light
The event, at University of Bedfordshires Bedford campus, brings more than 80 universities and colleges from around the UK under one roof and gives young people the opportunity to find out about studying at degree level.Last year, more than 2,000 pu
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ESRC consultation doctoral training and quota awardResponse from ABS 06/02/09
The theme of the conference is 'Competing through Collaboration'.; This is intended as a broad theme which will encompass (but not necessarily be limited to) notions of collaboration with other institutions and stakeholders such as employers or spons
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Professor Andrew Pettigrew, a former
dean of the School of Management at the University of Bath receives an OBE for services to local
and national higher education. The academic completed his five-year
tenure as dean in September and is now w
Jonathan Slack, Chief Executive of the Association of Business Schools, comments on the results of the RAE 2008:"The results for the Business and Management Studies area are very impressive and give due recognition to the considerable efforts by
Professor Sue Cox (Dean, Lancaster University Management School)Professor Arthur Francis (Dean and Director, Bradford University School of Management)Professor Andrew Lock (Emeritus Dean, Leeds University Business School); andProfessor Robin Wensle
Jonathan Slack, Chief Executive of the ABS says:"As our Chair, Professor Michael Osbaldeston OBE, steps down from the role it is timely, and a pleasure to thank him on behalf of ABS for his enthusiasm and commitment over the last sixteen years
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;The panel met on 4 November and version 3 of the Guide will be available at the ABS Research Conference on 31 March 2009 at the School of Management, University of Surrey.
Please see below for links to the Executive Summaries for:
Generation Web
and
The Business of Branding
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Out of 117 ABS members there were 47 responses giving an overall response rate of 40%. The results have been anonymised.
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Now in its fifth year, The Business of Branding study has collected data from 45,000 respondents at 80 business schools in 20 countries.; In previous studies, the most important factor motivating full-time MBA students has been a desire to incre
Norman founded Straight Clean in January 2008 as a means to move away from being unemployed, to a job with the flexibility to also allow him look after his three children. Norman was chosen as the overall winner from six national finalists across
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Both Josh and Steph wrote highly focused articles on the topic My Future Employability: The Benefits of a Business Degree. ;Josh discussed the hard choices facing students when choosing a degree and concluded that: .... The graduate in busines
Dates:
Session 1 Overview for Marketers in a Business School Environment 22/23 October 2009
Session 2 - Marketing Plans Strategy and Implementation 17/18 December 2009
Session 3 Branding and Differentiation 18/19 Febru
Prof Howard Thomas, Chair of the Association of Business Schools, Vice-President of European Foundation for Management Development (Efmd) and President of AACSB says:
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There is hardly a day goes by without some major national or inte