By Sarah Jane Knox on April 10, 2013
What do insurance and meerkats have in common? On the face of it – very little. For comparethemarket.com, the well-known insurance aggregator, the combination has proven to be extremely successful and has captured the public’s imagination. The campaign achieved its 12 months targets in just 9 weeks and Aleksandr, the main character, has his own [...]
Posted in News | Tagged Bournemouth University, Chartered Insurance Institute, Financial Services, Insurance, Meercats
By Sarah Jane Knox on February 6, 2013
The 2013 Business School Careers Fair took place today, Wednesday 6 February, in Kimmeridge House on Talbot Campus. The event was attended by all our key industry partners – companies who between them employ over 500 of our placement students and graduates. These include: Ascot Wealth Management ACCA Astute CIMA EDF Trading Enterprise Rent A [...]
Posted in Events | Tagged Bournemouth University, Business School, Careers, Employers, Placements
By Sarah Jane Knox on January 30, 2013
Yesterday we held the LV= BU Project Challenge Finals 2012-13. Thirteen teams of second year BA (Hons) Business Studies students presented the outcomes from their real projects. This year each team had a professional Project Manager as a mentor as well as an external client who benefited from the project. All thirteen projects delivered positive [...]
Posted in News | Tagged Bournemouth University, Business, Company, Students, Winners
By Sarah Jane Knox on January 28, 2013
Bournemouth and Poole Climate Week 2013 has been designed by a team of BU’s Business and Management students and will run between 4-10 March 2013. Our students held a breakfast event on Friday 25 January to officially launch the event. The aim of the event is to raise awareness of climate change and it’s a [...]
Posted in News | Tagged Bournemouth University, Business and Management, Event, Students
By Sarah Jane Knox on November 29, 2012
Danielle Foster, a fourth year LLB (Hons) Law student from Bournemouth University’s Business School, has been awarded the Hays Employability Prize for her poster presentation describing her placement year. Danielle has received £100 in House of Fraser vouchers from Hays recruitment agency, after they judged her poster to be the best of ten finalists from [...]
Posted in News | Tagged Accounting, Bournemouth University, Business School, Competition, Employability, Finance, Graduate, Law, Placement, Student, Winner
By Sarah Jane Knox on October 1, 2012
Congratulations to Matt Parsons, currently studying BA (Hons) Business Studies, who has won an Undergraduate of the Year award by the company he worked for whilst on his placement year. Matt received his award from company AgustaWestland, which manufactures and sells helicopters. He spent six months of his placement working in the company’s operations department – making [...]
Posted in News | Tagged Award, Bournemouth University, Business School, Business Studies, Placement
By swarren on August 21, 2012
A number of academics from the Business School took part in the training of lifesaving representatives from Senegal, Cameroon, Uganda, Bangladesh, India, Thailand, Mauritius and the Philippines this month. The intensive two-week course, organised by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI), was designed to equip the representatives with essential skills to run effective coastal lifesaving [...]
Posted in News | Tagged Bournemouth University, BU, Business School Bournemouth University, Lifesaving, RNLI, The Business School, Training
By swarren on July 10, 2012
Dr Christina Koutra, a Lecturer in Global Corporate Social Responsibility within the Business School’s Department of Strategy and Marketing, has recently had a book published by Nova Science Publishers. The book is entitled ‘More than Simply Social Responsibility: Implications of CSR for Tourism Development and Poverty Reduced in Less Developed Countries: A Political Economy Perspective’ [...]
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By swarren on June 23, 2012
Lord Neuberger kindly visited Bournemouth University on Friday 22 June and met with a small group of First and Second year Law students over lunch. The students and the Framework Leader for Law, Sue Warnock, were able to talk to Lord Neuberger about a number of issues currently in the press and in particular were [...]
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By Sarah Jane Knox on June 20, 2012
Autumn 2012 sees the launch of the part-time MSc Professional Development (Loss Adjusting) degree at Bournemouth University (BU), in collaboration with the Chartered Institute of Loss Adjusters (CILA). This is a valuable partnership providing individuals with the opportunity to build on their professional CILA qualifications and top-up to an academic qualification (Master’s degree). Dr Julie [...]
Posted in News | Tagged Bournemouth University, BU, Business School, CILA, Courses, Loss Adjusters, Partnership, Professional Qualifications
