By Sarah Jane Knox on December 12, 2011
The competition has started and three of the six Business School teams that entered this year’s IBM Universities Business Challenge (UBC) have made it through to the next stage – the Regional Semi-Finals. What’s more, one of the teams to make it through to the next stage is the team of first-year BA (Hons) Accounting, Finance and Economics students, which is being sponsored by JPMorgan. The [...]
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By Sarah Jane Knox on December 8, 2011
Bournemouth University’s Business School is rewarding MBA applicants, that have an outstanding academic background, with MBA Scholarships of up to £15,000*. Six fully-funded scholarships, worth £15,000 each, available for UK/EU and International students Six part-funded scholarships, worth £7,500 each, available for International (non-EU) students All the scholarships are for full-time applicants only who have been offered a [...]
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By Sarah Jane Knox on December 5, 2011
Mark Ridolfo, the Business School Coordinator for the IBM Universities Business Challenge, has recently announce the names of the students who have been selected to represent the Business School and Bournemouth University in this year’s competition. This year’s students have a tough act to follow, as one of our Business School teams won last year’s competition! The IBM [...]
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By Sarah Jane Knox on December 5, 2011
Bournemouth University is heading for another win, for the 4th consecutive year, in the Association for Project Management (APM) University Project Challenge 2011-12. The APM theme this year is ‘My City’ and the Challenge was launched at a Sustainable Business networking event held at BU in October. Twelve teams of BA (Hons) Business Studies with Project Management students presented [...]
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By Sarah Jane Knox on December 2, 2011
Bournemouth University has become the first university to receive direct accreditation from the Intellectual Property Regulation Board (IPReg), the new statutory body regulating the professions of patent attorney and trade mark attorney. Under the previous regime, there were four universities accredited to provide exemptions from the foundation exams required by the Joint Education Board (JEB) [...]
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