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Cass Business School and Citi announce ground-breaking course

The course’s ten best performing students had the opportunity to take part in an assessment centre from which two students were selected for a six week summer internship with the ECM team at Citi.

The elective, which started in May, was led by Mario Levis, Professor of Finance at Cass and Senior Managing Directors from Citi’s Equity Capital Markets Origination team. It was the first time that Citi have partnered with a business school on a course elective of this kind.

Panmure House restoration gets the go ahead

The decision that a £3m restoration of Panmure House, the historic home of economist and philosopher Adam Smith, in Edinburgh’s Canongate, has been given the go ahead has been welcomed by the building's owner, Edinburgh Business School.

Vince Cable launches first university Regional Growth Fund project in the country

Dr Cable signed the letter confirming that Plymouth University and media partners the Western Morning News could begin the process of funding SME business development in the South West to the tune of £1m.

On a special visit to the University on Thursday, Dr Cable met a number of businesses already working with the institution through its operation of several innovation and incubation centres in Devon and Cornwall as part of the Growth Acceleration and Investment Network (GAIN).

Ousedale students win Arts Business Challenge at Cranfield

Cranfield has recently been ranked by the Financial Times as the top UK business school for customised executive development and first in the world for international delivery.
 
The trophy was presented to the winning team by Councillor Alan Richards, the Mayor of Milton Keynes.  The winners will be joined by the runners-up, from Denbigh School, in the Inter-County Challenge which takes place in the autumn when they will compete against winners of similar challenges from Bedfordshire schools. 
 

Lottery chief is new university chancellor

Dianne is a former student and lecturer at the university and is now chief executive officer of the Camelot Group of Companies.
 
Accepting the privilege to become the university’s third figurehead, she spoke of the power of higher education to transform lives, society and the economy.
 

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Business Plan 2011 competition winners announced

The competition is open to staff, students and the public. An independent judging panel chose Ben Allen, David Jazani and Tahamina Ajmal as the winners with their entry called ‘Forever!’ All three are University staff with the Department of Computer Science and Technology. They won a total prize fund of £2,500.

MBAs from Europe’s leading business schools come to Cranfield to compete in Europe’s longest running business plan competition

Now in its nineteenth year, The European Business Plan of the Year Competition is Europe’s longest running business plan competition.  It is designed to encourage entrepreneurship and new business creation among MBA students and to help them develop and apply venturing, commercial and business skills that are so vital in today's business world.

Become a Brand Leader

The event on May 9 is a chance to find out more about the MSc brand leadership, a unique collaboration between senior industry professionals and business experts at the university’s Norwich Business School. Launched in 2009, the one-year programme is led by Robert Jones, author of The Big Idea and head of new thinking at Wolff Olins, one of the world’ most influential brand consultancies. Other corporate partners include AMV.BBDO, Britain’s biggest advertising agency, and the publishers Faber and Faber.

Business School Students Help Market Local Businesses

Students from Newcastle University Business School have undertaken real-life marketing consultancy projects with businesses, charities and organisations across the region as part of the final stages of their Marketing and Management undergraduate degree.

Designed as a practical alternative to a standard dissertation, this project allows the Business School students to put into practice the lessons learnt throughout their time at University by providing free and practical advice on specific marketing briefs to local businesses.

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