Postgraduate

Now months of planning and hard work by the University of Derby's Centre for Enterprise Management (CEM) have paid off.

People who apply successfully to do an entrepreneurial placement will be entitled to funding support of up to ?6,000 each, helping to pay for equipment and other resources as well as advice and mentoring.

Lancaster University Management School has launched a new programme designed to deliver 'joined up' public services across Scotland. The new programme, jointly developed with the Scottish Leadership Foundation, is called Collaborative Leadership for Scotland and is aimed at senior managers and leaders in Scotland's public services.

With more than 1 in 8 undergraduate students in the UK taking Business, Management, Accountancy and Finance (BMA&F) courses, as well as the majority of taught postgraduates, the subjects covered by this Centre are clearly crucial to UK higher education.  BMA&F students also provide a very important source of overseas income to higher education institutions (HEIs) and the subjects are also important for the wider economy.  In most HEIs, the subjects are taught to very large cohorts of undergraduate students, which poses a particular challenge for effective learning and

Globally, there are estimated to be over 7000 business schools. Research by GMAC suggests the number of postgraduate business programmes grew by almost 4000 in the decade to 2007. In continental Europe there are over 1200 taught business Masters programmes in English. A search on Google for the words ‘business school’ produce tens of millions of responses.