Faculty of Business, Law and Sport The Faculty of Business, Law and Sport is a growing faculty at the University of Winchester. The Winchester Business School is based at the West Downs Centre and offers a dynamic and progressive portfolio of postgraduate courses. All programmes are designed to meet the demands of industry, allowing graduates to have the best chance of starting or enhancing their business careers. Our suite of Masters degrees offers specialisms in Accounting and Finance, Business Management, Human Resource Management, Managing Contemporary Global Issues, Marketing, and Project Management, and the programmes can be studied full-time or part-time. The Accounting and Finance, Human Resource Management, and Marketing degrees also can be studied as top-up programmes for students with professional qualifications in the relevant areas. In addition to these specialist programmes, we offer an MBA programme on a full-time basis at the Winchester Business School and on a weekend basis in Basingstoke. Our postgraduate programmes are characterised by innovative, studentcentred teaching and learning that develops the traditional intellectual skills of analysis, synthesis and evaluation. We focus on the development of students’ capacity to apply the necessary skills to solve real-life problems in a business/management environment. The Winchester Business School seeks to improve its links with industry and is committed to working with organisations and governments at regional, national
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and international levels. A key aim of our programmes is to produce postgraduates who possess the capacity for independent critical thinking and self-managed learning, functional skills and knowledge that can be drawn upon to cope with rapid change in the environment and which can promote vision, drive and creativity in both personal and professional development. Specifically, our courses are designed for students to engage with businesses where they can help solve real business problems and apply modern management theory in a practical context. The Business School is a member of the United Nation’s Principles of Responsible Management initiative. The concept of ‘responsible management’ is a theme that runs throughout the programmes. It incorporates the issues of value creation, ethics, environmental sustainability, corporate social responsibility, employee wellbeing and global impact within the overall context of accounting and business education. In addition to our suite of business and accounting programmes, we have MA Sustainable Business. The biggest impact on sustainable development will come from the corporate sector. Managers in the twentyfirst century will need to develop knowledge and understanding of sustainability and sustainable development in order to play an active and effective role in shaping future business practices and leading and managing change. The Department of Law was founded in 2008 and offers a Graduate Diploma in Law – a conversion course for graduates in other disciplines – commencing in September
Profile Dean of Faculty: Professor Neil Marriott Departments: Law Sports Studies Winchester Business School Department of Accounting, Finance and Economics Department of Management See pages 118-120 for more details about research in the Faculty of Business, Law and Sport
2011. The city of Winchester has played a central role in the English legal system for over 1,000 years and was significant in transmitting and preserving the law codes of Alfred and his successors, which were to have a major part in defining the common law of later medieval England. Today, the city has a thriving legal and business community with whom the Law Department has forged strong supportive links. The Department of Sports Studies has a well-established reputation for educating students in a variety of academic disciplines related to the study and delivery of sport. The Department continues to forge links with a range of local, regional and national sports organisations. The Department is planning to bring forward Masters programmes in the area of Sport – further information will be provided on the University website when available.
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