University of the year Management School joins global elite THE MANAGEMENT SCHOOL HAS achieved awards from the three largest and most influential business school accreditation associations. The School joins the top one per cent of centres across the world – 57 globally and just 14 in the UK – to be recognised by the Association of MBAs, the European Quality Improvement System and the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. Professor Keith Glaister, Dean of the Management School, said, “We are privileged to join this prestigious international group. We strive to be a world-class centre delivering cuttingedge research and offering excellent learning and teaching. The accreditations recognise the progress we have made in recent years. We are now better placed to serve, and anticipate, the needs of the business community regionally, nationally and internationally.”
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THE UNIVERSITY WAS NAMED UK UNIVERSITY of the year in the 2011 Times Higher Education Awards. The Vice-Chancellor, Professor Keith Burnett, said, “The judges who visited us saw for themselves, I believe, something of the spirit of Sheffield. They did not watch formal presentations in imposing settings – instead we wanted them to see the real passion of our own staff and students to make a difference to the world around us. They said that the University ‘stood out as a result of a strategy based on its values and rooted in its founding principles’ and praised our ‘determination and grit’ in focusing on our local community.” The 2011 National Student Survey ranked Sheffield in the top ten of UK universities for student satisfaction. Overall, 90 per cent of our students surveyed were satisfied with their course, compared to a sector average of 88 per cent. Out of the University’s 55 subjects, 30 received an overall satisfaction score of 90 per cent or above. Business Studies, Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Biophysics and Biochemistry all received top overall satisfaction scores of 100 per cent. And Sheffield is the top university in Yorkshire as rated by the Sunday Times University Guide 2012, which described our University as “Yorkshire’s great success story this year.”
Festival of the Mind 20–30 September 2012
AN EXCITING, WEEK-LONG COLLABORATION between the city and the University, the Festival of the Mind will showcase Sheffield’s cultural strengths. It will bring together research and academic staff with colleagues from the creative industries, working in partnership to deliver a number of free events for all the family. These will include 50 Ideas for a Better Sheffield, Animal Magic, Philosophy in the City, Researchers Night, Sonnet Stroll, Fish for Science and HeliOscillator. To find out more, please visit the Festival’s website at www.sheffield.ac.uk/FOTM or join our Twitter feed #FOTM.
