University of Gloucestershire Make It

UNIVERSITY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE BUSINESS SCHOOL

MAKE IT YOUR CAREER COULD BE INTERNATIONAL, YOUR DEGREE SHOULD BE TOO

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All business degrees are not the same.

Your career could be international, your degree should be too

Been there, done that, got the t-shirt

Business is competitive.

An international experience is part of every full-time course at our business school and there’s no need to start feeding your piggy bank now because the costs are covered by your tuition fees.

You’ll of course be familiar with the notion of someone knowing what they’re talking about.

Lecturers of all subjects at our Business School can tell you an awful lot about the theory of business, they can also tell you about putting it into practice, because many of them have had careers working for some of the biggest names in the corporate world, nationally

Intensely, relentlessly and sometimes scarily so.

And because it is so competitive, so too is our Business School when we line-up against our competitors.

MAKE IT, precise details of which on later pages, is an integrated programme of study, vocational and insight experiences, which will enable you to do just that – make it in your chosen career; be that in Accounting, Marketing or another field of business.

We want your three years with us to be fascinating, stimulating, absorbing, thrilling and fun. But when you graduate you’ll be hunting for a great job, alongside graduates of other universities.

To enable you to get that job it’s our job to get you ‘career-ready’ and really stand out from other graduates in the eyes of employers.

Not just by having a good degree, but by being a graduate that exudes confidence and responsiveness, and is able to clearly demonstrate an understanding of real-world business, over and above purely an academic one.

We’re not going to shrink from letting you know you’re really going to need your wits about you on the road ahead, but we’ll prepare you for a thrilling journey.

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Depending on what you study you’ll be spending time overseas somewhere at the epicentre of the industry you’re looking to work in.

Dreams are wonderful, but here’s the thing – they can actually come true and graduates from the University of Gloucestershire’s Business School are living proof.

On later pages you’ll get to hear from two former students now living and working in New York, and another who’s literally flying high in the Marketing Department of British Airways.

They worked hard to get where they are, they have some great advice and if they can do it, you can too.

and internationally. And their knowledge is complemented by visiting lecturers and guest speakers who are at the very top of their respective fields.

Leaders, visionaries and entrepreneurs who you’ll be working with on real-world assignments and projects, listening to and learning from their razor-sharp thinking and insights.

A place where students and business meet

The flagship £16m building will be the new home for the University’s Business School, and will expand the Growth Hub which is already based at our Oxstalls campus in Gloucester.

Collaborate with colleagues in spaces specially designed for small groups or informal gatherings. Attend a lecture in a 100-seat collaborative lecture theatre which offers flexibility for a range of learning experiences.

Participate in real-life business scenarios in our trading room and clinic facilities. Then step out of the classroom and into a meeting with business leaders at the Growth Hub. The Growth Hub will become an inspiring focal point of activity providing you opportunities to work alongside leading businesses in Gloucestershire and beyond.

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Your Future Plan

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Your Future Plan

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A career in business

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An interview with David Sargeant

An interview with Caroline Reeve

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An interview with Ollie Carrier

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Your Future Plan. Will start with being allocated your own personal tutor, who’ll sit down with you from the outset to devise a strategy that will chart your path through university for the next three years. He or she will be with you throughout those three years, supporting you every step of the way, identifying opportunities, offering help and guidance to become the best graduate you can be, to fulfil your learning experience and achieve your ambitions.

Your Future Trip. You will go on an international trip that will give you a global perspective on the industry you’re looking to enter, a very real understanding and insight of your place within it.

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Let’s plan a great future together

In the same way that a new enterprise has a business plan to plot the way to its success, we believe the same should apply to all of our students, which is why we’ve devised Your Future Plan.

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Summary of courses

Your Future Brands. You will work alongside real companies on live briefs and problems, we have the connections with household names to make this happen.

types, you might even become a club president or secretary, which will look great on your CV! Your Future Volunteering.

It feels good to help out and give something back, it also helps you to become a more rounded person with life experiences and it looks good on a CV. We’re connected to lots of volunteering organisations and have over 10,000 hours of volunteering opportunities.

Your Future Placements.

We’re connected to local companies, national companies and international ones. Over 3,000 of our students complete a work placement or internship as part of their degree.

It can be where your career actually gets underway, as students often forge important connections through placements, some even get offered jobs on graduation.

Your Future Presentations.

Making persuasive and compelling presentations to demanding audiences that take some convincing is an essential business skill. We’ll help you develop the skills and techniques you’ll need to conquer nerves and win people over with your ideas.

Your Future Clubs. We all need to switch off, kickback and meet new people. The university has lots of sports, social clubs and societies of all

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Not necessarily.

For many business titans, success came after failure and sometimes where they started out in life was very different to where their destinies eventually lay.

It won’t come as a blinding revelation to realise that we’re all different. Sure, some of us grow up knowing that we will end up as a doctor, a nuclear physicist, a politician, a dog surfing instructor or a professional cuddler (yep, those last two are actual jobs)!

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But some of us are not blessed with such vocational clarity, we just have a vague idea of ‘I’m quite interested in this or that, but I’d like to know more’.

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This can be the case with the world of business. Our graduates are usually headed in one of four directions: a career in a blue chip corporate, becoming an entrepreneur, working as part of an SME or becoming an external consultant.

Who do you admire in business?

Richard Branson?

James Dyson?

Or how about one of those terrifying Dragons’ Den dwellers like Peter Jones or Deborah Meaden?

Determined, focused and driven people, no doubt planning world domination from birth, right?

on is right for you. But one thing we do know about business is it’s a domain that has changed. It’s not all pin-stripes, PowerPoint and spreadsheets.

It used to be the preserve of cuff-linked, suited and booted men and women, and a quite intimidating place, seemingly out of reach for many.

But not anymore. Whilst certain careers still require a sartorial code, it’s now a far more inclusive and welcoming arena, where radical ideas, fertile thinking and doing things differently are vital. And today’s business students are tomorrow’s providers of all of that, and more.

We hope we can look forward to helping shape you into one of those people.

These are not all mutually exclusive and it’s not unusual to experience all four during a career. Point is we’re not expecting you to declare you want to become a this or a that.

And if you think you have made your mind up, your experiences on your course may get you to change it, which isn’t a problem.

As well as getting you prepared to eventually commence your career, our courses are also about discovery; of the world of business itself and of yourself.

Your opinions, thoughts and ideas will be shaped by your experiences; from your lecturers, visiting lecturers and speakers, the personal tutor at the university, those you meet on placements and your fellow students.

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The unique array of skills you’ll experience on the MAKE IT programme will give you the confidence, the knowledge and a depth to your degree to make you a very attractive candidate to employers.

Lots of opportunities to work with industry leaders and entrepreneurs on real-world projects and assignments, getting to know just how they wrestle with business issues, observing them at work first hand. You’ll also gain invaluable insights about starting your own business, which is the ultimate aim for many Business School students.

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it says; helping you to make it in your chosen career. With a unique programme of vocational experiences, alongside your academic studies, you will gain insider knowledge and skills, which will turn you into an outstanding graduate, and stand-out employment candidate.

Included in your tuition fees, depending on what you are studying, you will travel to Hong Kong, New York, Milan or Ho Chi Minh City to witness, practice and experience your subject in a global setting.

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An interview with David Sargeant

Graduate, Decision Support Analyst, SThree Plc. From Richmond, London

University of Gloucestershire: So, David Sargeant, one-time Business School undergraduate at University of Gloucestershire, please tell us your job title today?

David Sargeant: I’m a Finance Business

Partner for the Americas Region of S3 PLC.

UOG: Wow! And a few things about what your job entails?

DS: Lots of stress testing, forecasting,

performance reviews and sitting on the board to report my findings.

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ultimately want to achieve. Set a goal early, and work back from it. Don’t assume that by going through the motions you will achieve that goal, because you won’t. You can definitely get what you want out of life, but unless you put in the yards it won’t happen. That’s another thing I learnt during those three years at University of Gloucestershire.

UOG: Anything else you’d like to say about the university?

DS: 6th Avenue, slap bang in the middle

DS: Yes, they prepare you so that when

UOG: And it all began in Cheltenham, right?

you come out of university you already have a foot on where you want your career to take you.

DS: Yes, at the University of

UOG: And New York as a place to live and work?

Gloucestershire. It’s an amazing place to study, an amazing place to live, amazing people – in all an amazing three years!

UOG: Aside from the academic knowledge to get your First Class Degree, what else did you learn at University of Gloucestershire?

DS: It’s an electric city, incredible. I’m very

lucky to have been able to move here. I did my university placement at S3 PLC, and when they asked ‘Would you be interested in a job in New York City when you graduate?’ I said ‘Yes!’ and very quickly!

DS: I learnt on a lot of levels, as you say,

not just academic. I learnt how to motivate myself, how to be more confident and outgoing. I met great people, made great friends from many different backgrounds and other courses, and I’m still friends with pretty much all of those people now.

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DS: Be really clear about what you

UOG: And where’s your office?

of Manhattan!

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UOG: Who knows, one day you might go back to the University to talk to Business School students, what would your advice be?

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An interview with Caroline Reeve

University of Gloucestershire: Caroline, all Business School students want to be high-flyers, you literally are! Can you tell us about your job with British Airways?

Graduate, Campaign Project Manager, British Airways.

From Oxfordshire

Caroline Reeve: I’ve been with BA for over three years now, and in that time I’ve held three posts. I’m currently a Marketing Innovation and Capability Executive, before that I was Marketing Exploitation Lead, and after I graduated from University of Gloucestershire Business School I joined the airline as a Campaign Project Manager.

UOG: Could you tell us some of the detail as to what your job involves, and some other responsibilities?

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Learn’ team on the BA ‘Know Me’ programme. This is all about powering a personalised customer experience right across the airline. I managed the CRM communications to improve and deliver Personal Recognition, Targeting Selling and Service Recovery.

UOG: Can you tell us about your time as Campaign Manager, that must have been fascinating seeing campaigns developed, researched and finally appear?

on email, digital and social channels for precisely targeted sales campaigns. I worked closely and had strong relationships with data strategists and analysts to formulate test plans, ensuring continuous campaign improvement of engagement and ROI. I also provided consultancy to my colleagues to become early adopters of CRM and personalisation of campaigns, and I mentored an Industrial Placement student during his year at BA within the ‘Know Me’ lab team.

UOG: Impressive stuff. Can we go back to where it all began at University of Gloucestershire Business School and how your degree studies helped get you where you are today?

CR: It was a ‘hands-on’ degree, working with real clients. The lecturers also came from industry backgrounds, and they wove their industry experience into teaching, which made it really interesting.

UOG: Aside from academic learnings, what other skills did you develop at the university?

CR: Confidence. I learnt how to stand up in front of people and give assured presentations, I now have to do this a lot in my job.

“I did my placement year at BA and I got, and still do, get a real buzz from seeing campaigns reach out across global markets in my job”

CR: It was. I did my placement year at BA and I got, and still do, get a real buzz from seeing campaigns reach out across global markets in my job.

UOG: What else did you enjoy about that role?

CR: Working with creative agencies every day; from the initial briefing, through to campaign delivery. All campaigns were shaped and influenced by customer insight and data across multi-channel environments. Much of my work was in the digital area, with predominant focus

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An interview with Abi Newson

Graduate, HR Business Development Consultant IBM From Worcester

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University of Gloucestershire: How fully formed was your thinking about a career before university, and how did University of Gloucestershire help you progress in the direction you ultimately took, specifically an international career?

Abbie Newson: Before university I had no idea what I wanted to do as a career, I went to university to study business as that was my best subject at A level. At uni I discovered Human Resources as my course offered a HR pathway, so I thought I would try it - I did and loved it. It was also at the University of Gloucestershire that I discovered IBM and the opportunities available to join the international organisation through a presentation from students at the uni who were on internships at IBM. UOG: What really clinched your decision to study at the University of Gloucestershire?

AN: The decision to study at the University of Gloucestershire was the opportunity to undertake a year internship as part of the course.

In addition, the small campuses really appealed to me as I wanted a community feeling - which is exactly what I got.

UOG: You went through an exhaustive selection process to get your job, how did the University of Gloucestershire help in preparing you for that?

AN: The best thing my course prepared me for was presentations. Before university I was extremely nervous talking in front of people and would have never presented in front of anyone. My university course got us presenting in the first couple of weeks and then it continued throughout.

This then prepared me for the selection process at IBM, gave me more confidence and gave me the ability to do well on

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my internship - I presented in the IBM headquarters boardroom in New York!

Presentations are a large part of my current role in IBM so I am still benefiting from what I learnt at university.

UOG: You mention in your video talking to people with 25 years’ experience in your industry, clearly you can do that, and how did your degree help you there?

AN: My degree helped me gain a graduate role on the IBM HR Leadership Development Programme, which gives me exposure to senior HR executives in IBM. Without my degree, the knowledge and skills learnt at university, I would not have gained a place on IBM’s internship and that is the only route onto the globally recognised leadership programme as a UK graduate.

UOG: What are your favourite things about living in New York – food, districts, new friends, culture, entertainment, sports – or anything else?

AN: I haven’t lived in NY yet, but I have worked there a few times and the best thing is meeting colleagues in person that you have worked with over the phone and emails. It is an exciting place and everyone is very friendly and enthusiastic - the food is also excellent!

UOG: Business is very serious and you are clearly very at home in it, but are there times when you pinch yourself at what you’ve achieved?

AN: It’s very easy to forget what I have achieved when I’m at work at IBM as everyone around me is very impressive and have brilliant stories. However, when I speak to friends and family I realise just how well I have done so soon after graduating. The opportunities I have had, and still have ahead of me are just amazing.

UOG: As a student you sat and listened to interns, now you’ll be the one who students listen to – what would you tell them?

AN: Work hard but have fun - in uni and in work! The most important thing to remember, although you are just starting out in your career, you still have a lot of value to add. Find your skillset and make the most of it - make your mark on everything you do.

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An interview with Ollie Carrier

Graduate, Commercial Manager Virgin Media From Berkshire

University of Gloucestershire: You’re a very different person to the one on your first day at University of Gloucestershire – if you could meet that person again, what would your advice be?

Theory and real world examples should be studied in even balance to ensure you aren’t graduating with all the knowledge available, but not the ability to apply it correctly.

the university brand is delivered through the students it graduates, it’s clear that the University of Gloucestershire is making big strides to shout about this.

Ollie Carrier: Relax, make the right decisions

UOG: How closely do your studies mirror the world of work you’re in today?

UOG: What do you enjoy most about your work and why?

OC: The work I did on my third year around churn and the telecommunication industry was very close to my work during my time at Vodafone. It was key to getting the role.

Now I’m at Virgin Media, I’m starting to pull on slightly different elements of what we studied. Being able to pull from key academic theories, such as Porters Five Forces within power of suppliers, helps you contextualise the environment in which you are working.

OC: The telecom industry is entering a fascinating time where so much is unknown.

The UK market is unbelievably competitive, with brands competing over customers expecting more for less. Communications are also notoriously challenging to deliver product/service seamlessly, as the technology never runs without fault. I enjoy being exposed to new areas of the business and projects as it helps me build a bank of experience early on in my career. I hope that in doing this I can bring real value and knowledge later on in my career, with hopefully great salary packets.

and you’ll do just fine. Make the most of the free time you have as life will never be so good. Play more sport, get outside, sleep in late. There’s plenty of time to stress, get up at 6am & work late after you graduate.

Surround yourself with people who’ll help you develop and not distract you away from what you want to achieve.

UOG: What did you get from your course and what really clinched your decision to study at the University of Gloucestershire?

OC: The placement year and the experience

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I gained was the most valuable thing I took away from University. Having a great brand on my CV, the real life experience I was able to bring into my final year work is why I’m doing what I am today.

UOG: How did your time at university engender the confidence you now have?

OC: Leaving with a First gave me the confidence I could achieve whatever I put my mind to. Find what you like, and give it enough effort and time, you will achieve your goals. University offers you the chance to experience loads of different things, academic and everything else. Go and learn what interests you most.

UOG: How was working with real clients and external people, as opposed to hypothetical cases?

OC: Applying theory to real world examples is hugely valuable. Recognising a situation and consider it using frameworks you have been taught, you are then in a much better position to make the right decisions and recommendations within your assignments.

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UOG: You now know a lot about brands, with your knowledge of them, aside from Virgin Media what do you consider to be a great brand and, in a sentence, why?

OC: First is having clear differentiation within the market with clear communication of your competitive advantage. Second is to consistently hammer that message home.

Coca Cola delivers on both. Who doesn’t love a cold coke on a hot summer’s day, there is something thirst quenching-ly satisfying about it, even though you know its eroding away your teeth! They play on this concept consistently and drive a real ‘feel good’ touch to adverts. A consistent approach over decades, no surprise that they consistently perform well in brand value trackers.

UOG: How would you sum up the University of Gloucestershire brand?

OC: It’s difficult for a University to deliver on my two principles above as it has to attract a huge variety of students, ranging from finance business students, to art and more creative ones. In the business faculty the placement scheme seems to be a point of differentiation, so the brand should reflect this. Ultimately

UOG:What are your favourite things about working in London – food, districts, new friends, culture, entertainment, sports – or anything else?

OC: I enjoy it immensely. You get a feel good factor when you commute in as the buzz is really noticeable. Much better than being based in the middle of some industrial park.

But days are much longer when you add in drinks after work, and then the commute home, which when you like to play sport and stay active can be a bit challenging.

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New York. Is there any other city in the world that the mere mention of its name sets pulses racing? Instantly a thousand images are formed in the mind’s eye: Empire State Building, Chrysler Building, Statue of Liberty, Central Park and Wall Street.

We could go on, but you don’t have to even have been there to conjure up such iconic imagery, as this buzzing, thrilling city has been the backdrop for a thousand feature films and TV shows seen across the globe.

The city that never sleeps, so good they named it twice, aside from being a tourist

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magnet, New York is a metropolis where serious business gets done.

Gordon Gekko may be a pantomime villain-esque fictitious character, but there’s nothing fictitious about the lower Manhattan world he inhabited on Wall Street.

Here and at the NASDAQ on 165 Broadway, millions of dollars are traded literally every second on the world’s largest and second largest stock exchanges.

Ambitions run higher that the mind-boggling, neck-craning skyscrapers, 46.5 million square metres of which are office space (those figures were from 2015, doubtless it’s now even higher).

(or any number of incredible restaurants on Manhattan Island), and the chances are that the immaculately attired chap in the corner, taking a quick glance at his Patek Phillipe watch, is one of the many hedge fund managers living and working here.

Or perhaps he’s a top executive of an investment bank, celebrating a multimillion (maybe billion) dollar merger or acquisition.

Actually, maybe all of that can wait a few years and for now a delicious burger at Scotty’s Diner on Lexington Avenue for a few bucks will satisfy your appetite.

NYC A pulsating melting pot of nationalities, cultures and people. Yes, it’s over-populated, yes it’s overcrowded, but that’s half the fun!

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HONG KONG

If you have several hundred dollars to spare, dine at Per Se restaurant in the Time Warner Centre on Columbus Circle

As a student at the Business School, you could be headed across the pond on a placement with a business in this astonishing, thrilling city.

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Not that many years ago ‘Made in Hong Kong’ was a ubiquitous label on everything from say, underpants, to virtually anything made of plastic to, well pretty much anything else.

It was also a disparaging observation about something that was cheap and nasty. In those days Hong Kong was a British colony, it is now an autonomous territory of China, the British having negotiated a 99-year lease with the Chinese in 1898, which expired in 1997 and Hong Kong reverted to Chinese ownership. Hong Kong translates as ‘Fragrant Harbour’. Its harbour may not be particularly fragrant but it is certainly deep and has made Hong Kong an important trading post for global shipping of imports and exports.

Hong Kong has long moved on from being just a centre of manufacturing. In recent decades it has emerged and grown to become a global financial powerhouse.

It is without doubt a bustling, fascinating region, always busy but coming alive especially at night, surrounded by a sea of garishly coloured, but dazzling neon signs written in Chinese.

Hong Kong is actually an archipelago of islands, the main one being Hong Kong island, and the rest of the territory, Kowloon and the New Territories, are reached more often than not by a short journey from the island’s Victoria Harbour on the iconic Kowloon Star Ferry.

Hong Kong is also a place of contrasts, with so many inexpensive but delicious street food stalls, vying for space alongside some of the most amazing and sophisticated restaurants anywhere in the world. And in spite of its modernity and being a centre of cuttingedge technology, ancient and traditional fishing villages still exist on outlying islands.

HKG A memorable trip on the Star Ferry, particularly at night, affords a view of perhaps one of the most spectacular urban vistas in the world; the ‘concrete forest’, serried ranks of skyscrapers in close proximity to each other on what, at only 2,754 square kilometres, makes for a very densely populated place.

Ancient, modern, traditional, contemporary – without doubt a fascinating, enthralling place, Hong Kong is one of the cities you could be spending time in as a student of our Business School.

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Being home to just one ubercool fashion brand would be impressive, but Giorgio Armani, Dolce & Gabbana, Prada, Gianni Versace, Valentino and Prada – isn’t Milan being a bit greedy!

Whilst Rome is Italy’s political brain, Milan is undoubtedly its financial and business heart.

45% of Milanese businesses are in the Lombardy region and 8% of all Italian businesses, including three in the Fortune 500, are located in this beautiful, northern, Italian city.

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Bugatti, Pirelli and Italy’s biggest telecom company, Telecom Italia.

there are one or two other attractions in Milan to while away plentiful hours.

But enough of the namedropping, Milan is the vibrant city in which many businesses thrive; in health & biotechnologies, chemicals & engineering and a huge banking & finance sector, with three of Italy’s biggest banks headquartered in Milan, and over forty foreign banks with major offices there too.

Also situated in Milan is the Associazione Bancaria Italia, which is the nerve centre of the Italian banking system, and the Italian Stock Exchange, with its listing of 225 companies.

We’re being ironic, there are almost too many to list, but here are a few. There’s the historic and architecturally magnificent Piazza Duomo, where you’ll find the breathtaking Galleria Vittorio Emanuel II and the incredible Milan Cathedral.

The iconic La Scala Opera House, many stunning and historic parks and gardens, innumerable shops, and a plethora of the coolest pavement cafes to sip a latte, a Peroni or a glass of Frascati, and so many superb restaurants serving up legendary Italian cuisine.

MXP And Milan’s industry isn’t merely restricted to fashion brands. The working population amongst its 1.3 million inhabitants are employed across many industrial sectors. Other world-renowned brands emanating from Milan are

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Milan is a magnet for artists, designers, models and photographers, and with such a lustrous brand heritage, marketers and marketing students too.

But once you’ve managed to tear yourself away from a welter of work and study,

There are few places in the world cooler than Milan to immerse yourself in flourishing businesses with global reach, and it’s a city you could be spending time as a student of our Business School.

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Vietnam’s recent past is a cruel one. From 1959 to 1975 the country was at war with the USA. A savage conflict that cost many lives.

But that was the past, for Vietnam the present and the future have never looked more optimistic, which brings us on to Ho Chi Minh City, the country’s vibrant commercial, cultural and economic centre.

Previously known as Saigon (and still called so by the locals) the city was re-named in 1976. This enthralling conurbation, which sits on the banks of the Saigon River, has transformed itself from a war-torn wasteland to a booming, exciting metropolis, on a par with other flourishing far eastern regions such as Bangkok and Singapore, and is the equal of the many thriving economies in south east Asia.

Economic prosperity is evident all across this now burgeoning city; apartments and shiny new office blocks sit beside the more traditional pagodas and harsh communist architecture, a legacy of the country’s former rule.

The streets, once crammed with bicycles and echoing to the whine of small motorcycles and mopeds, are now full of gleaming SUVs. The motorcycles do remain, though some you can barely see beneath the menagerie of animals being carried on them!

Ho Chi Minh City accounts for 20% of Vietnam’s GDP and over 25% of the country’s industrial production.

What used to be an austere and alien place is a wonderful example of a phoenix arisen from the ashes. Great bars and restaurants, modern comfortable hotels, an abundance of western visitors, some living in the city, intermingling with the smiling, friendly locals.

Ho Chi Minh City today is a modern, lively location, at the forefront of technology and in the midst of a seemingly never-ending economic boom.

A great place to visit and experience its effervescent industrious economy, which as a Business School student you could be doing.

HCM And there was a time when the children of this city were once heart-rending malnourished waifs.

Today they are a picture of health, dressed in designer labels and, just like us in the west, obsessed with scrolling their smartphones.

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Position Lecturer in International Business Management / International Business Studies

1. Your teaching in three words Interesting, interactive, informative.

2. A sentence to describe the Business School The Business School is a vibrant community where potentials can be discovered, capability can be fulfilled, and ‘dreams’ can be achieved.

3. A former student you’re proud of and their career today

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Monica Marin. She completed our BA International Business Management course in July 2015 with first class honours, and secured a graduate job with IBM in her final year, where she works as a Storage Sales Specialist of Systems Hardware.

4. Someone in business you admire

5. University today compared to University in your day

9. Someone who inspired you, and why?

University today provides a lot more opportunities to students regarding employability, and it is a lot more student-focused in terms of its services.

Dr Martin Luther King Jr. for what he did for the civil rights movement and his influence on diversity and equality issues around the world.

. Today’s Business School 6 students are tomorrow’s…

10.Your favourite sports team/ movie/ book

Today’s Business School students are tomorrow’s candidates for the business challenges of the ever-changing global business environment.

Olympic Team GB / Alien / Cycling in Wales

7. One word. The most important thing about business is...

Profitability 8. What would you pitch on Dragons’ Den? Easter Dragon eggs

Gabrielle Bonheur “Coco” Chanel

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The Business School is a vibrant community where potentials can be discovered, capability can be fulfilled, and ‘dreams’ can be achieved.

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Name Dr Jun Zhang From Shanghai, China

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Name Charles Afryie From Takyiman, Brong - Ahafo, Ghana

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Engaging, relevant, inclusive!

2. A sentence to describe the Business School The Business School is a thriving environment providing students with an exciting choice of experiences to help underpin your future.

3. A former student you’re proud of and their career today Abi Newson......IBM.....fab alumni.... she contributes to recruitment and all things Business School

5. University today compared to University in your day

10.Your favourite sports team/ movie/ book

International, Interactive.......engaging!

Toronto Maple Leafs, Sound of Music, Germinal

. Today’s Business School 6 students are tomorrow’s…

Innovators......

7. One word. The most important thing about business is...

Relevence 8. What would you pitch on Dragons’ Den?

4. Someone in business you admire

An electronic pooper scooper

Jeff Bezos

9. Someone who inspired you, and why?

My Dad......he worked hard......but also introduced work life balance into his ethos before it was hip!

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Position Senior Lecturer in Accounting and Finance

1. Your teaching in three words Engaging, informative and reflective 2. A sentence to describe the Business School

of support services enhancing the student’s experience . Today’s Business School 6 students are tomorrow’s…

Innovators and educators

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A place to know, test and practice decision making skills for areas of business management that are of interest to you.

3. A former student you’re proud of and their career today Natalie Jones; Tax Specialist at HMRC 4. Someone in business you admire Warren Buffett 5. University today compared to University in your day University today is a lot more business and practice focused with a range

7. One word. The most important thing about business is...

Information 8. What would you pitch on Dragons’ Den? A web-based resource and app on personal financial planning 9. Someone who inspired you, and why?

Growing up, I was inspired by the intellectual achievements of Dr James Kwegyir Aggrey and continuously convinced myself that I can always improve on my knowledge, skills and

usefulness to society. From a very humble background, he obtained a broad education (studied chemistry, physics, logic, economics, politics, psychology and sociology), achieved multiple doctoral awards, was multilingual (spoke at least English, French, German and Latin) and impacted on the lives many people.

His philosophy of education is best described in his famous saying….”I don’t care what you know; show me what you can do”.

10.Your favourite sports team/ movie/ book Blackburn Rovers.

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Our Business School:

Summary of courses

For over 30 years the University of Gloucestershire has been teaching business degrees, earning a reputation as one of the leading specialists in the area in the UK. Constantly innovating and improving our courses, we have forged strong links with professional bodies and industries on a local, national and international level.

Our courses are firmly aligned to vocational studies, as well academic.

Our combination of excellent placement opportunities, highly experienced lecturers with impressive backgrounds in industry as well as academia, regular speakers and guest lecturers from successful and high-profile businesses, prepares graduates to become ‘career-ready’ to take their place in the starting blocks of a very successful career.

95% of

graduates in employment or further study within 6 months (DLHE 2014/15)

Provides programmes accredited by professional bodies from ACCCA to CIM

Not only do all our undergraduate degrees have internationally focused modules, we also provide several courses, through partners, around the world.

In 2016 research topics covered practices in Europe, North America, the Middle East and Far East

One of the largest DBA providers in Europe

Source: DBAstudies.com

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