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Employability at the top of the
agenda
Employment of Business School students
in
graduate
jobs
has
increased
significantly this year as we continue to
focus on work placement and internship
opportunities, as well as a skills
development in the ‘Employability
Conference’ on the 11 March 2014. We
are also seeing more engagement with
experiential learning through business
simulation. New for 2014 is the ‘Risk
Manager’ software which gives a real
flavour of the high pressure city dealing
room. These activities are becoming an
integral part of our programmes.
Director of School
Learning and Teaching
This year the Business School made a
significant investment in online resources
from
the
Chartered
Management
Institute and the BPP across business and
accounting programmes.
Our aim is to become an approved
Chartered Centre for the CMI. To this
end, we are currently finalising our 2nd
year degree modules, which will enable
students to gain CMI Certificates or
Diploma.
City Connections
Director of the Business School, Dr
Heather
McLaughlin,
was
recently
installed as Master of the Worshipful
Company of World Traders at a ceremony
at the Ironmongers’ Hall in the City of
London. Her principal guest at the
banquet was Alderman Alan Yarrow
(pictured below) who is Chairman of the
Chartered Institute of Securities and
Investments.
CCCU Business School has been working
with the Institute over the last two years
to offer an Investment Advice Diploma,
which is now embedded into the
undergraduate Accounting and Finance
degree programme. Alan is a key figure
in the financial services sector and is in
line to be the Lord Mayor of the City of
London in November.
Work Placements
We are pleased to announce that
Medway Community Healthcare, Keel
Toys, the Royal Automobile Club and
Bromley
Healthcare
have
already
guaranteed
to
provide
year-long
placements, which are currently being
advertised. The target is to secure a
minimum of 5 guaranteed placements for
students, of which 4 have already been
agreed.
There is now a section of the Business
School
website
for
employers,
www.canterbury.ac.uk/employerplaceme
nts. Although currently in its basic form,
the site will give a good idea to
employers of what we are looking for,
and provide them with a point of contact
with
the
Placements
Manager.
Book Launch
Dr. Ping Zheng
recently attended
an ISBE conference
for her new book
promotion:
Emerging Business
Ventures
under
Market Socialism:
Entrepreneurship
in China organised
by the Publisher
and ISBE.
A copy will be held in the library. This
book is a research monograph, which is
not only aimed at academics and
students for teaching and learning
purposes, but could also benefit
practitioners, such as entrepreneurs
intending to conduct business with
Chinese companies, or developing
trading and political relations with China,
and business consultants who are
specialised in organisational change and
strategic HR
Title: 'Emerging Business Ventures under
Market Socialism: Entrepreneurship in
China by Ping Zheng and Richard Scase
Date: 24th December 2013
Publisher: Routledge, Research Series:
Routledge Studies in International
Business and the World Economy
ISBN: 978-0-415-50131-6
For more details please visit:
http://www.taylorandfrancis.com/books/d
etails/9780415501316/
We are delighted to announce the
following new addition to The
Business School team:
Dominic
Manager.
Sullivan
Rg10,
–
Operations
Ext
3639
Dominic joins us from Registry where
he was the QL Training & Support
Officer and will take responsibility for
a
number
of
operational,
communication
and
marketing
activities within the School including;
line management of administrative
staff, reengineering administrative
systems; liaising with academic staff;
point of contact for marketing
materials and Business School social
media.
Fund Raising for the Royal
Marsden
The Business School has now raised just
over £1,000 from the sale of unwanted
text books, collections and donations for
the Royal Marsden Cancer Charity, for
which they are very grateful and most
appreciative!
IBM
Universities
Business
Challenge
For the fifth time in a row, students of
the Business School are competing in the
IBM Universities Business Challenge. A
record number of 21 teams have been
entered this year, including 3 teams from
our Broadstairs campus. The first part of
the competition, an online business
simulation, was played over a 5-week
period during October and November,
where each of our teams competed
against 7 teams from other universities.
As in previous years, our students rose to
the challenge and five of our teams are in
the regional semi-finals to be held late
February/early March 2014. Good luck to
our teams!
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February 2014 | Page 2 of 2
Forthcoming Events
Research Seminars 16:00 – 18:00 unless
otherwise stated
19 February 2014 – 09:30 – 16:30 –
BAF R&KE Group Conference
‘Managing a Future Pensions
Shortfall: The Role of Institutional
Governance’ All welcome to attend
26 February 2014 – Dr Dave Bamber
from Liverpool Hope University,
‘International Perspective of Business
Responsibility’
05 March 2014 – Dr Ying Fan
12 March 2014 – Dr Jane Lovell,
‘Hyperreal Events – Buildings in Motion
19 March 2014 – Charles Booth
from University of the West of
England,
‘Reaping of Commodity Out of the
Sorrow of the Living: Innovation and
Entrepreneurship in a Provincial
Victorian Cemetery
26 March 2014 – Dr Daniel
Santamaria, Evidence of Contagion
Effects between Global Credit
Market Risk and the Term Structure
of Interest Rates’
02 April 2014 – Dr Richard Baylis
from Cardiff Business School, ‘The
Determinants of Financial Reporting
Quality in Local Government: A UK
Perspective’
07 May 2014 – Dr Okey Okonkwo,
‘Talent Management in the UK HEI’s’
14 May 2014 – Dr Peter North from
the University of Liverpool
21 May 2014 – Dr Agnes Gulyas
04 June 2014 – Prof Bradley Barnes
from Sheffield University
Management School
Please contact Antonio Sama for more
details on 01227 782513 or
antonio.sama@canterbury.ac.uk
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Research and Knowledge
Exchange
Call for Papers - Seascapes:
Cultural Life of Seaside Towns
The
The COaST (Cultural Offers at Seaside
Towns) research group, based in the
Business School, will be holding their 2014
conference, Seascapes: The Cultural Life of
Seaside Towns at the Turner Contemporary
Gallery in Margate on 28th May 2014. We
aim to publish a selection of papers from
this conference, and are now inviting
proposals
for
contributions.
The conference will address the role and
value of the creative and cultural industries
at English coastal towns, considering the
ways
that
material
and
cultural
interventions contribute to patterns of
economic and social change. We consider
culture and creativity in the widest sense of
those words, including architecture and
design, live performance, the visual arts,
festivals, food and restaurants.
We invite research papers that address
these issues, and anticipate a multidisciplinary
conference
that
will
encompass a range of perspectives,
including business and economics,
sociology,
tourism
studies,
social
geography, cultural and media studies,
social history, and the history of design
and architecture.
For more details please download our
CFP here: http://bit.ly/1jb9Dpd Please
contact either Dr Andrew Jackson
(andrew.jackson@canterbury.ac.uk or Dr
Jane Lovell (jane.lovell@canterbury.ac.uk)
if you require further information.
KTP Awards
A partnership formed to drive innovation
in the charity sector has won a
prestigious
award
at
this
year's
Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTP)
Awards.
Lynn Morris, Undergraduate Programme
Director (HRM) at the Business School
said:
"We entered into the partnership with
KCFN (now incorporated in CXK Ltd) to
help facilitate the change from grant
dependency to a sustainable business
enterprise which generates revenue
through
commercial
activities.
The KTP was essentially about
‘productising’ core activities, supporting
the development of a commercial
training
centre
and
embedding effective business processes
to enable the organisation to move
forward in a strategic, coherent way”.
From left: Phil Smith (CEO, CISCO UK and
Ireland); Matthew Hancock MP, (Minister
of State for Skills and Enterprise);
Stephen Bell (KCFN); Chris Songhurst
(Associate/ KCFN); Lynn Morris, (CCCU
Business School); Iain Gray, (Chief
Executive, Technology Strategy Board).
Blake Hall College
The Business School is delivering a new
graduate MBA programme in London, in
partnership with Blake Hall College.
This started in November with the first
cohort of 20 students, and has already
completed one term. The second cohort
began on 4th February, with 24 students.
The
partnership
provides the School
with
a
great
opportunity to create
brand awareness and
international reach in
a competitive market.
Blake Hall College is an approved partner
of Canterbury Christ Church University as
the first independent HE Provider.
Brink Gardner, MD of Blake Hall College
said upon signing the Agreement with
Canterbury that “We, the Executive,
Faculty and Staff, are extremely proud of
this unique relationship and the
opportunities that come with it.”