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Student entrepreneurs launch online marketplace

Three University of Brighton students have created and launched the Uniimarket app – a buy and sell platform for peers at the institution. Co-founders Ben Brooks and Anmol Mangat are both graduating this year studying BSc(Hons) Business Management, with Brighton Law LLB(Hons) graduate Ehab Ahmad, acting as a shareholder. Originally formed as part of module…

Brighton Business School students dominate Santander Ideas Competition

A new online platform that helps researchers to plan, conduct and analyse research has scooped a £1,500 prize. The Santander University of Brighton Ideas Competition was won by Robert Otim, a recent Product Design graduate. Robert’s idea ‘Pipette’ was developed while working in the data and analytics industry. In second place was our very own Brighton Business School student, Mathew Dixon…

Student’s business bonanza

Many students find jobs to help finance their university courses but one student’s enterprise has earned a little more than most – £60,000 in one month to be precise. Naglis Stankaitis, in his final year of his BSc(Hons) Business Management course at the University of Brighton, has discovered a business payload after years of trial…

winning students pictured outside no. 10 Downing Street

Winning Business School students show Downing Street how we can use wasted food

Finalists in a University of Brighton ‘bright ideas’ contest visited 10 Downing Street to discuss student entrepreneurship. One explained his idea of turning the seven million tonnes of food thrown away each year into nutritious juices. The students met Government business advisor Jimmy McLoughlin on the invitation of Enterprise Nation, the business support tool available…