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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…

Accelerating innovation and insights for the digital future

University of Brighton’s Business School is proud to be one of five UK universities chosen as the first of SAP’s Next-Gen Chapters in the EMEA region. We will be working closely with the SAP University Competence Center based in Technische Universität München to support other SAP University Alliances members in the UK to equip students…

Paige Hall receiving her Skillshub prize from Suzanna Baynard, Finance Manager at MTD

Microlearning Platform Offers a Student Prize to Brighton Business School

We are delighted to announce that microlearning platform, Skillshub will be offering a 12-month subscription to one of our students for the second year running for the 2018/19 academic year. Skillshub are microlearning experts that specialise in the delivery of short online learning sessions that allow you take immediate action. Their library of online resources…

Helping students achieve that ‘lightbulb’ moment: Rachael Carden

A former English teacher in both the UK and abroad, Rachael Carden is the Course Leader for our four-year International Business Management BSc(Hons). Rachael’s passion is supporting students in achieving that ‘lightbulb’ moment! On which programmes and modules do you teach? I am the Course Leader for the BSc International Business programme and I teach on…

Pictured of Dr Clifford Conway, Ana Christie Chief Executive, Sussex Chamber of Commerce and Lev Denker Trade Advisor for Dept of International Trade

Lecturer encourages Sussex business exports

Dr Clifford Conway on behalf of University of Brighton’s Business School attended the Sussex International Trade Forum (SITF) with some of his fellow committee members Ana Christie Chief Executive, Sussex Chamber of Commerce and Lev Denker, Trade Advisor for Dept of International Trade. The role of the SITF committee is to plan and run events…

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…

Bright ideas can net cash rewards

A new baby changing bag, a global penfriend scheme and turning plastic waste into new consumer products are just some of the ideas vying for cash prizes. The competition, managed by the University of Brighton’s Enterprise team, within the Careers Service, aims to reward innovation and turn good ideas into reality. The first three winners…

Guest talk today from co-founder and Chief Marketing Officer of SkinNinja

At 1pm today we are welcoming alumni, Charlotte Morris, who will be speaking to our students about how her degree set the foundations for her career. Charlotte graduated from the BA(Hons) Retail Marketing degree programme (Eastbourne Campus) in 2006 and over the last 12 years has held a number of senior marketing roles including Direct…

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Market entry exercise making easy work of buying Christmas presents

As part of their International Strategy module, members of the 2017/18 Brighton Business School MBA cohort were given just three hours to deliver a market entry strategy for Sugru and its amazing mouldable glue product… which is amongst Time Magazine’s 50 Best Inventions. The students analysed two potential geographical markets and considered a range of…

Graduate’s Money Business

The Mayor of Worthing Cllr Alex Harman cut the ribbon on a new foreign exchange shop launched by a University of Brighton graduate. Mohammad Golam Hossain, an international student, said the launch wouldn’t have been possible with support from the university: “I could not start a business in the UK without the university because of…