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Annual International Study Visit to Strasbourg

Ghaith Arabi Durkawi is a full-time MBA student from Syria, he talked to us about a recent International Study visit to Strasbourg that our MBA and Management MSc students took as part of their course. “My study trip to Strasbourg was an experience that will accompany me for a long time. We attended a preparation course…

Innovation Management Training for Red Cross Innovation Pioneers

CENTRIM – the Centre for Research in Innovation Management – has been asked by the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent to help with the training of their Innovation pioneers in the concepts and practice of innovation management. To that end, Professor Howard Rush flew to Madrid to work with twenty-five of…

Involvement with professional bodies

Our Logistics and Supply Chain Management MSc is accredited by the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transportation (CILT) and the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply (CIPS). These accreditations give students membership. exemptions from examinations from these institutes and access to their online resources, networking opportunities and student conferences – such as the recent CILT Student Conference…

Industrial visits in the Spring Term

Jaguar, Birmingham Every year Logistics and Supply Chain Management MSc students visit the Jaguar factory in Birmingham. Pictures inside the factory aren’t allowed, but you can see the journey and some of the fast food eaten on the way! The visit gives some insights into the complexity of automotive logistics and lean manufacturing in practice….

OSTC Brighton v Sussex Trading Challenge 2017

The annual OSTC Trading Challenge provides a unique opportunity for our finance students to trade, in a virtual environment, through futures derivatives in a number of products including; commodities, equities and fixed income. The prices, the news, the winning and the losing are real; the positions, profits and losses are imaginary. The Trading Challenge teaches students…

The Annual Law Careers Question Time: 28/02/16 @ 17:30

Don’t miss this year’s BBS Law Careers Question Time! Similar to BBC’s Question Time, each year we hold an event for all Law students, providing them with the opportunity to question Barristers, Solicitors, Judges and other professionals who work within a law-related career. Panel members will answer a range of questions from the audience. This is…

Best publication prize for Marie-Bénédicte Dembour

On 10 February, Professor Marie-Bénédicte Dembour received the Best Publication prize awarded by the Odysseus Academic Network which recognises outstanding academic research in the area of European Immigration or Asylum Law. The Best Publication Prize recognises an outstanding contribution to the field by a more experienced researcher or professor. Professor Marie-Bénédicte Dembour was a joint winner…

MBA Marketing Masterclass: the benefits of using the case study method

Dr Véronique Boulocher-Passet, Senior Lecturer in Marketing In teaching marketing to the MBA students, my choice naturally heads towards using the case method, which has endured as an effective teaching tool in business education for more than a century. A case study, or case, describes an actual situation and involves a decision, a challenge, an opportunity,…