• The French Foundation for Management Education.


In 2008/9 students from over 200 different countries came to the UK to study business and management, from Azerbaijan to Zambia, with students from China, India, Nigeria, Germany and France the most numerous.


Business and management statistics:


Business and management continues to be the most popular subject area of study for undergraduates and continues to increase at a faster rate than the sector as a whole.


Finance and hospitality are two particular growth areas at all levels of study, with Marketing and Management both proving increasingly popular at


postgraduate level.


• 1 in 8 undergraduates chose business and management.


• 1 in 5 postgraduates chose business and management.


• 1 in 4 international students. • £2bn estimated contribution to UK export earnings.


• £7.5bn estimated contribution to regional economies. Source: HESA Student/Staff/Finance records 2009/10


Employers are looking for key skills including: communication, analytical and research abilities, good interpersonal skills and increasingly an awareness of sustainability practices for business and research.


So whether you want to work in management consultancy, local government, charity or for any other business or indeed start your own business, skills from a business and management course will place you in a good position to get a job and build a career.


New course directory coming soon listing all UK business school courses online – check our website for details.


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CASE STUDY “There is so much power business can harness as a force for


positive impact globally, and it’s happening now, with this next generation of leaders.” Shannon Springer (USA) –


University of Exeter Business School – One Planet MBA


There is an African proverb, “If you want to go fast, go alone, if you want to go far, go together”, which reflects the type of forward thinking collaborations needed today. The One Planet MBA is a unique partnership between WWF, the University of Exeter Business School and a dozen corporates.


But the integration of sustainability into business management is not niche; we are at the vanguard of what will become the standard in business education.


Waves of demonstrations spread across the world in Autumn 2011, triggered by protests on Wall Street in New York. During this time, a group of Harvard undergraduates walked out of their economics class. They were discontent with the limited view being taught in the introductory class, and how this bias affected the greater society. They simply couldn’t subscribe to the idea of infinite growth on a finite planet. They weren’t looking for


different answers, but rather for different questions – ones that would give them the ability to create new solutions.


Business schools have been talking about the economy in a way that is devoid of nearly any critical conversation of sustainability or human wellbeing. Without this understanding of the true economic, social and environmental interconnections, we begin to operate in bubbles.


We must learn to ask the right questions that think about the response and consequences of the whole system.


It is vital that we are producing agents of change through reimaging and reshaping how we educate our future business leaders.


There is so much power business can harness as a force for positive impact globally, and it’s happening now, with this next generation of leaders.


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