THE ASSOCIATION OF BUSINESS SCHOOLS IS THE VOICE FOR THE UK’S BUSINESS SCHOOLS AND INDEPENDENT MANAGEMENT COLLEGES
ABS sets the agenda for business and management education in the UK within an increasingly international environment.
It develops influential policies and promotes, communicates and lobbies on these at local, regional, national and international levels as appropriate.
Collectively, our members provide business and management education for over 250,000 students a year.
ABS works with similar organisations in Europe and around the world including: • The Arab Society of Faculties of Business
• Economics and Political Sciences (BEPS)
• Association of African Business Schools
• Association of Asia Pacific Business Schools • Association of
Graduate Recruiters
• Baltic Management Development Association
• British Council • Canadian Federation of Business School Deans
• Chartered Institute of Public Relations
• European Foundation for Management Development
• 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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issues which include mergers and acquisitions, global compliance, employment laws which vary from country to country, intellectual property including counterfeiting, real estate, licensing and trade laws - the complex nature of getting goods from one country to another. Fashion professionals must have a basic understanding of these issues to compete in a challenging industry.”
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College officials are gearing up for a marketing drive to promote the LLM in North America and Southeast Asia – with prospective Canadian law students especially in their crosshairs
The global marketplace in post- graduate degrees is increasingly competitive - and College of Law officials are tackling the challenge head on with a vigorous global road show promoting the innovative nature of its LLM.
The college is focussing this year on the two international common law legal hubs of North America and South-east Asia. Senior managers will be heading first to Hong Kong, with Canada, Malaysia and Singapore also on the tour list before the end of 2012.
Canada represents fertile ground for the LLM as when combined with its LLB it offers law students from that country an almost unique opportunity.
LLM bonus
Canadian students who complete the college’s accelerated two-yearLLB can extend their stay in London
by a year to do the one-year full- time LLM. When they return to Canada they will only be required to do a short
burst of additional tests - called ‘challenged exams’ - before being able to sit their individual provincial bar exams to qualify.
That means those students qualify as lawyers almost as quickly as they would do if they had stayed at home, and they have the bonus of having a highly desirable LLM under their belts - in addition to the experience of living overseas.
Canadian LLB degrees take three years to complete with no benefit of an LLM on top. Also, if Canadian students came to London just to do the LLB and then return, they will have to sit a far more extended and complex series of challenged exams.
Global firm interest
Adding to the attraction of having such a heavy dose of English legal education for prospective Canadian lawyers is the increasing interest that London-based global law firms are taking in that jurisdiction.
That point was highlighted at beginning of this year when global player Norton Rose merged with leading Canadian law firm Macleod
Dixon. Since that deal was struck, the firm has named as its first non- English chairman Canadian partner Norman Steinberg. While the college sees plenty of scope for marketing its LLM in Canada, moving south to take a slice of the huge US market remains elusive for the time being. However, there are plenty of international opportunities remaining, not least in the Far East.
A senior staffer is headed to Hong Kong at the end of July to promote the course at one of the region’s leading events for graduate and post-graduate students. He will then head later in the year to Malaysia and Singapore.
Liberalised legislation College officials are confident that the LLM appeals in those jurisdictions because they are international legal hubs with, yet again, much English and US law firm interest. Indeed, only a few days ago, Malaysia’s Legal Profession Bill was tabled in parliament for a second reading, taking the country a step closer to a more liberalised regime that will allow foreign firms a foothold in the local market.
Singapore is already a relatively open playing field for global firms. At the beginning of May, leading Netherlands law firm De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek said it expected to open an office shortly in the city-state, while earlier this year US firm Squire Sanders received a licence following similar moves by London firms LG and Withers.
Europe is also on the college’s LLM marketing hit list. Officials maintain that Germany remains a potentially fruitful market as there is already strong evidence that German graduate students are keen to do masters courses in the UK.
Black-Letter of the Law Earn while you learn
While the IBA-College of Law LLM provides students with crucial skills in modern lawyering, its core purpose is to give graduates a crucial technical specialism in cross-border commercial law
Commercial lawyers can no longer afford to be tied to their home jurisdictions’ apron strings – they must take on the global village by expanding their awareness of cross- border legal issues.
Becoming an ICAEW Chartered Accountant is straightforward – you train for and complete the ACA qualification as part of your job. The ACA is one of the most advanced learning and professional development programmes available. With training that delivers a combination of technical knowledge, professional skills and practical experience across accountancy, finance and business it’ll ensure you’ll always be in demand.
That potentially career-saving advice comes from the top levels of the administration of the joint International Bar Association-College of Law LLM in International Legal Practice. The organisers stress that nuts-and-bolts black-letter law is at the heart of the LLM course, which is geared to give graduates a competitive edge in the increasingly global practice of commercial law.
‘If you are an international lawyer or a lawyer at a large commercial law firm, you can’t simply say: “I just do English law.” It just doesn’t work like that anymore,’ warns Martin Smith, the college’s head of business development.
Technical study
Course administrators point out that the five-year old LLM provides students with a fine-tuned specialisation in cross-border law, with the recently launched full-time course being even more steeped in technical study.
Its six modules – business, finance and the legal services market, international intellectual property, international competition and anti-trust, international mergers and acquisitions, international joint ventures, and international arbitration practice – all lean strongly towards the study of cross-border issues. Which means that while the modules all examine the law from a UK perspective, they also focus substantially on other major j
ACA training is a mixture of classroom learning and work experience with an ICAEW authorised training employer to build your accountancy, finance and business knowledge, professional skills and ethical understanding. Your employer will fund all of your training and you earn a competitive salary from day one. Salaries for ACA students and qualified ICAEW Chartered Accountants are on a par with those in banking or law, with typical graduate starting salaries up to £25,500 and many ACA students doubling their salary during training.
Routes to training
With more than 2,850 authorised training employers around the world, and over 6,000 ACA vacancies every year, there’ll be an ACA training vacancy just for you. From accountancy firms to retail organisations, financial institutions to airlines, or if you’d rather work in the public or not-for-profit sector, there are a whole variety of employers you can train with.
ACA entry requirements
Entry requirements differ across employers but as a guideline our suggested minimum entry requirements for the ACA qualification are; • Three GCSEs or equivalent (most employers expect A or B grades in Maths and English)
• Two A-levels, or their equivalents, in any subject. Many employers will be looking for a minimum of
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urisdictions. For example, the M&A module concentrates significantly on the US jurisdictions, while the competition module has a heavy dose of EU and US law. Indeed, the competition module is especially illustrative of this approach. It focuses heavily on areas such as articles 101 and 102 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU and also on major US legislation such as the Sherman Anti-trust Act, which, while more than 100 years old, is still highly relevant to all businesses doing cross-border deals in America.
• A first or 2:1 in any degree discipline
But the LLM’s competition module doesn’t simply focus on the two huge jurisdictions of the EU and US – it also delves into regulatory issues in Australia and South Africa.
Merger regimes
The M&A field is another example of the international black-letter law focus of the LLM. As Mr Smith explains, these days only the smallest mergers do not involve cross-border issues. ‘The chances are that if they are of a certain size,’ he says, ‘there is a high probability that those mergers will have to be cleared by the relevant authorities in numerous jurisdictions – the US, Europe, China, just to name the most obvious. So the LLM provides a strong and invaluable grounding in how those regimes work, for example, around the highly complex threshold rules in each jurisdiction, which are especially
‘Historically, lawyers had some depth of knowledge of different subjects, now they need a great deal of depth in a narrow subject area but in a wider number of jurisdictions.’
And a wider breadth of knowledge is exactly what the course administrators maintain is what students will receive from the full-time, face-to-face London-based LLM.
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For Mr Smith, the issue is not one of multiple qualifications, but of gaining a sufficient multi-jurisdictional grounding so that lawyers can make educated and informed decisions.
‘Today’s commercial lawyers don’t all need to be specialists in cross-border fields,’ he says. ‘For example an EU competition lawyer needn’t also be a specialist in American anti-trust law. But that lawyer needs to know the issues sufficiently well so he can contact an American specialist. An English lawyer won’t be qualified to advise on the intricacies of the US anti-trust law, but the LLM will have put that person in a position where he can recognise the issues and then go to the right US expert.
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LL.M in International Legal Practice (full-time)
Designed in conjunction with the International Bar Association, this LL.M is a tailored, professional programme for graduates and practising lawyers seeking career-enhancing postgraduate legal qualifications. The programme is aimed specifically at building cross-border commercial legal knowledge.
Full-time programme in London (30 hours per week)
This full-time LL.M programme counts towards The College of Law/IBA LL.M in International Legal Practice.
• Starts in September 2012 at our London Moorgate centre
• You’ll study a programme of six of our unique, practice-driven international LL.M modules full-time and complete your dissertation over a 10-month period
• Three workshops per week – 2.5 hours each, between September 2012 and February 2013
• Supported by i-Tutorials, online test and feedback exercises and independent learning and research
On successful completion, you’ll be awarded a fellowship to the International Bar Association, which provides two years
free membership and a free invitation to attend the IBA’s Annual Conference in Boston in 2013, after graduation in recognition of your achievement.
Studying international legal practice with us can open up new career opportunities, whether with law firms of for anyone aspiring to international legal practice around the globe.
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Full-time LL.M programme modules • Business, finance and the legal services market • (IBA) International arbitration practice • (IBA) International mergers and acquisitions practice • (IBA) International intellectual property practice • (IBA) International joint ventures • (IBA) International competition/anti-trust law and practice
Our London campus
As a global commercial and financial centre and home to many of the world’s leading international law firms, London is the ideal location to gain your LL.M in International Legal Practice.
Located in the heart of the City of London financial district, close to leading global law firms, our Moorgate campus is the largest specialist corporate law school in the UK. It offers top-class facilities in a purpose- built, corporate-style building.
Further afield
The capital’s public transport network of buses and trains – overground and underground – give access to all parts of Greater London. Alternatively, you can use one of the regional transport hubs to go anywhere in the UK. The Eurostar train station at St Pancras provides a link with continental Europe and London is served by Heathrow and Gatwick international airports.
Accommodation
We can arrange accommodation options for our international students with some of the UK’s leading student accommodation providers, to ensure you have a safe, comfortable place to live while you’re studying at The College of Law. By staying in College-nominated accommodation, you’ll get to meet students studying at universities across London, as well as live with your fellow College students.
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