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ABS: THE ASSOCIATION OF BUSINESS SCHOOLS


“While at University, I Achieved Seven Enterprise Awards for My Extra- Curricular Activities”


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usiness and management education delivered by ABS members continues to be the most popular single subject of study for students in UK universities. From the latest data (2007/08 HESA), 1 in 7 of all students were studying business and management. This represents 234,000 full-time equivalent (FTE) students at all levels of Higher Education: from Foundation Degree, through traditional three and four year undergraduate courses, specialist Masters, MBAs and Doctorates.


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


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


Den-meets-The-Apprentice-style competition where we developed, planned and presented a strategy for the business challenge to a judging panel of 10 business experts.


“I recently won a UK Shell LiveWIRE award. Shell LiveWIRE is UK’s biggest online community for young entrepreneurs aged 16 to 30. Winning this award gave me access to some funding, continued support from Shell and networking opportunities.


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