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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CASE STUDY Dr Mark J Pierotti FRAeS. MBA. IEng.
Chief Operating Officer, AJA Private Jets – Abu Dhabi, Edinburgh Business School MBA graduate Dr Mark Pierotti has always aimed high. As a young man, in the UK, he was sponsored by British Airways to do a degree in aircraft engineering. Fast forward 25 years and he is now the Chief Operating Officer of prestige Abu Dhabi-based private jet company AJA Private Jets, a position he says he would not achieved without his Edinburgh Business School MBA.
“We started the company as the Global Financial Crisis hit,” he said. “With the economic climate changing fast we asked ourselves if we should cancel the project, but ultimately we had faith in what we were doing so we went ahead. My MBA studies helped me rationalise what was happening out there in economies around the world. We have never looked back and are proud of our success so far.”
Mark moved out to the Emirates 20 years ago starting with Emirates Airline and was then employed for 12 years by the UAE Presidential Flight as an aircraft engineering manager but eventually his family’s entrepreneurial spirit got the better of him and he decided to study for his MBA with Edinburgh Business School.
“It was the start of my studies with the Edinburgh Business School in Dubai that really sparked my interest in business, but I guess it had always been there, due to my family connections with the world of business,” he said.
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NOTTINGHAM BUSINESS SCHOOL If You See Things Differently, We Can See You Here
Whether you want to delve deeper into the world of business and management, or you want to gain a competitive edge at a time of growing uncertainty, then postgraduate study at Nottingham Business School is the right choice for you.
Why study at Nottingham Business School?
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• NTU is in the top ten for the number of Business students taking postgraduate Diplomas and Certificates, and has the largest number of taught doctorate students in the UK (HESA 09-10).
• We enjoy links with more than 800 companies and 60 academic institutions across 40 different countries.
• The Business School has achieved a high quality Teaching Award from the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA) of which we are an accredited study centre.
If he has one piece of advice for managers who are thinking about do an MBA but who might think they don have the time or the money to do one he says this: “Executives with ambitio to get into senior management or onto the board should do an MBA. Masters degrees are usually in a specific subject. Senior management employee are expected to have generalist business education and knowledge and this is where an MBA really comes into its own.”
• The School is accredited by the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) and we are a leading provider of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) approved courses.
• Nottingham Business School is a member of the European Forum for Management Development (EFMD), the Confederation of
British Industry (CBI) and the Association of Business Schools (ABS).
Enhancing your studies – Free iPad 3
All full-time Masters and MBA students joining Nottingham Business School this year (2012 entry) are entitled to an iPad 3 to help enhance their learning experience.
Students will be provided with the iPad 3 upon commencing the course to access the latest learning materials. Additionally, students will also be supplied with a small number of eBooks related to the subject of study.
Why take your studies further?
A postgraduate or professional qualification is much sought after by employers in a number of sectors. As companies readjust in times of economic hardship, they will look to the more highly skilled and imaginative employees who are indispensable for their future success.
At Nottingham Business School we offer a range of postgraduate and professional courses all of which have been designed to equip you with the enhanced skills and leading edge thinking to meet the ever changing needs of business.
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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-year LLB 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
LL.M in International Legal Practice
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 qualifi cations. The programme is aimed specifi cally at building cross- border commercial legal knowledge.
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
The benefi ts of the LL.M in International Legal Practice You choose what to study
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.
• Tailor what you study to your career path and/or practice area
• All modules are practice-led with contributions from leading global law fi rms
You choose how to study • Study your LL.M at a time and place that suits you Full-time LL.M in London
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.
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.
• Starts in September 2013 at our London Moorgate centre • Three workshops per week – 2.5 hours each • Supported by i-Tutorials, online test and feedback exercises and independent learning and research
S-mode modules
• Start in January or July each year • Online study with one-to-one online supervision from a College tutor • Nine units per module
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.
• We supply an extensive suite of user-friendly, practical course material including electronic learning aids
You choose your pace of learning
• Modular course design enables you to determine your own pace of learning
• S-mode modules start in January and July each year Black-Letter of the Law
Register now and take that step for educational and career development
While the IBA-College of Law LLM provides students with crucial skills in modern lawyering, its core purpose is to give graduates a crucial
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.
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Global Professional Training with the International Bar Association and the College of Law – the practical route to enhance your career.
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.
Business, fi nance and the legal services market January 2013 International intellectual property practice International commercial legal practice International public companies practice
International capital markets and loans practice January 2013 International mergers and acquisitions practice January 2013 International antitrust practice
International business organisations International arbitration practice International joint ventures
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 jurisdictions. 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.
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Our London campus
As a global commercial and fi nancial centre and hom world’s leading international law fi rms, London is the gain your LL.M in International Legal Practice.
Located in the heart of the City of London fi nancial di leading global law fi rms, our Moorgate campus is the corporate law school in the UK. It offers top-class facili built, corporate-style building.
Further afi eld
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.
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 difficult in the European context.’
On successful completion, you’ll be awarded a fellowship to the International Bar Association, which provides two years
‘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.’
free membership and a free invitation to attend the IBA’s Annual Conference in Boston in 2013, after graduation in recognition of your achievement.
For Mr Smith, the issue is not one of multiple qualifications, but of gaining a sufficient multi-jurisdictional
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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Studying international legal practice with us can open up new career opportunities, whether with law fi rms of for anyone aspiring to international legal practice around the globe.
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The capital’s public transport network of buses and trains and underground – give access to all parts of Greater Lon Alternatively, you can use one of the regional transport hu anywhere in the UK. The Eurostar train station at St Pancra a link with continental Europe and London is served by Hea Gatwick international airports.
grounding so that lawyers can make educated and informed decisions.
Accommodation
We can arrange accommodation options for our international with some of the UK’s leading student accommodation provide ensure you have a safe, comfortable place to live while you’re s at The College of Law. By staying in College-nominated accomm you’ll get to meet students studying at universities across Londo as live with your fellow College students.
‘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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