• 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.
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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.
“My brothers and I have that entrepreneurial spirit. My two brothers are successful entrepreneurs and my Italian heritage has been in restaurants.”
Mark said the Edinburgh Business School MBA planted the seed firmly in his mind that “ordinary people can do great things.”
“I have always found real life examples of successful business on the ground really inspiring, and my studies motivated me to think long and hard about how I could apply my technical
knowledge and experience to further my own dreams of becoming an entrepreneur. Mohammed Al Jaber, the CEO of the Al Jaber Group asked me to form AJA Private Jets with him, as he has been interested in the airline industry for many years. Mr Al Jaber, as the CEO of AJA, appointed me to the role of Chief Operating Officer, a position that wouldn’t have been possible without my learning through Edinburgh Business School. Today the airline has over 75 members of staff and five large jets flying worldwide. We did all this in four short years, truly a success story for aviation in this difficult time.
“Studying at night on your own can be isolating and students can become demoralised. Now, with social media, alumni events and smart phone technology, students don’t have to feel isolated. Knowing you’re part of a global network of students at Edinburgh Business School, working towards the same goals, helps keep you going. If you’re having a problem, from getting motivated, to juggling commitments with your studies, you can bet that someone else will be going through the same thing. It’s important to keep connected when studying online, and this is where Edinburgh Business School excels, as the UAE group of students is part of a massive family of like-minded students all over the world.”
If he has one piece of advice for managers who are thinking awbout doing an MBA but who might think they don’t have the time or the money to do one, he says this: “Executives with ambitions to get into senior management or onto the board should do an MBA. Masters degrees are usually in a specific subject. Senior management employees are expected to have generalist business education and knowledge and this is where an MBA really comes into its own.”
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