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employees seeking to sharpen their ICT skills and gain a full honours degree alongside their employment, while paying no student fees and earning a wage throughout. The government is providing two
thirds of the funding for training the degree apprentices. Other universities working with
employers to shape and provide the degrees include: Aston, Exeter, Greenwich, Loughborough, University College London, University of the West of England and Winchester. Liz Gorb, Enterprise Fellow at MMU
Centre for Enterprise, said: “The aim is to integrate academic learning at degree level with work-based training. Students earn while they learn and come away with skills that are directly relevant to employers, who have an opportunity to instil their own business culture and working style from an early stage. “The core content of the degree
includes technological support, software development, database management, security and business organisation, but the integrated learning approach of workplace training and assessment makes the course highly flexible to employer demands – whatever the size or sector of the organisation.”
Bloomberg Lab for Anglia Ruskin
The real world of financial trading has entered the classroom, thanks to a new state-of-the-art Bloomberg room which has opened on Anglia Ruskin University’s Chelmsford campus. The £160,000 Bloomberg Financial
Markets Lab is housed in the Lord Ashcroft International Business School and will play a major role in the various finance, accounting, banking and economics courses offered on Anglia Ruskin’s Chelmsford campus. The Bloomberg Financial Markets Lab
has 16 terminals, four screens showing Bloomberg News, BBC World, CNBC and Sky News, and a 'ticker' displaying share prices from stock markets worldwide. Students can use the portfolio manager
facility on Bloomberg – the world’s leading platform for global business and finance news, data, analytical tools and research – to trade and invest using virtual money. This enables students to understand
the event of an emergency many students automatically called 999 but SafeZone provides a more targeted method of summoning assistance on campus.”
the strategies and techniques employed by real-life traders and investors as they aim to maximise portfolio returns. Dr Hassaan Khan, Senior Lecturer in
Finance at Anglia Ruskin, said: “Our aim is to provide students with an experience as close as possible to a real financial organisation. “The Bloomberg Financial Markets
Lab allows our students to work on a broad range of financial, economic and accounting activities, including portfolio management, risk management, derivative markets, currency markets, financial engineering and corporate finance. The rolling news channels also highlight how major developments have an immediate impact on the global economy. “The fact our students are using the
same platform as leading business, trading, finance and governmental institutions will give them confidence and, we hope, an advantage when they are applying for jobs with real financial institutions.” In addition to various undergraduate
and postgraduate business courses, the Bloomberg Financial Markets Lab will also be used to offer professional short courses in finance as well as special 'trading events' for local schoolchildren.
ABOVE AND RIGHT: The new state-of-the- art Bloomberg room
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