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oosting the local economy, bolstering its research
reputation, and training the future global business leaders, Cardiff Business School’s new Postgraduate Teaching Centre certainly has a lot to live up to. The £14.5m building
offi cially opened in September 2014, housing the latest technology, and with a renewed focus on providing students with ‘real-world’ business skills. Back then, Professor Colin
Riordan, Vice-Chancellor of Cardiff University, said that the new hub will not only help the business school at ract tomorrow’s best students, but it will also “help deliver Executive Education programmes for today’s business leaders, building long-term partnerships that bring signifi cant mutual benefi ts to the Business School and the University”. The School also hopes the
centre will help drive the local economy – independent studies show Cardiff Business School contributes over £76m to the Welsh economy every year.
Money well spent So what do you get for £14.5m? Two major lecture theatres, which can host almost 400 students, an executive education suite for short and bespoke programmes for middle and senior managers, 12 teaching and seminar rooms – fl exible in design to open up into larger spaces, MBA and MSC lounge areas, a Postgraduate hub – a one-stop shop for all postgraduate student enquiries and admin/course interactions, and the 60-seater ‘trading room’ for real-time trades in global stocks – more on the trading room later. The concourse area, lecture
theatres, teaching and common rooms and the executive education suite are all fi t ed with Stone Group hardware to enable collaboration on the University network.
AB OV E : The trading room provides students with the opportunity to gain practical skills req uired for life at the Stock E xchange
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