Business Management

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Winchester Business School
Malek Azizeh Eric Bodger Katie Bull Julia
Burgess Robert Case Ross Catterall Elwyn Cox Mike
Davies Katrina Easterling Jane Fairclough Dr
George Filis Hazel Gant Richard Graham Chris
Grover Prof Neil Marriott Stella McKnight Dr
David Rush Dr Paul Sheeran
Welcome 2008
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About Us

• Courses
• Location
• People
• Atmosphere
• Expectations
• More details at our web sitehttp//www.winchester
  .ac.uk/bm/

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How do we rate?

• Rated 34th of 115 Business Schools in 2007
  Guardian survey
• Steady improvement in Guardian surveys since 2004
  already in top half of British Business
  departments, rose to 42nd in 2005
• Highly placed in 2006 National Student Survey
• Excellent retention rates
• Friendly atmosphere
• Quality Assurance Agency score of 22 from 24
  rated excellent
• Added-value from registration to graduation
• Innovative and flexible degrees

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Where we Stand
Top
Bottom
University of Winchester
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Expectations

• High added value
• Value for money
• A quality educational experience
• An excellent learning environment
• Staff with significant business experience
• A strong focus on the teaching and learning
• A human scale we care for and challenge
  students
• A programme offering choice and flexibility

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Courses

• Business Management Single Honours with optional
  specialist pathways in
• E-Commerce
• Finance Economics
• Human Resource Management
• Information Technology
• Public Service Management
• Marketing
• Business Management in Combined Honours
• BAMBA Business and Management BA (HND top-up)

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Single Honours Course
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Single Honours Modules
http//www.winchester.ac.uk/bm/
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Combined Honours

• Study Business Management with another subject
  of your choice
• Equal in first year, then choose
• Joint Equal taught modules over levels 2 3
• Develop functional business skills and
  quantitative/qualitative research skills
• Main 75 Business, 25 subsidiary subject
• Deeper and more extensive knowledge
• Subsidiary 25 Business 75 other
• Develop functional business skills

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Sample Timetable
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Combined Honours Modules Year 1
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UndergraduateStudent Profile

• Single honours 60-75 students each year
• Combined honours 40-50 students each year
• Gender balance 50 male 50 female
• Overseas students Japan, China, Slovakia, Ghana,
  Germany, Holland, Hungary, South Africa,
  Turkey, USA
• Total across all business programmes lt 500
  students (full time equiv)

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Atmosphere Campus
Name not a number Big enough to matter Small
enough to care
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BAMBA

• Top-up from HND
• BA in a single calendar year
• Bridging module, 6 level three modules, and a
  final year project
• Entry requires a merit profile HND
• Pass profile may give direct entry to year 2 of
  Business Management Single Honours

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BAMBA (top up degree)
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Developing Key Abilities

• Employers expect knowledge and skills
• Communications oral and written
• Numerical ability
• Team working skills
• Analytical and problem solving
• Independent working and learning
• Our task staff and students is to develop these
  key abilities
• in the taught programme
• in student assessment
• by provision of specialist support

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Keys to student success ?

• Wanting to study business management
• Maintaining an interest in the subject and having
  an enquiring mind
• Investment time, books and materials
• Using the teaching staff and the support services
  if needed
• Not being satisfied with just getting by
• Balanced lifestyle
• Study in class and private study
• Social life
• Paid employment

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Graduation what next?

• Learning and development does not stop here!
• Employment with structured development
• Further Study Post Graduate Programmes
  Professional Qualification

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Please feel free to ask any questions?

• or look in http//www.winchester.ac.uk/bm/

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Good Luck
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Broad range of Programmes

• As well as conventional three-year BA, we have
• Foundation degree in Basingstoke
• Top-up from HND or FdA to BA degree(10 month in
  Winchester, part-time in Basingstoke)
• MA in Managing Contemporary Global Issues
• Plans for new MSc programmes
• Intention is appropriate programmes for a wide
  range of potential students

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Progression
Conventional 16-18
Existing workforce
HND or equivalent
BA Business Management
Foundation degree
BAMBA (FT or PT)
Masters programmes (new in 2007)
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From September 2007

• Family of Foundation degrees
• General management
• Specialist pathways for specific industries, e.g.
• Management (Logistics Supply chain)
• Chute House Basingstoke
• also offered at local partner Colleges
• Feeds into existing BAMBA top-up BA

• Family of Business Management Masters
• Core MSc in Business Management
• With optional pathways in
• Marketing
• International Business Finance
• and MSc top-ups from
• CIPD PG diploma
• CIM PG certificate

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Basingstoke Programmes

• Foundation Degree in Management
• Part-time
• Aimed at those who previously left education
• Attracts motivated people, mainly in responsible
  jobs
• Natural progress into BAMBA top-up to honours

• MA Managing Contemporary Global Issues
• Strong international focus
• Full- or part-time