Professor Neil Marriott Head of School

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An Introduction to Winchester Business School
Professor Neil Marriott Head of School
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About Us

• Reputation
• Faculty
• Courses
• Students
• Location
• Atmosphere
• Expectations

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Reputation

• Rated in top half of British Business Schools
• Quality Assurance Agency rated excellent
• National Student Satisfaction Survey 4th in UK
  and 1st in the South of England
• Excellent retention rates
• Friendly atmosphere
• Added-value fromregistration to graduation
• Innovative new degrees

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Faculty Members
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 Dr. Chris Grover Nigel Paterson Prof Dan
Remenyi Dr. David Rush Debra Shadmand Dr. Paul
Sheeran
Business and academic experience Subject
specialists, able to put into context
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Courses Overview

• Foundation degrees
• FdA Management
• FdA Management with
• Health and Social Care
• Information Technology
• Logistics and Supply Chain
• Sport
• Undergraduate degrees
• Business Management
• Business Management with
• e-Commerce
• Finance Economics
• Human Resource Management
• Information Technology
• Marketing
• Public Service Management

• Postgraduate degrees
• MBA
• MSc Business Management
• MSc Business Management with
• Finance
• Marketing
• International Business
• MA International Communications
• MA Managing Global Issues
• Professional qualifications
• Chartered Institute of Marketing Graduate Diploma
• top up programmes from CIM and CIPD diplomas to
  MSc

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Undergraduate

• Business Management Single Honours with optional
  specialist pathways in
• e-Commerce
• Finance Economics
• Human Resource Management
• Information Technology
• Marketing
• Public Service Management
• Business Management in Combined Honours(in
  combination with a wide range of subjects)

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Single Honours ModulesFirst Year
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Single Honours with E-Commerce Specialism
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Combined Honours

• Study Business Management with another subject
• Equal in first year, then choose
• Joint Equal taught modules over levels 2
  3Develop functional business skills
  quantitative/ qualitative research skills
• Main 75 Business, 25 subsidiary
  subjectDeeper and more extensive knowledge
• Subsidiary 25 Business 75 otherDevelop
  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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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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What if I discover I have made the wrong choice!

• Transfer to another programme
• on arrival (subject to space being available)
• during 1st year (subject to compatibility)
• at the end of 1st year (subject to
  compatibility)

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Location
One hour from London Area of high employment Low
crime rates Excellent communication links Good
public transport
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Atmosphere City
Englands ancient capital
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Atmosphere Campus
Name not a number Big enough to matter Small
enough to care
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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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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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Any questions?

• Neil.Marriott_at_winchester.ac.uk