MBAs Guide
MBA graduates face the toughest job market for years
But the best prepared and most adaptable are still landing work
Inside MBAs Guide
Are business schools doing enough to make women welcome?
Thursday, 7 October 2010
For the past 30 years, business schools have been bemoaning a lack of women on their MBAs. And progress has been made – from virtually none during the Eighties, there are now three women for every seven men on an MBA course worldwide. But numbers seem to have reached a plateau in the past few years, with MBAs lagging behind the likes of law and medical school, and especially undergraduate business degrees, which attract roughly the same numbers of men and women.
Buoyed by a new 20-acre campus, Edhec aims to become a research powerhouse
Thursday, 7 October 2010
Optimism is the order of the day at Edhec Business School. The Grand École just outside Lille in northern France is the country's biggest provider of management education and is now trying to transform itself into an international education and research powerhouse. It has built a new campus, opened six research centres, and energetically recruited faculty and students from around the world. Edhec's rise is the latest sign of how French and European business education is reinventing itself for the 21st century.
2012 Games: From intern to sports operations chief
Thursday, 7 October 2010
Chris Lipscomb tells Peter Brown how he landed a job procuring equipment for the 2012 Games
Business students inspired by a passage to India
Thursday, 7 October 2010
Widget Finn reports on a self-funded trip to study innovation and enterprise
'I studied for my Masters while biking through Africa
Thursday, 7 October 2010
Many students take their MBA at a distance – but few stretch the idea as far as Nigel Clifford, 47, who studied towards his Open University qualification while riding an off-road motorbike from England to Gambia, in West Africa. Now sales manager for Airflow Engineering, a company selling specialist equipment to industry, he has a background in the chemical industry and in developing care homes for the elderly, and decided to take an MBA in order to boost his career.
Professor Martin Binks: 'We must promote sustainable leadership'
Thursday, 7 October 2010
Director, Nottingham University Business School
Potential African leaders of the future given a helping hand
Thursday, 7 October 2010
Hilary Wilce reports on Edinburgh Business School's ambitious outreach programme
How to stand out from the crowded marketplace
Thursday, 7 October 2010
With take-up for full-time courses falling, Michael Prest looks at how business schools are responding
Log on to a brave new world of education
Thursday, 7 October 2010
What is better: e-learning or books? Peter Brown looks at the varied ways of absorbing information
What does the future holds for public sector applications?
Thursday, 7 October 2010
Expected spending cuts prompt a rethink