Inaugural Global MBA Residency held at Stellenbosch University
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Professor Richard Elliott, Dean of the University of Bath School of Management, joined seven Bath MBA students last month to take part in an inaugural Global Residency in collaboration with Stellenbosch University, South Africa. Also taking part in the residency was Dr Juani Swart, Director of the Work and Employment Research Centre (WERC) at the School of Management. Juani is also a visiting Professor at Stellenbosch.
Commenting on his return, Professor Elliott said:
“This residency underlines our commitment to partner with leading international business schools in order to offer a global experience to students on both the one-year full-time MBA and our part-time, Executive MBA programme. Other residencies are available through collaboration with Florida International Business School and Tsinghua Business School in China. These teaching partnerships extend and develop the global context we have firmly embedded across the Bath MBA and which includes opportunities for international syndicate and project work across both programmes.”
He continued:
“This development of a programme of Global MBA Residencies extends our long-standing partnerships with 40 international business schools which offer exchange and placement opportunities to our undergraduate students. The programme of Global MBA Residencies offers participating MBA students the opportunity to:
- heighten their awareness of international management issues by exposure to the business environment of another country;
- experience the impact of different political, economic, social and technological contexts on business activity;
- gain an insight into companies operating in another country;
- work on a small applied project in that country;
- apply knowledge from the classroom to a real situation.
Notes to Editors
The Bath MBA is a post-experience degree designed for people with a minimum of three years’ relevant management work experience. It looks beyond business processes and techniques to emphasise self-awareness, intuition, cross-cultural sensitivity and entrepreneurship skills, as well as a socially responsible and ethical approach to business and management.
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General Notes For Editors:
The University of Bath School of Management has consistently achieved both top research and teaching ratings in the UK's Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) assessments. In the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), the School was rated 5th in the UK for management research.
We are one of a select number of international business schools accredited by EQUIS, the European Foundation for Management Development's quality inspectorate and the Bath MBA has been accredited by the Association of MBAs (AMBA) since 1976. The School is consistently ranked among the top UK business schools by The Times, The Sunday Times, The Financial Times and The Guardian.
The centrality of research to teaching is an essential feature of all our programmes. The School offers a full range of programmes from undergraduate to postgraduate up to PhD level and post-experience programmes including the world-ranked Bath MBA. The School also provides tailored executive development programmes for middle and senior management.
The School of Management has a faculty of around 90 teaching and research staff, including visiting academics, with a support team of around 70 managerial and administrative staff. Research income averages £2 million per annum. There are approximately 2,100 students in total comprising some 200 MBA students, 460 Master’s students, 210 full- and part-time research students, and over 1100 undergraduates following BSc degrees. The School also runs joint undergraduate programmes with Departments in the Faculties of Engineering and Design, Science and Humanities and Social Sciences.
