Students and alumni enjoy Beijing Global Residency and Ambassador's reception
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A group of MBA & MSc students from the School of Management travelled to Beijing recently for a week-long global residency at the University of Tsinghua.
A highlight of the week was a reception at the Ambassador’s residence in the British Embassy hosted by David Radcliffe, First Secretary of the Embassy and Fraser Attinborough, Deputy Head.
The reception was attended by the global residency participants as well as MBA students from Tsinghua University’s School of Economics and Management, plus around 30 members of our local Beijing alumni chapter.
The alumni in attendance represented the full range of our MBA and MSc programmes, all of whom now work in a wide-range of industries and companies, from KPMG, PwC and Accenture to Lenovo, Levi Strauss and IBM.
Dr Tony Roath, Senior Lecturer in International Management, Caroline Baldwin, Careers and Professional Development Coordinator, and Snow Wu, one of the founding chapter leaders, each gave a short address.
Caroline Baldwin said:
"The reception was a great networking success. It was wonderful to meet so many alumni and hear about what they had been doing since graduating. The alumni spoke very fondly of their time in Bath and are really keen to support and network with our new cohort of alumni. For the students participating in the global residency, the event provided the perfect complement to their company visits and lectures, providing an opportunity to hear first-hand about living and working in China. Our hosts at the Embassy told us how much they enjoyed hosting the event and how they hope to cooperate with us again in the future."
Notes to Editors
The School of Management provides global residencies for MBA and MSc students in collaboration with leading business schools in Russia, China and France. The trip will typically include company visits, lectures, case studies, cultural awareness events, sight-seeing and student presentations on a company project.
Our Beijing chapter was launched in August 2009 – Snow Wu is one of the founding chapter leaders, along with Jilly Li and Lanyi Zhang.
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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.
