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Armed forces personnel go from the firing line to the hiring line

Business graduates face many problems but the destruction by rocket of the office is not usually among them. Group Captain Dean Andrew, aged 41, takes such occupational hazards in his stride, as he gets on with his current job of making Basra airport fit to hand back to the Iraqi people.

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Out to beat the cheats

Thursday, 9 October 2008

The body that runs the business school entrance test is taking action to stop plagiarism.

Teaching creativity to the next generation of entrepreneurs is not as wacky as it sounds

Thursday, 9 October 2008

It used to be so simple. You did your MBA and a glittering career in banking or consultancy beckoned. Not any more. All those old financial certainties have suddenly vanished, and today an exciting and successful future is much more likely to depend on your ability to carve out your own path.

Crunch time for MBAs: What effect does an economic downturn have on business schools and their students?

Thursday, 9 October 2008

It used to be a rule of thumb in the business education world that when the economy was heading downhill, applications to MBA courses would experience a healthy upswing. Redundancies often increased the pool of people with the time and inclination to do a period of study. And beefing up one's CV made sense, in preparation for the upswing that (inevitably) followed leaner times.

Best of both worlds: A growing number of graduates are taking an MBA after a Masters

Thursday, 9 October 2008

Given that he already has a Masters degree in business, Juan Muntaner might at first glance appear to be an unlikely candidate now to be doing an MBA.

Business schools are teaming up to give students an international edge

Thursday, 9 October 2008

One of the executives taking part in ESADE business school's new global MBA is a Brazilian working for a Canadian company based in South Africa who travels extensively as part of his job. The Spanish school says a student with this sort of broad international background is typical of the executive who's attracted to a global MBA.

Profile: Henley Business School at the University of Reading

Thursday, 9 October 2008

An unlikely union has worked wonders for student numbers.

Let the hunt begin: Start your job search early

Thursday, 9 October 2008

Where will this year's MBA students end up working, as they emerge a year down the line, clutching hard-won qualifications? There's no doubt that they face not just market downslide, the end or scale of which no one is predicting with certainty, but a sea change in prospects in some areas traditionally targeted by MBAs – even the big name investment banks remaining are shifting ground and moving into commercial loans. Predicting the future has suddenly become much more difficult.

Why do business school academics speak a language of their own?

Thursday, 9 October 2008

In 2004, Philip Delves Broughton was working as a journalist for the Daily Telegraph in Paris. His job made him the envy of many, but after becoming increasingly uncertain about his future in the industry, and having harboured a long standing interest in the financial world, he took the bold decision to enrol on the famous Harvard Business School MBA programme.

Paying the cost to be the boss: A range of loans can help students to pay high course fees

Thursday, 9 October 2008

In a recent book about his experiences studying for an MBA at Harvard, journalist Philip Delves Broughton describes his surprise at the number of expensive cars in the student car park. He found out later that this was no mere extravagance. By buying the cars, the students had emptied their bank accounts enough to qualify for financial aid.

'I scaled the heights of the music industry with an MBA'

Thursday, 9 October 2008

Maggie Miller likes to climb mountains in her spare time. But to scale the heights of the music industry without a first degree she took an MBA at the Open University. She tells Martin Thompson about her journey

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