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WelcomeAwarm welcome to the start of a new academic year. For those students who arestarting their studies with us for the first time we are very pleased that you havechosen to come to Anglia Ruskin University. A particularly warm welcome to all ourstudents from overseas – we hope you enjoy your studies in the UK. All the staffwithin the Business School wish you every success in your studies for the comingyear – we know you will be working hard but also that your student experience willtake in the broader opportunities of coming to university.

I hope you find this Newsletter both interesting and informative. There are lots ofexciting things going on in the School – we are growing new areas of activity bothon campus and through our collaborative partnerships in the UK and overseas.You may be interested to know that the Business School has as many studentsstudying off campus as we have studying on our two campuses in Cambridge andChelmsford.

For those students studying in Cambridge you will have noticed that the campus isundergoing some re-development. This is an exciting project that follows on from allthe development work that has taken place on the Chelmsford campus over the lastfew years. The Business School will be one of the early beneficiaries of this re-development with a new building due to be built in the first phase of the project.Having the builders on site will cause some inconvenience and we appreciate yoursupport and understanding as the building work progresses through the year.

Whether you are studying in Cambridge or Chelmsford I know all our staff –academic and support – will be there to help you and make sure your experience isan enjoyable and rewarding one. Don’t be wary of asking a question or seeking outhelp should you need it – my colleagues and I will be happy to help.

So I wish you a good year and every success in your studies whether you are a firstyear student, a returning student or a final year student – good luck.

Martin ReynoldsProfessor Vice Chancellor and Dean

Contents

WelcomeContentsFocus on Teaching

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3-4 Knowledge Transfer Partnerships5 Don’t Get Snookered...

Join the Winners!5 Be a GRLI Ambassador!6 Lord Ashcroft makes

second £5m gift7-8 Winner Takes All!9 Student Consultancy Team

Working withCambridge Business

10 AIBS Team Participates atFLUX National Final 2009

11 HOTS Business PlanCompetition Won by AIBS Team

12 Anglia Ruskin students steal theshow at the Sarawak Regatta

13 Career Fair for KBU graduates14 AIBS Supports Trinidad and

Tobago’s Vision 202014 MBA Overseas Residential

Study Visit in Berlin15 Berlin and Cambridge

MBA joint module16 Cambridge Tech DEMO Night16 Research Taster

Placement Scheme17 Indigenous Management

Practices Conference, India17 Conference of the British

Association of Spirituality17 The 10th International

Federation of ScholarlyAssociations ofManagement

18 European Centre for BusinessResearch Methods, Valetta, Malta

18 Superb Finnish!19 From Ability to Employability –

the role of placements19 The ‘Benefit’ of Placements20 Shortcut to Success20 Global Language Success21 Anglia Ruskin Employer

Mentoring Scheme22 Getting a Job!22 Twitter with AIBS_Library22 New Careers Website23 Before you Forget24 Journal of Finance and

Management in Public Services –Now Online!

Professor Martin Reynolds

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Focus on Teaching

It is good to see so much activity on campus as many of you returnand new students join us. Term started for new students inChelmsford with a business game which I hope you enjoyed.Please let us know if you did either by word of mouth or throughthe Comments, Compliments and Concerns box adjacent to theFaculty Office on the third floor of Michael Ashcroft Building (MAB)where you will find administrative staff and most lecturers. You maywell have met Hannah, our newly appointed Student ExperienceCoordinator at Chelmsford as she was involved in the activities.Our new Cambridge Student Experience Coordinator is Alison andshe will be arranging activities, particularly to integrate our largenumber of international students in Cambridge.

We have made arrangements to allocate you a Personal Tutor andyou can check on eVision to see who this is. Normally you will seethe same person throughout your study and by now you shouldhave met them and do make sure you see them again by week 6.You can organise to see them, or indeed any of your module tutors,by checking their availability in the Faculty Office and on their officedoor. All full time staff publish three hours a week when they willbe available out of class to talk to students. Each year group has anumber of students who act as student representatives attendingthe Programme Committee each semester and feeding back anyissues from other students. If you are interested in becoming a replet your Programme Leader know. It is a worthwhile role and helpswith your CV building.

If the disruption owing to the building work in Cambridge is severeand you have concerns then please inform us by either speakingdirectly to one of us or, again, through the Comments, Complimentsand Concerns box adjacent to the Faculty Office.

We want you to enjoy your experience at Anglia Ruskin; we expectyou to be stimulated and challenged as you learn. We hope yourstudies with us are like an ‘intellectual gym’; we can guide yourtraining regime so that if you put in the effort you will get fit. Myfinal message to you is ‘Don’t sit on problems’. If you have personalor group concerns talk to someone straight away. Issues identifiedearly are much easier to deal with and we will always listen. Sospeak to your Personal Tutor or anyone from the list below.

Dr Jenny GilbertDeputy Dean

Cambridge Chelmsford

Student Experience Coordinator Alison Beaumont Hannah MyattStudent advisor Jeremy Vanner Lorna DureyProgramme Leader Dr Mahmoud Al-Kilani Graham WebsterDirector of Studies Jonathan Knowles Dr John WebbHead of Department Professor Stuart Wall Dr Sonal Minocha

Deputy Dean Dr Jenny Gilbert

Dean Professor Martin Reynolds

“We want you to enjoy your

experience at Anglia Ruskin; we

expect you to be stimulated and

challenged as you learn”.

Dr Jenny Gilbert

Knowledge

Transfer

Partnerships

Student Career

Opportunities

If you want to applyyour degree to a realjob straight away andgain a professionalqualification at thesame time, then aKnowledge TransferPartnership (KTP)through AshcroftInternational BusinessSchool (AIBS) is whatyou’re looking for.

A KTP is a three-way partnershipbetween you (the Graduate), a localsmall-medium enterprise (SME) andAIBS covering projects across a widerange of business disciplines andindustry sectors, and it is one of thelargest graduate recruitmentprogrammes across the UK. As a KTPassociate, you take a full ownership of amajor project gaining invaluablepractical hands-on experience byplaying a key role in managing andimplementing the strategic developmentof the company.

You will further enhance your careeropportunities and experience bydeveloping key management skills, suchas communication, team working andproject management, giving you acompetitive edge over other graduates inthe job marketplace. In other words, aKTP allows you to apply what you havelearnt through university in a businesssetting, but with continuous supportfrom an academic supervisor. Thisprovides you with an excellentopportunity to become a strategic playerin a company and fast track your careerby gaining valuable businessexperience.

Danica Smith

ARU Alumni: Graduated in 2008with First class degreein BA (Hons)Marketing

Role: Knowledge TransferProgramme Associateat Rose of ColchesterLtd

“The reason I chose Anglia RuskinUniversity to study my degree wasbecause of the Business School’sreputation for their collaborative workwith companies. I knew that theBusiness School had close relationshipswith local businesses and providedmore of a practical-based experience tomy degree,” says Danica Smith, aformer undergraduate AIBS student.With a passion for marketing and a realdrive to succeed in today’s highlychallenging economic environment, sheapplied to study for a marketing degreeand in 2008, after four years of hard

work, she successfully graduated with afirst-class BA Honours degree inMarketing.

“In the second year of my degree I spentthe first semester abroad in AngliaRuskin’s sister university based inMalaysia. This was an amazingexperience where I studied the exactsame modules as UK students butexperienced a new country and cultureat the same time.”

Although Danica found her studiesdemanding, she says her years at AIBSwere excellent, enabling her to gain avaried and wide range of marketing andgeneral business knowledge and skills.In her last year of study, while workingon her dissertation, she discovered theKnowledge Transfer Programme fundedby the East of England DevelopmentAgency (EEDA) through a lecturer andsaw this as an excellent opportunity tostart her career in marketing.

“The whole process happened veryquickly, all within a week really. Theproject had a clear structure, with pre-determined objectives that were setjointly by Philip Robinson, SeniorLecturer and Academic Supervisor, andMichael Rose, Managing Director atRose of Colchester Ltd. At first glance Iwas slightly nervous about thechallenging objectives but after my firstweek I knew we could achieve them.Throughout my degree we were taughtabout ‘business objectives’ and‘marketing strategies’, but theKnowledge Transfer Programme enabledme to put my knowledge into real lifepractice.”

“It was very calming to know that whilstthis was my first real, full timemarketing job I had the BusinessSchool’s full support behind me, bothfinancially and emotionally. I knew Icould lean on the extensive resources,knowledge and networks AIBS offers.With such an excellent structure andsupport offered with the project, I wasconfident about the challenges ahead ofme. I knew exactly each week what Ihad to deliver in order to complete theproject successfully.”

The three-way partnership worked sowell that the project achievedsignificantly more than was originally setout. According to the Managing Directorof Rose of Colchester, Michael Rose, theKnowledge Transfer Programme was a

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catalyst for culture change and itssuccess has led to the creation of a newMarketing Department: “Overall, theKnowledge Transfer Programme projecthas brought to the company a newstrategic marketing and businessdevelopment capability, that hasprovided the platform for new marketopportunities to be identified and apartnering approach to our sales agencynetwork that will underpin thesustainable growth of the business aswe go forward.”

Subsequently, due to the success of theproject, Danica was offered a full timeposition of Marketing and BusinessDevelopment Manager working with thesenior management of the company inensuring future growth and profitabilityof the business.

“I gained so much personally from theKnowledge Transfer Programme projectin terms of knowledge and skills that arevital for any marketing role in business”says Danica. “Whilst my degree gaveme a great insight into academicthinking, the project gave me a betterstrategic and tactical understanding ofmarketing activities, especially onlinemarketing activities such as SearchEngine Optimisation – an essentialaspect of marketing in the 21st century.Every marketing job in all industrysectors will include some aspect of e-marketing and thanks to the KnowledgeTransfer Programme, I have gained theskills required to meet the needs of ahighly competitive and ever-changingworld of business.”

“I would strongly recommend theKnowledge Transfer Programme to allgraduates who are seeking theopportunity to gain significant andvaluable business experience, whilstadding real value to a regional company.The three-way partnership works sowell, it truly is a win-win situation foreveryone involved.”

If you would like to find out more abouthow to get involved in the KnowledgeTransfer Partnership through AIBS,please contact:

Katerina NemcovaProject Manager of Business KnowledgeTransfer - Cambridge

T:0845 196 2591E: katerina.nemcova@anglia.ac.uk

Danica Smith

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Be a GRLI

Ambassador!

The Ashcroft International Business Schoolhas joined a pioneering network of 60business schools and companies from acrossthe world whose mission is to promote andsupport the development of a next generationof globally responsible leaders (www.grli.org).

The network, called the Global ResponsibleLeadership Initiative (GRLI), was started in2004 by the European Foundation ofManagement Development. They recognisedthe growing and urgent need to equip ouremerging leaders with the skills, knowledgeand passion to champion social andenvironmental responsibility in the corporateworld.

GRLI is also building a community ofresponsible young leaders who are studyingin or have newly graduated from the world’sbusiness schools as GRLI ambassadors. Theywill contribute todialogue and be theseedbed for internationalresearch on ResponsibleLeadership. They will beadvocates for the missionand objectives of GRLI.

A Website and Facebook community aroundresponsibility issues is being created for theAmbassadors and there will be events, virtualconferences and various ways to get involvedwith the GRLI Academic and Businessmembers.

GRLI Ambassadors will connect with existingorganizations such as Net Impact, UN YouthForum, AIESEC, and Bill Clinton’s GlobalInitiative.

Jonathan Smith, Senior Lecture at AIBS inCambridge, is aiming to get a GRLIAmbassadors group going at Anglia RuskinUniversity. “I am really excited about ourstudents being directly involved with us inthis fantastic initiative. Their thinking andenthusiasm will be the critical factor in thisinitiative making a real difference to thefuture of Management Education andManagement practice”. If you have anyquestions or would like to become a GRLIAmbassador then please contact LuckyHussein:

E: Lucky.hussein2@student.anglia.ac.ukT: 07702 470038

Don’t get

snookered...

Join the

winners!

The AshcroftInternational BusinessSchool firmly believesthat there is a balanceto be struck betweenwork and play andextends an invitationto all Anglia RuskinUniversity students tojoin in with a newand innovativelearning experience.

John McCullough has a long establishedinterest in the parallels between sportsand business performance and as aresult of close collaboration with thecurrent World Number 5 SnookerProfessional, Ali Carter Snooker aunique initiative is now being piloted ona collaborative and developmental basisfor the benefit of all Anglia Ruskinstudents.

We can offer you a number of personalbut flexible challenges that will, in aninformal and challenging but enjoyableway, help you to develop skills that canenhance your assessments both on andoff the green baize. We provideeverything you will need – a snookertable, a cue, a few snooker balls and astudent friendly atmosphere!

Sign up today and let us help you tochalk up future success.

John McCullough

E: john.mccullough@anglia.ac.ukT: 0845 196 6879

Ali with a group of MBA students who have been looking at decision-making andhaving a ball of a time!

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Lord Ashcroft

makes second

£5million gift to

create new

business school

in Cambridge

This follows a similar gift

to Anglia Ruskin

University, made in

2000, which was used

to build the award-

winning Michael A

Ashcroft Building at the

Rivermead campus,

Chelmsford. Today’s gift

means that Lord Ashcroft

has given well over £10

million to Anglia Ruskin

University.

The new donation will be used toconstruct the Ashcroft InternationalBusiness School in Cambridge, situatedin East Road, less than half a mile fromthe city centre. It will offer facilities toundergraduate, postgraduate and postexperience business students as well asbeing a base for international research.

Lord Ashcroft is one of Britain’s mostsuccessful entrepreneurs and a formeralumnus of Anglia Ruskin. Hiscommitment to education is substantialand of long-standing, having supportednumerous initiatives in many parts of

the world. Over the last ten years, hehas been working with Anglia Ruskin todevelop and implement the concept ofeducation aimed at entrepreneurs. Thisapproach has proved immenselysuccessful in Chelmsford, and the newbusiness school will extend thatapproach to Cambridge, offeringpractically-based business education.

Quote: Speaking about theannouncement, Anglia RuskinUniversity’s Vice Chancellor, ProfessorMichael Thorne, said:

“The focus of the Institute forInternational Management Practice’sunderlying philosophy will be on realworld management challenges and willbe the next step in Anglia RuskinUniversity’s continuing drive to establishits business school as a world leader inpractice-based teaching and research.The new facilities and the appointmentof a cadre of chairs in International

Management Practice will provide adramatically enhanced environment forteaching and research.”

Lord Ashcroft was particularlyimpressed by the real-world relevance ofthe new Institute which is aiming toprovide opportunities for students todevelop their business andentrepreneurial skills. Speaking aboutthe donation Lord Ashcroft said: “Myattachment and long-term commitmentto education is well-known. In thedepths of an economic downturn, Iwanted to make an investment in thefuture economic skills of this countryand beyond. The Ashcroft InternationalBusiness School will encourageenterprise and excellence. Our objectiveis to create and to inspire a newgeneration of entrepreneurs - youngmen and women with the skills andenergy to create jobs and wealth for the21st Century.”

Lord Ashcroft, KCMG

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Winner Takes

All!

As part of Freshers’Week, our full-timeundergraduatestudents were invitedto take part in abusiness gameentitled ‘Winner TakesAll in BusinessManagement’.

In collaboration with the CharteredManagement Institute and the AshcroftInternational Business School, the eventran over two days and was set in thecontext of the chocolate industry. Eachteam of around ten students had tomanage a chocolate company with theirperformances scored on the range andquality of the business decisions theymade, in addition to their ability todevelop a viable and sustainablebusiness.

During the event the teams workedferociously on their plans – somestudents even worked through part oftheir lunch break which definitelyshowed their commitment to the cause!The event also gave the students awonderful opportunity to get to knoweach other in an informal setting andenabled them to enhance theirmanagement and team working skills.

The teams were marked on the businesschoices they had made and to concludethe event, were required to present theirideas to a panel of judges consisting ofJannette Guelleford, Stephen Hook,Debbie Thomas and Mark Armstrongfrom the CMI and Professor RogerJeynes from the Ashcroft InternationalBusiness School. There were prizes forthe team with the overall highest scoreand for the students judged as the ‘MostEffective Team’.

The presentations gave the students thechance to explain to the panel how theircompanies planned to market andfinance their chocolate product and toshow how they had considered theirethical and environmentalresponsibilities.

The judging panel were suitablyimpressed by the teams’ knowledge andcreativity and saw a variety of ideas fornew chocolate products, including anenergy ‘Olympic’ chocolate bar, achocolate product called ‘Bitz’ to a dietchocolate bar called ‘Chocolite’.Stephen Hook from the CMI said hewas overwhelmed by how well thestudents had performed in the game,and judging by what he had seen, feltsure that the students would havesuccessful business careers in front ofthem.

Linda Hollingworth, Chair of the CMI,Chelmsford and Mid Essex Branch,presented the prizes to the winningteams, along with Professor RogerJeynes, was so encouraged by the workshe had seen that she joked she wouldbe patenting the students’ chocolateproduct ideas herself!

This event was a new venture for AIBSwhich we hope will shape the way werun Freshers’ Week in years to come.We are grateful to have members fromthe CMI work with us to put on thegame and look forward to working withthem on similar projects in the future.

Hannah Myatt Departmental StudentExperience Co-ordinator, ChelmsfordE: Hannah.myatt@anglia.ac.ukT: 6851

There were prizes for the team with the overall highest score and forthe students judged as the ‘Most Effective Team’

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‘It was a great chance to get to know people and share the experience with people’

Left to right; Courtney Hicks (BSc(Hons) Accounting and Finance), Nicky Buckby (BA(Hons) Tourism Management),Chelsie Morgan (BA(Hons) Tourism Management, Solomon King (BA(Hons) Business Management)

“It was a very challenging game but was reallyenjoyable. It helped us to work with differentpeople and make new friends.”

Left to right; Danielle Kenton (HND BusinessManagement) and Gabriella Johnson(BA(Hons) Marketing)

“I really enjoyed the game; I thought it was agreat way to network with my fellow students.”

Lennon Gumbe (BA(Hons) Business

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Student

consultancy

team working

with Cambridge

business

Enterprising studentsAndrea Doerr andChristiane Woessner(MA InternationalBusiness MAIBprogramme)and Anglia Ruskingraduate JonitaMacyte have beenworking with RobertJones on an EEDA-funded consultancyproject.

On Thursday 25th June, in the LearningZone at Anglia Ruskin University,Andrew Hatcher (founder of TheWorking Knowledge Group) made anonline presentation of his MAPPdecision-making product. Our

consultancy team canvassed the viewsof Dr Mike Ashmead (Managing Directorof Cellbond Ltd , Mykon Systems , ZingBikes) and Encocam ) and John Pedretti(Portfolio manager, SkanskaInfrastructure Development – and AngliaRuskin MBA graduate).

EEDA East of England DevelopmentAgency is the driving force behindsustainable economic development inthe East of England. EEDA’s InnovationVouchers are designed to helpbusinesses in the East of Englandpurchase academic expertise from theregion’s universities to supportinnovation and business improvement.

Robert completed a KTP project withMike Ashmead at Cellbond Ltd in 2005.

Robert Jones, Programme LeaderExecutive MBA (Cambridge), Lecturer inEntrepreneurship and InnovationT: 0845 196 2549E: robert.jones@anglia.ac.uk

Left to right:- Robert Jones, Andrea Doerr, Mike Ashmead, John Pedretti, Christiane Woessner and Jonita Macyte. + AndrewHatcher, The Working Knowledge Group, Cambridge

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AIBS team

participates at

FLUX National

Final 2009

FLUX is a key annualinter-universitycompetition aimed atbridging the gapbetween educationand the world ofwork. Student teamsspend 36 hourssolving a businesschallenge provided tothem at the event.

The event enables them to focus ontheir employability skills, meetrecruiters, improve interview skills, meetnew people and have a great time.Business experts from some of the UK’smost dynamic companies (e.g. Coca-Cola, Experian, J.P. Morgan and KPMG)judge the teams in Apprentice-stylemeetings and Dragons Den-stylepitches.

Our AIBS team set off for Plymouth onSunday 5th April. The team wascomprised of students from six differentcountries; Pakistan, Estonia, Poland,Bulgaria, France and the UK. As themajority of our team had not previouslytravelled further than London, the trainjourney enabled them to take in sightssuch as the White Horse at Westbury,and the beautiful Devon coastline.

On Monday, after a briefing, thirtyUniversity teams began working on theirbusiness scenarios. Our team workedexcellently together, even choosing toreturn early from dinner and continueworking into the early hours!

On Tuesday morning, they were invitedto attend business related workshopsand vie for the attention of experts towhom they could informally pitch theirideas. Later they attended scheduledinterviews with expert panels, thestudents used these sessions to askspecific questions on aspects of their

business e.g. raising finance. Oncethese sessions were completed, theteam had to present their finished planto an audience of twelve experts, andseven participating university teams.They then faced a public grilling fromthe experts! It was an intense learningcurve and although our team didextremely well they unfortunately werenot chosen as the overall winner,congratulations to Ulster University, afantastic competitor, who went on towin the £3,000 prize!

Our team all agreed that the experiencewas extremely beneficial, developingboth personal and academic skills andopening their minds to enterprise andentrepreneurship. We look forward totaking a new team to Plymouth in2010!

Robert JonesT: 0845 196 2549E: Robert.jones@anglia.ac.uk

Allison Beaumont - Team ChampionT: 0845 196 084E: allison.beaumont@anglia.ac.uk

Alana Hanwell - Team ChampionT: 0845 196 2591E: Alana.hanwell@anglia.ac.ukTeam Champion

HOTS Business

Plan

Competition

won by AIBS

International

Business team

In May AIBS wasinvited to take part inthe HOTS (HotelOperations Tactics andStrategy) competitionby our internationalpartner UniversityZuyd, Maastricht.

The first round of the competition tookplace simultaneously in Cambridge,University Zuyd Maastricht, ZaragozaHotel Management School, CologneUniversity of Applied Sciences andNizhny Novgorod State University. AIBSwas represented in the Cambridge heatby four International Business Students:Paula Petraityte, Jost Braeckelmann,Valentin Raspe and ChristophGrunewald.

The HOTS challenge is based aroundteams assuming the management of afailing hotel and the first round task wasto write a business plan with the aim ofreviving the hotel’s fortunes. In

Cambridge students visited the BestWestern Gonville Hotel where DeputyGeneral Manager Christopher Ogstonoffered valuable advice and guidance onkey operational, financial and marketingaspects of hotel management. MrOgston judged the team comprisingPaula and Jost to have written the mostrealistic plan.

The semi-finals and final took place inMaastricht during June 8th – 12th.Competitors from all internationalcentres were very generously treated toa programme of sight seeing tours bythe hosts, University Zuyd, as theyworked on the next stages of thecompetition.

For the semi-finals studentsimplemented the recommendations intheir business plans playing againstother teams in the HOTs simulation. Thetop 5 teams in the simulation phase(based on owners equity after 3 years)made it through to the final. AIBS wasrepresented by Paula and Jost in thefinal who finished third in thesimulation stage.

Friday brought the final in theimpressive setting of the Amrath GrandHotel De L’Empereur, Maastricht. Theteams now had to defend therecommendations made in theirbusiness plan and reflect on theirperformance in the simulation in a 30minute presentation to a panel ofjudges comprising academics fromUniversity Zuyd and Mr Marcello Pauw,General Manager of the HotelL’Empereur.

Following the presentations there was anervous wait as the panel consideredtheir verdict. After 20 minutes Mr Pauw,chairman of the panel, announced thatunanimously Paula and Jost fromCambridge were the winners. Mr Pauw’sverdict was that the winning plan wasbased on an accurate diagnosis of keyproblem areas, was meticulouslyplanned, was the most realistic giventhe resources available and that hewould have no hesitation in investing inthe winning team.

The project was funded by UniversityZuyd with all planning and co-ordination under the leadership of GabyGijsberts assisted by a team of studenthelpers.

Tim FroggettT: 0845 196 2212E: tim.froggett@anglia.ac.uk

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Tim Froggett

Paula and Jost

Limkokwing –

Anglia Ruskin

University

students steal

the show at the

Sarawak Regatta

Limkokwing Borneo’sinternational studentsshowed their truemettle for their teamspirit and sheerdetermination bywinning the highlycoveted Fairplay Cupat the recent SarawakRegatta, which waspresented to them bythe Governor ofSarawak, Tun DatukPatinggi Abang HajiMuhammedSalahuddin during theclosing ceremony.

The team of 20 rowers, aptly named the‘Limkokwing Warriors’, as indicated notonly by their vibrant costumes and thenative African war-paint designsdecorated on their faces, but also bytheir dynamic chants and cheers,consisted mainly of internationalstudents from around the world, addingcolour to the event as has never beenseen before in the history of the regatta.

As part of an effort by LimkokwingBorneo to showcase their diversity to theworld, the team organized aperformance that infused both local andAfrican elements for the ‘Lintas Hormat’– the “starting parade”, display. Theenergetic dances and rhythmicdrumming of the djembe and kompangplayed by Limkokwing’s very ownBorneo Beats team added to highlycharged atmosphere. The flair andpassion for music combined with thecommon goal of sharing and spreadingthe understanding that music is global,was part of the display. In addition,adding even more colour to the event,fellow Sarawakian student clad in thetraditional Orang Ulu costume wavedthe Limkokwing flag at the head of theboat. The mesmerizing show put on bythe Limkokwing students was indeed aspectacle that delighted the crowd.

Despite the fact that most of the teammembers had never rowed a boat beforeand that they would be competing with

participants who were consideredprofessionals to the sport, they still wentahead and braved the 1.8km race at theregatta, competing in the InternationalCategory, after only two days of training.

The Sarawak Regatta, which is apremier event with distinct historicaland cultural significance, was first heldin 1871. It was an event created by thethen famous ruler of Sarawak, RajaCharles Brooke to bring together warringtribes to “fight” it out on the Baram river.

Limkokwing builds a strong foundationfor their students, giving them a well-rounded education inclusive of sportsand extra curricular activities in additionto day-to-day classroom learning,ensuring that the students are equippedwith the necessary skills needed to growand become established in their chosenindustries and to contribute to society.

Limkokwing Borneo is a premierinstitute of higher learning and itsquality education is assured atinternational standards. As a digitalinnovation hub, Limkokwing Borneooffers Anglia Ruskin’s 3 + 0 Degreesand Diploma courses in Design,Architecture, Communications, Businessand Information Technology.Limkokwing’s other campuses arelocated in Cyberjaya, Botswana, Africa,London, United Kingdom, as well asCambodia and Bali.

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Career Fair for

KBU graduates

KBU International College (KBU),Malaysia, a long established partner ofAshcroft International Business School(AIBS), recently organised a career fairthat created a buzz not only among itsgraduating students but also all theother jobseekers at large.

The fair, which was known as ‘Tradeand Career Fair 2009’ (TCF 2009), washeld in collaboration withYourPartTime.com (a leading onlineservice provider for part-timeopportunities in Malaysia).

More than 800 jobs were on offer at thefair. Among them were jobs and careersin the fields of business, management,design, hospitality, computing, etc. andalso those from YourPartTime.comportal.

The Honorable Malaysian Minister ofHousing and Local Government, Dato’Seri Kong Cho Ha, graced the launchingof the event. Also present wereChairman of KBU Board of Governors,Tan Sri Dato’ (Dr) Teo Soo Cheng, KBUChief Executive, Prof Dato’ (Dr) TeoChiang Liang and principal, Mr SeeHoon Peow.

Twenty-five direct employers/exhibitorsparticipated in TCF 2009, and thisincluded companies / organizations ofhigh repute and stature such asPrudential, Great Eastern, One WorldHotel, Valdo Brandt International, RHBBank, etc.

Students and visitors were alsodelighted that TCF 2009 was slightlydifferent from the other career fairs asthe exhibitors also tapped into part-timeopportunities and internship placementfor them.

KBU’s principal, See Hoon Peow, saysthat TCF 2009 was just one of themany ongoing efforts by the College toassist its graduating students to gainemployment upon their graduation.Even though currently there were

already multinationals who liaiseddirectly with the College to conductdirect interviews with KBU’s graduatingstudents, TCF 2009 was still a goodplatform for the graduating students toexplore other opportunities speciallymade available to them.

“I sincerely believe that not only ourgraduating students have benefited fromTCF 2009 but all our other students aswell since part-time and internshipopportunities were also made availableat the event”, says See.

In conjunction with the fair, theorganizers also hosted a programmeknown as ‘CEO Live @ Studio V’. In the‘live’ programme held at Studio V(owned and managed by Malaysia’sleading newspaper, The Star), top CEOs/ executives were invited to speak onvariety of issues relating to their areas ofexpertise. Some of the distinguishedMalaysian personalities invited to speakin the programme included Datuk Vinod

Sekhar (CEO of the Petra Group), DatukBadlisham Ghazali (CEO of MultimediaDevelopment Corporation), DatukPaduka Marina Tun Mahathir (FormerPresident of Malaysian Aids Council), toname a few.

KBU’s School of Business, Hospitalityand Tourism Management, whocurrently conducts AIBS programmes inbusiness management, marketing andaccounting & finance, had the privilegeto send its students to participate in the‘live’ programme as the students wereextended with a special invitation toparticipate in the sessions related totheir area.

The students had a rewardingexperience participating in the ‘live’sessions which included discussion ontopics such as incubation and financingin ICT, business process outsourcing(BPO) and business transformationoutsourcing (BTO).

‘TCF 2009’ – Chairman of KBU’s Board of Governors, Tan Sri Teo Soo Cheng(fourth from left) and the Minister of Housing and Local Government, Malaysia(third from left) at the launching ceremony. Looking on are KBU Chief Executive,Prof Dato’ (Dr) Teo Chiang Liang (on far left) and KBU principal, See Hoon Peow(on far right).

In conjunction with ‘TCF 2009’, Business students of KBU were invited toparticipate in a ‘live’ programme at Studio V, Malaysia.

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AIBS supports

Trinidad and

Tobago’s Vision

2020

The work of Ashcroft InternationalBusiness School in Trinidad and Tobagocontinues to go from strength tostrength. In collaboration with a localpartner - the School of Accounting andManagement (SAM) - we offer fiveundergraduate degrees in business toaround 1500 students. Earlier this yearwe also launched our MBA and alreadyhave about 100 students studying forthis award. Our next step is to launchour DBA which we plan to begin veryshortly.

Our collaboration in Trinidad and Tobagostarted in 2001 and to dateapproximately 2000 students have

graduated with Anglia Ruskin awards.Our students hold down positions in allsectors of the economy as well as acrossa number of different countries in thewider region.

Trinidad and Tobago has a population ofabout 1.3 million and is a relativelywealthy Caribbean state. The majorsectors of the economy include oil, gas,transport, retail and financial services.Its ambition – detailed in its ‘Vision2020’ - is to achieve first world status

by the year 2020. AIBS will continue towork with the School of Accounting andManagement to develop levels ofeducation and training in this small butvery ambitious country.

For further information contact either:

Lynn SnapeE: lynn.snape@anglia.ac.uk or

Dr Trevor BoltonE: Trevor.bolton@anglia.ac.uk

MBA Overseas

Residential

Study Visit in

Berlin, June

2009

Cambridge-based Executive MBAstudents joined their counterparts fromAnglia Ruskin Chelmsford campus andfrom the Berlin School of Economicsand Law in a study visit to Berlin, 10th– 14th June 2009.

The programme in Berlin included a cityorientation tour, visits to the VivantesClinic at Neukoelln and to the factory of

Bombardier Transportation gmbh atHennigsdorf, seminars on internationalbusiness by Professor Terry Mughan,and financial aspects of the Europeanbudget and the Euro.

A key part of the programme was thecollaboration between Cambridge andBerlin students in their presentations forthe Entrepreneurship and Innovationmodule. Chelmsford students played thepart of potential investors in theDragon’s Den format. UK and Germanstudents had first met in April inCambridge for the E&I module, thenmaintained contact via e-mail, videoconference and Skype. The resultingbusiness presentations were impressive.

Students enjoyed exploring this splendidcity using the U-Bahn and S-Bahn, inspite of the very rainy weather. Severalstudents are returning to Berlin later thisyear, taking friends and families onholiday rather than business.

Robert Jones, Programme LeaderExecutive MBA (Cambridge), Lecturer inEntrepreneurship and InnovationT: 0845 196 2549E: Robert.jones@anglia.ac.uk

Graham Webster, Lynn Snape and Dr Trevor Bolton at SAM in Trinidad

Inside the Reichstag dome

MBA Entrepreneurship and InnovationSyndicate presentation

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Berlin and

Cambridge MBA

joint module

From Thursday 23rd April to

Saturday 25th April 2009,

students on the Berlin

School of Economics and

Law (Hochschule für

Wirtschaft und recht Berlin)

MBA General Management

Dual Award and on the

Executive MBA in

Cambridge came together in

Cambridge to participate in

the Entrepreneurship and

Innovation module.

This was the first joint delivery toCambridge and Berlin MBA cohorts andthe experience was a positive one for allconcerned. The two groups of studentscollaborated very well and workedhappily in mixed syndicate groupsthroughout the three days. The modulewas very interactive and the syndicatetasks on Thursday were performed alfresco in glorious spring sunshine on thelawn.

MBA company visit to MarshallBusiness AviationFriday morning was occupied with acompany visit to Marshall BusinessAviation (MBA) at Cambridge airport. AtMarshall Business Aviation, we werehosted by Cheryl Edwards (CustomerServices Manager), Allan McGreal(Head of Marshall Business Aviation)and Allan Rosser (Business Manager,and pilot).

Allan McGreal’s presentation on thethemes of entrepreneurship and

innovation in the Marshall BusinessAviation business unit was absolutelyspot-on. It is invaluable to linkeverything that we do here at theBusiness School with the realities ofbusiness. It is reassuring for me and forour students that we are clearlyspeaking the same language, certainlyin the area of entrepreneurship andinnovation.

Allan Rosser’s guided tour of theimpressive business jet facility wasinformative, entertaining and full ofenergy - and our students got up closeto business jets and experienced theexcellent Executive Travel Centrefacilities. They now aspire to be “highnet worth” executives and to frequentthe MBA travel centre.

The students constantly referred back totheir visit experience throughout theremainder of the weekend module, ableto contextualise the subject materials onintrapreneurship, innovation, theCambridge cluster, family enterprise etc.The Berlin students could see clearparallels with their own GermanMittelstand enterprises and were highlyimpressed with the Marshall businessmodel.

Both cohorts of MBA students -Cambridge and Berlin schools - werevery impressed with all that they heardand saw at Marshall Business Aviation.Transport to and from the Marshallcompany visit was less executive instyle – we used the Newmarket RoadPark & Ride bus.

Joint student projectsOn Friday afternoon it was back toserious work again with break-outsessions in the sun on the lawn. Fridayevening we had a pleasant dinnertogether in Brown’s Restaurant nextdoor to the Judge Institute, the businessschool of the “other university”.Saturday was hard work and good fun,with yet more syndicate work on jointprojects.

We covered a lot of ground in the threedays, with lively and energetic dialogue.The students formed into Cambridge–Berlin teams for their projects, mainlyexamining new business start-up plansbut one group will interview real-lifeentrepreneurs. Student feedback fromthe module evaluation forms wasoverwhelmingly positive, with manycommenting positively on theopportunities for inter-campus groupwork.

In June, our Executive MBA studentsfrom Cambridge and Chelmsford willspend four days in Berlin on theirOverseas Residential with our partnercollege. Our students will take part inactivities and company visits with theirBerlin counterparts. The relationshipwith the Berlin school has been verysuccessful over the last twelve years andis growing stronger.

Robert Jones, Programme LeaderExecutive MBA (Cambridge), moduletutor Entrepreneurship and InnovationmoduleE: robert.jones@anglia.ac.uk

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Cambridge Tech

DEMO Night

Cambridge is known for top science andengineering talent and research. Moreexciting is that many of theseinnovations and ideas are leaving thelab and are being commercialised bystart-ups created in Cambridge.

The first Cambridge Technology DEMONight, on Thursday, June 18th 2009hosted by the Ashcroft InternationalBusiness School at Anglia RuskinUniversity featured 7 minute demosfrom three great Cambridge dot.comstart-ups:

True Knowledge – answer (search)engine based on ontological principles;http://www.trueknowledge.com/

Timetric / Inkling Software – statisticalsoftware for time-series charts, andMini-Seedcamp London winner;http://timetric.com/

Broadersheet – Hyper PersonalisedNewspaperhttp://www.broadersheet.com/

In the audience were 75 entrepreneurs,technologists, researchers and students.Professor Stuart Wall, Head of DeptAIBS Cambridge, welcomed attendeesto this inaugural meeting which waschaired by its instigator Jed

Christiansen. Dr Chris Mitchell (anAnglia Ruskin PhD graduate) of AudioAnalytic helped to organise the event(http://www.audioanalytic.com/).

Robert Jones, Programme LeaderExecutive MBA (Cambridge), Lecturer inEntrepreneurship and InnovationT: 0845 196 2549E: robert.jones@anglia.ac.uk

Cambridge Tech DEMO event in Coslett 124 at the Cambridge Campus

Research Taster

Placement

Scheme

Melanie Barratt, currently

undertaking a Masters in

International Governance /

Grad ICSA, was appointed

into the Research Taster

Placement Scheme. This is

a university funded scheme,

designed to encourage

students to consider taking a

research degree after the

completion of their taught

award.

Melanie was delighted to havebeen given this opportunity which hasinvolved carrying out an analysis ofbusiness and governmental activity inTrinidad and Tobago in particular and

the wider Caribbean area moregenerally. This is in support of AshcroftInternational Business School’s growingportfolio of work in the Caribbeanregion.

The investigation has focussed on thechanging and dynamic nature ofbusiness within Trinidad and Tobagoand the wider region, as well as thenational and intra-national institutionsthat support the growth anddevelopment agendas of Government.Trinidad and Tobago has a clearlyarticulated growth agenda as laid out inits ‘Vision 2020’ statement, namely, toachieve first world status by the year2020. The work of AIBS is contributingto this mission and this research willhelp shape our future activities.

The research should contribute toBusiness School developments withinthe region, especially research and alsoassist in Melanie’s Masters’ dissertationresearch project.

Melanie Barratt

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Conference

of the

British

Association

of SpiritualityThe First International Conferenceof the British Association ofSpirituality (BASS) is being held inWindsor, UK on the 4-6 May2010 Students are invited tosubmit proposals for papers by the31 October 2009. For furtherdetails and information on abstractsubmission email:jonathan.smith@anglia.ac.uk.

The 10th

International

Federation of

Scholarly

Associations of

Management

Together with John Rayment,Jonathan is also organising aglobal leadership steam for The10th International Federation ofScholarly Associations ofManagement (IFSAM) WorldCongress is being held on the 8-10 July 2010 at the ConservatorieNational des Arts et Métiers, Paris,France. The Conference theme is:Justice and Sustainability in theGlobal Economy.

John RaymentE: john.rayment@anglia.ac.uk

Indigenous

Management

Practices

Conference,

India

Our Faculty was wellrepresented at thisconference held atAnnamalai University,India in July 2009with papers beingpresented by bothacademics and alsoone of our

Masters students whoresides in India,Varsha Chowdhury.

The goal of the forum held in July 2009was to provide a lively and informalvenue where a variety of questions andideas regarding IndigenousManagement Practices could bepresented and discussed by academicsand other professionals in aninterdisciplinary and creativeenvironment. The focus was on thecurrent management theories within thecontext of practical problems.

Jonathan Smith, the UK Co-ordinator forthe event, won the Doctoral colloquiumcompetition and was awarded Rs15,000 prize money – About £250.Jonathan will undertake the role againfor next year’s conference onSustainable Business.

Jonathan SmithE: jonathan.smith@anglia.ac.uk

The Conference in action

Jonathan Smith receivinghis prize money

Superb Finnish!

Dr Greg O’Shea hassuccessfullycompleted hisDoctorate of BusinessAdministration (DBA)under the direction ofDr Bronwen Rees.Greg is a former specialist in corporatefinance, M&A and internationalbusiness development with more than10 years experience in the UK, US andBelgium.

Greg has a law degree, an MBA and isa qualified accountant and auditor.Greg has been working as a facilitatorand trainer since 1997. HisOrganisational Developmentspecialisations are in strategy andchange facilitation, in complexity,creativity and change leadership.

Greg has taught on the MBA course atAnglia Ruskin University in Cambridgein the UK and recently completed hisdoctorate on the effect of Chaordism inorganisations.

He lives in Finland where he ismanaging partner in the internationalconsulting company ‘Grape People’.Grape are located in Stockholm, SanFrancisco, Moscow, Prague, Berlin andHelsinki.

His clients are mainly leading Finnishorganisations working with emergingand new technologies. He has workedwith organisations seeking to promoteemergent change and self organisationin the US, Japan, Scandinavia andthroughout the rest of Europe.

His key beliefs are freedom, trueempowerment and deep democracy inorganisations and new forms oforganisational working.

Greg also holds a professional coachinglicence in football and would one daylike to turn his brown belt in karate intoa black one.

European Centre

for Business

Research

Methods,

Valetta, Malta

21-22 June

2009

“In November 2008,my supervisor DrAndy Armitageencouraged me todraft a joint paper onthe concept ofMultipurposeMultidimensionalConceptualFrameworks for theJune 2009 EighthEuropean Conferenceon ResearchMethodologies forBusiness andManagement Studiesat the University ofMalta”.

It was my first experience of writing forpublication but with a great deal ofsupport, the abstract was accepted. Theconference organisers invited me andmy co-author to write a full paperaccepted without amendments on thefirst submission for double blindreading.

For a PhD student this represented avaluable learning experience in usingacademic language and in thestructuring of a coherent abstract andpaper understandable to the academiccommunity. It was an important part ofthe learning curve and a stepping-stonefor eventual drafting and submission ofa thesis.

Seventy delegates many of whom werefrom outside Europe attended theconference; they were from Australia,Brazil, Canada, Malaysia, and SouthAfrica. During the conference,academics some of whom had authoredqualitative research books and a fewPhD students presented forty-fivepapers, of which fourteen papers will beselected for European publication.

When it came to my turn to present thepaper to such a learned audience, I wasnervous, not wanting to tarnish thereputation of Anglia Ruskin Universityand the Ashcroft International BusinessSchool. I need not have worried thesupport I received from Dr AndyArmitage and Dr Diane Keeble-Ramsaywho encouraged me to keep focussedand to remember that I knew moreabout the subject content of my paperthan did the audience. Having theopportunity to respond to questions anddefend my paper was a further learningopportunity on my journey towards theViva. Feedback from other delegateswas positive, Gillian Green of theUniversity of Bolton extended aninvitation to give the same presentationto her students, and a further day spentwith Ron Cuschieri of the University ofMalta discussing the approach in moredetail. Since returning home there hasbeen further contact with ShawrenSingh of the University of South Africaand Jocene Vallack of CentralQueensland University, Australia.

I am grateful for the opportunity thathas spurred me to write further papers. Ihope that other PhD students will havesimilar opportunities.

John Murphy – PhD Student

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19

From Ability to

Employability -

the role of

placements

At the Ashcroft International

Business School of Anglia

Ruskin University we aim to

produce students who are

ready for the world of work

and can add value from the

day they start.

One way we achieve this is to work withlocal and national employers to provideplacements for students on many of ourprogrammes. Students have been onplacements at organisations such asEtesius, Marsh Plc, IBM, SELEX Galileo,BAE Systems, and The Houses ofParliament.

In the current economic climateplacements are a win-win situation forthe employer and the student.Experience is one of the best teachersand placements offer students thatexperience. Employers gain acommitted and motivated member ofstaff for a fixed term and will be able totap in to their theoretical expertise andknowledge. Students get to provethemselves during placements and if theplacement is particularly successfulemployers want them back when theygraduate.

Emma Haines, Graduate Manager ofSELEX Galileo identifies some of thebenefits to students: “It allows valuableexperience to be gained to support theircareers while working with cutting-edgetechnology, enhancing their skills anddeveloping future prospects.Placements also provide networkingopportunities with key business contactsas well as apprentices and graduates;building relationships and providing anactive social life”.

Placements can take place inorganisations of all sizes and from allsectors. If you are interested in takingup a placement opportunity contact:

Jill Baldwin, Senior Lecturer, WorkBased LearningT: 0845 196 4361E: jill.baldwin@anglia.ac.uk

.

The ‘Benefit’ of

Placements

“As a second year Human

Resource Management

student, I felt it was

important to gain some

experience before

graduating the following

summer. Recognising that

this would be a challenge

during the current economic

climate, I began networking

and sent my CV to various

different companies in the

local area”.

I was then offered two weeks workexperience in the HR department atBenefit Cosmetics. I was informed that Iwould be heavily involved in theirrecruitment process, an excitingprospect for me. It was evident before Ihad even started that the workexperience was perfectly suited to me.

During my time at Benefit, I worked asan HR Recruitment Assistant. The roleprimarily involved screening applicationforms and conducting telephoneinterviews. I found I was given a lot ofresponsibility to make the decisionsmyself and I found the job positivelychallenging. The initially planned twoweeks, was extended to five and thisprovided me with a greater depth ofexperience and also allowed me to buildup a relationship there for the future.

Lyndsay Richards, HR Support atBenefit Cosmetics, said, “Throughouther time with us Hannah was a hardworking and conscientious member ofthe team. Her help was muchappreciated and we wish her all the bestin her future career.”

The experience gained whilst working atBenefit should significantly benefit my

future employment prospects. I havebeen able to enhance my CV and havegained many transferable skills. Havinga degree is a great thing but a degreealone will not get you the job.Employers are looking at howemployable the graduates are as well astheir academic achievements.

Finding a placement or work experiencecan be a challenge but the experiencegained is invaluable. Students who gainexperience in their field of study, or thecareer they wish to pursue have agreater insight into what their futurecareer will involve, whilst learning newskills and building on the existing ones;as well applying the academicknowledge to the workplace.

Hannah McKeown

Hannah McKeown

Global language

success

During his BA (Hons)European Businessdegree here at AngliaRuskin, 26 year oldTom Bool discovered ataste for aninternational lifestyle,and a passion forlanguages.

Spending close to two years in Francebetween university in Clermont Ferrandand various work placements and jobs,Tom developed his French to near nativefluency and immediately set aboutimproving his Spanish too. Today, Tomis the Managing Director of IntegroLanguages, a full service multi-languagetranslation and interpretation agency.

Based in Norwich, Integro facilitateinternational communication fororganisations around the world, througha huge network of professionaltranslators spanning the entire globe.“As a student of international trade, ithas always been clear to me thatcommunication is of paramountimportance for a growing proportion ofbusinesses. The UK service industry isbrimming with marketers, consultantsand web promoters who can help in thedomestic market…English to English asit were. However, for many people lifeis a little more complex anddemanding”, says Tom. Integro offerunique and versatile personal service intwo particular growth sectors - foreignproperty acquisition and domestic socialhousing - but regularly help smallerbusinesses to source suppliers andcustomers based overseas too.

Tom’s ambition knows no bounds, andhe is currently planning to dramaticallyincrease his customer service team.The company is in the early stages ofpreparing for the launch of IntegroTraductions, a French based service HQ,as well as expanding to offer Brailletranscription, British sign language andeven more language translation options(currently >100).

Tom is a worthy winner of the 2009Alumni Success in Business Award wecongratulate Tom on all hisachievements.

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Shortcut to

Success

Keen to move into arts

management but without

possessing the relevant skills

to qualify for such a position

led Elaine Midgley to enrol

on the MA Arts Management

programme at the

Cambridge campus.

Elaine, who graduates in November, hassecured a job as Arts DevelopmentOfficer for the Arts and Entertainmentsdivision of Cambridge City Councilrunning amongst other things the FolkFestival, Parker’s Piece and Jesus Greenoutdoor events, e.g. comedy, music andsummer events for children.

The course has provided Elaine with thenecessary skills to enable her to take onsignificantly larger amounts ofresponsibility with greater confidence aswell as counteracting the need for yearsof experience, often on a voluntarybasis, before she could apply for such aposition.

For further details on the MA ArtsManagement course contact PathwayLeader Pam Pfrommer:

E: pamela.pfrommer@anglia.ac.ukElaine Midgley

Tom Bool

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Anglia Ruskin

Employer

Mentoring

Scheme

Handelsbankenprovides a positiveexperience to MenteeThe Employer Mentoring Scheme is runby the Careers and Employability Teamas part of their employability work withstudents. It matches second yearstudents with employees from localorganisations. The employees act as‘Business Mentors’ on a one-to-one basisproviding a career related voice ofexperience for the student. The Schemeis designed to assist students inimproving their employability bydeveloping workplace skills and businessawareness.

Here is an account of the experience ofGary Higgs, a Business Studies student,going into his 3rd year and his mentorDave Wilson, Senior Corporate AccountManager, Handelsbanken, Chelmsford:We are delighted to say that we both feelthat we achieved a considerable amount

during the mentoring period and in broadterms, covered off all the areas which wedecided were important and relevant.Why did this happen?Our approach to the Scheme was withcompletely open minds, a blank sheet ofpaper and the agreement that we werejust two guys both working as a team toachieve the same end, with no issuesover age, experience etc. No topic wasoff the agenda (although it wasappreciated that the guidelines of theScheme needed to be kept firmly inmind). We therefore agreed that if atopic was raised which either one of usconsidered did not fit the Scheme, thenwe would put this aside and move on.

We also agreed to look further thanindividual comfort zones and try to breaknew ground or bring additional focus toareas which had perhaps only beentouched upon. Gary felt that he wantedto concentrate on life skills and theseincluded the following:

• Where do I see my strengthsand weaknesses?

• Identification of opportunitiesand threats

• Constructing an effective c.v.• Job application forms and

covering letters• Preparing for and attending a

job interview• Body language• Presentation skills

A substantial amount of ground wascovered and we ensured that the nextmeeting was put into the diary at the end

of the current meeting to ensure dateswere mutually acceptable (we kept tothese in practice). In addition, we agreedthe topic for the next meeting so wecould both do some prior preparation.The whole experience was far fromdaunting and indeed our meetingsseemed to go extremely quickly due tothe level of mutual participation. Thiswas helped by the fact that the advisorsare keen to pair mentees with mentorswho are specialists in the areas of workin which the mentee is interested, alsomaking the experience even moreenjoyable!

The highlight was the presentation whichGary gave to Dave and his workcolleagues (or was it the round of golf wehad as our final meeting!) which put intopractice areas which we had discussed.

The Mentoring Scheme is excellent andstudents should seriously consider takingpart as we both believe that there is ahuge amount to be gained for yourfuture. Approach it openly and not onlywill life skills be honed but you will enjoythe experience.

For further information on the EmployerMentoring Scheme visit:www.anglia.ac.uk/mentoringOr contact:

Jan Haldane on the Chelmsford campusE: jan.haldane@anglia.ac.uk

Katie Morris for the Cambridge campusE: katie.morris@anglia.ac.uk

Mentor Dave Wilson, Senior Corporate Account Manager, Handelsbanken, Chelmsford with mentee Gary Higgs, BusinessStudies student, going into 3rd year

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Getting a Job!

After concentrating onfinishing my degree itis easy to forget aboutwhat the next step is– getting a job!

I wasn’t having too much luck doing iton my own so decided to give theEmployment Bureau at Anglia Ruskin atry. After filling out the form and havinga chat with the friendly team they thenlooked for suitable jobs according to thecriteria I set. Within days theirRecruitment Consultant got back to mewith an appointment for interview for ajob in an investment company,Cofunds.

Communication was great from theEmployment Bureau detailing what wasgoing to happen throughout therecruitment process. I went to therecruitment session well-prepared andwas offered the job the next day! To mypleasant surprise the whole processhappened quickly which only adds toyour confidence of your own ability.

I have been with Cofunds nearly 4months now, the work is interesting andI enjoy working with my team moreevery day. I would stronglyrecommend to all students graduatingin the near future to register with theEmployment Bureau as soon aspossible.

Quote:

The Employment Bureau is aspecialist campus basedrecruitment agency servingstudents, alumni and the localcommunity. They can becontacted at:

employment-bureau@anglia.ac.uk

Twitter with

AIBS_Library

a new way for

you to keep in

touch!

Your Businesslibrarians invite you togo to Twitter.com andfollow our new Twitterservice atAIBS_Library.

Set up an RSS feed from here to receiveup-to-the-minute business news andlibrary information. Use the site to sharebusiness information tips withcolleagues.

Any queries – please contact

Diana Garfield(Diana.garfield@anglia.ac.uk) – FacultyLiaison Librarian.

newnewnewnewnewnewnewnewnewnewnewnewnewnewPlease visit our new careers website tosee our range services and advicecovering: jobs, email guidance, careersnews, CVs and applications, interviews,psychometric testing, volunteering andwork experience, graduate destinationsand our Employer Mentoring Scheme.

www.anglia.ac.uk/careers

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Before you

Forget

To all new studentsjoining Anglia RuskinUniversity (ARU),

welcome and welcome back to all ourreturning students, it’s good to see youagain after your summer break. Weknow how busy you all are and howsometimes the little things cause youmajor headaches. To help make yourlives a little easier Jeremy Vanner andmyself, Lorna Durey, have provided afew memory joggers below:

We hope everyone settles in quickly,however if you need any confidentialhelp, advice or information pleasecontact your Student Adviser. Newstudents will have met either Jeremy ormyself, or received information aboutus, depending on whether you areCampus based or not. Information onthe Student Advisers is available in yourStudent Handbook or on the StudentAdviser webpagehttp://www.anglia.ac.uk/ruskin/en/home/central/stuadv.html

New students please remember toregister and returning students to re-register for this Academic Year. Newstudents please ensure you have yourStudent ID Card, if you haven’t already,log onto e-vision and register with theLibrary. Any difficulties registering,please contact the i-Centre/Office at theCampus you are studying or contactyour Course Administrator.

All students studying ARU modulesplease check e-vision to ensure you areregistered on all your compulsory andoption modules; and you are registeredto take the correct number of credits foryour course. If there are any mistakes,and you have completed a ModulePlanning Form, please contact yourStudent Adviser in the first instance. To

confirm what your compulsory modulesare, or the number of credits you shouldbe registered for, you can find theinformation on the Module Catalogueonhttp://web.anglia.ac.uk/modulecatalogue/ or from your Pathway Handbook.You can also find details about themodules you are studying, from theModule Definition Forms (MDFs).

Undertaking assessments at universityfor the first time, particularly if you arereturning to education after a number ofyears, can be quite daunting. Well helpis at hand, for those students who canattend there are Study Skills Workshopsrun every semester, details can befound on the Library websitehttp://libweb.anglia.ac.uk/ under StudySkills or leaflets held by the StudentAdvisers. If you are not able to attendthe Workshops you haven’t beenforgotten with online Study SkillsGuides available onhttp://www.anglia.ac.uk/ruskin/en/home/central/studentsupport/services/learning.html .

The Workshops and online StudyGuides are available for all students touse, so it doesn’t matter if you have juststarted your course or in your FinalYear. You can also find help on how toreference your assignments, informationis available on the Library Websiteunderhttp://libweb.anglia.ac.uk/referencing/referencing.htm Workshops are also run,details are available under the StudySkills section on the Library Website.

Before you know it teaching will nearlybe at an end and assessments will fastapproaching. Students studying ARUmodules, after teaching week 6 pleaseremember to check Results View on e-vision, under details, where you will seethe submission date for assignmentsand week commencing date for exams.To confirm exact dates, times and roomnumbers for exams, you should checkthe Exam Timetable which you canaccess through e-vision. Studentsstudying non-Anglia Ruskin moduleswill receive confirmation of assessmentdates, your Course Administrator willconfirm how this information will becommunicated to you.

Once you have submitted assignmentsfor marking, please remember to collectthem, assignments are required to bemarked in 20 working days, Major

Projects 30 working days, and madeavailable for collection. Campus basedstudents will receive an email, throughtheir student accounts, advising whenand where they can be collected. Non-Campus based students will be advisedeither by their Course Administrator ortheir Organisations University contact.However, please ensure you receiveyour assignments as there will bevaluable feedback for you.

AIBS Awards Boards are held threetimes a year to review students’progress, confirm results and awards.For ARU modules students are requiredto check Results View on e-vision, notethe outcome of any Mitigation claim,check that assessments undertakenhave a mark, and information aboutreplacement modules or other AwardsBoard decision. If you are unsure aboutany results or instructions or require anyhelp or advice, please contact yourStudent Adviser.

If you are required to do a re-sit, eachmodule has a first attempt and one re-sit, please check under assessmentoutstanding details, on Results View one-vision, to confirm assessment dates.For exams the exam timetable shouldbe checked for the exact date, time andvenue. The timetable will be publishedno later than two weeks before theexam period starts. Please checkstudent email accounts for anyassignment re-sit instructions, these willbe emailed after the Awards Boards.

General information on assessmentperiods is available in your StudentHandbook or onhttp://web.anglia.ac.uk/anet/students/dates0910.phtml

Whatever your question or if there isany particular subject you wishedexplained in any future issues, pleasedon’t hesitate to contact either Jeremyor myself on:

Lorna DureyStudent Adviser – ChelmsfordMAB 316E: lorna.durey@anglia.ac.ukT: 0845 196 6887

Jeremy VannerStudent Adviser - CambridgeCOS 407E: jeremy.vanner@anglia.ac.ukT: 0845 196 2742

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Journal of

Finance and

Management in

Public Services

Now Online!

We are pleased toannounce that ourpublication, theJournal of Financeand Management inPublic Services hasrecently published itslatest edition.

Volume 8 No 1, electronically on theCIPFA web site at:http://www.cipfa.org.uk/thejournal/

Volume 8 contains a range of interestingand challenging papers that will of valueto the academics and practitioners:

• Public Services and PerformanceManagement: The High PerformanceWorking InventoryAndrew Armitage and Diane Keeble-Allen

• Police and Performance Related Pay:An Exploratory Study of RewardingIndividual Performance in the PoliceServiceRichard Tonge, Hugh Coombs andMickyla Batcheler

• Successful Tax Reform: TheExperience of Value Added Tax in theUnited Kingdom and Goods andServices Tax in New ZealandSimon James and Clinton Alley

• Procedural Justice Principles and TaxCompliance in Ireland: A PreliminaryExploration in the Context ofReminder LettersElaine Doyle, Kieran Gallery andMary Coyle

In addition to the current edition theweb site has copies of previousvolumes, details of sponsors and adviceon how to submit papers for review andpublication.

Moving to an electronic format allows usto reach wider academic andpractitioner markets within the UK andaround the world, such expansionreflects the growing global importance ofpublic services management andembraces CIPFA’s internationaldevelopment strategy.

We will shortly publish summaries ofour 2009 annual conference that washeld on 23rd June 2009 in Manchesterand publish plans for our 2010 event.

We are confident you will find ourpublished research papers bothinformative and stimulating and wewelcome your future submission forboth conference presentation andpotential publication in future editions ofthe the Journal of Finance andManagement in Public Services.

Prof Hugh CoombsManaging EditorUniversity of GlamorganE: hcoombs@glam.ac.uk

John WebbCo-ordinating EditorAnglia Ruskin UniversityE: john.webb@anglia.ac.uk

We are looking for people to get involved in the newsletter. We wouldwelcome your feedback on this issue and letters/comments for futurepublication. You may even wish to test your wings as a writer. If so,please contact:

Christine DurrantT: 0845 196 6882E: christine.durrant@anglia.ac.uk