News from EBS
- Edinburgh Business School's Craig Robinson shares his expert view on the next move for Plexus.
- Brunch in Dubai.
- Edinburgh Business School's Graduation lunch.
- The Edinburgh Business School Prize.
- Professor Keith Lumsden visits Toronto and New York.
- New course: Managing Personal Competencies.
- Celebration of achievement event, Trinidad.
- Nick Farr-Jones launches Australasian EBS Scholarship in Sydney.
- EBS MBA listed as the world’s most popular MBA.
- EBS holds its biggest ever event for alumni and students across the Caribbean.
- Reception at British Embassy in Kiev.
- Heriot-Watt University Graduation – Dubai, November 2009.
- Heriot-Watt University Graduation – Edinburgh, November 2009.
- EBSArabworld exhibits at JETE in Jordan.
- EBS hosts event in Johannesburg.
- EBS launches in Russian language.
- EBS to exhibit at the Jordan Education and Training Exhibition.
- EBS Australia enrols its 100th new student.
- Professor Alex Scott visits Zambia.
- EBS Business Director visits Ghana.
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Edinburgh Business School's Craig Robinson shares his expert view on the next move for Plexus
A recent Daily Telegraph article regarding a potential solution for improvement of well-head technology in the oil and gas industry by Aberdeen-based company Plexus Holdings drew an expert view and commentary from Edinburgh Business School's Craig Robinson - a teaching fellow at the School with a keen interest in the industry.
In his commentary, Craig suggested the solution presented by Plexus Holdings could provide the company with an excellent opportunity to gain some traction within the industry providing some key factors were addressed and a partner found to help develop and licence the technology used in the solution.
You can read Craig's commentary here - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/businessclub/7912500/Experts-views-on-Plexus-Holdings.html
(Published on 29 July 2010)
Brunch in Dubai
(Left: Shirin Jarrar (left) and Kristy Cassidy (right) with an EBS student. Right: Shirin Jarrar (Centre) with EBS students.
Edinburgh Business School, Dubai Campus hosted a brunch at Le Meridien Mina Seyahi on Saturday 19th June 2010 for alumni, students and prospective students.
Shirin Jarrar, MBA Programme Director in Dubai welcomed over 80 guests to the brunch where prospective students had a chance to ask Shirin and Student Services Advisor, Kristy Cassidy questions about the programme. Later, students, alumni and prospective students had a chance to mingle and chat whilst enjoying an informal buffet brunch.
(Published on 02 July 2010)
Edinburgh Business School's Graduation Lunch
(Left: Guests at Edinburgh Business School Graduation lunch party. Right: MBA Graduate Jeffrey Hansen-Carlson
Heriot-Watt University and Edinburgh Business School (EBS) were delighted to welcome 220 of the 450 eligible graduands to the graduation ceremony in Edinburgh on Tuesday 22nd June 2010.
On the most beautiful summer's day, the James Watt centre main auditorium was filled to capacity with the family and friends of the graduating students from all EBS programmes. As each graduand crossed the stage to have their award conferred by Professor Steve Chapman, Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Heriot-Watt University, there was much applause and cheering.
The ceremony was followed by an informal lunch at EBS where Professor Keith Lumsden, Director of EBS spoke. Jeffrey Hansen-Carlson, a MBA graduate then shared his personal thoughts about the EBS MBA programme and proposed a toast to the EBS staff.
(Published on 01 July 2010)
The Edinburgh Business School Prize
At Edinburgh Business School's graduation ceremony on Tuesday 22nd June 2010, Professor Keith Lumsden presented The Edinburgh Business School Prize to Richard Bancel (MSc for the Oil and Gas Industry) and Scott Richards (MBA with Distinction).
The prize is awarded to students who achieve the distinction of graduating with a degree having obtained an average mark greater than eighty per cent.
The above picture shows EBS Graduate Scott Richards showing off The Edinburgh Business School Prize
(Published on 30 June 2010)
Professor Keith Lumsden visits Toronto and New York
(The top-right image shows (from left to right) Craig Knowles, Ruth Reid Lumsden, Keith Lumsden, Rochelle Knowles and Robert Gillespie, the Chairman of Toronto Watt Club)
On a recent trip to North America, Professor Keith Lumsden, Director of Edinburgh Business School (EBS) was guest of honour at functions held in Toronto and New York for graduates and students.
Professor Lumsden outlined the development of the EBS MBA and the additional programmes now offered by the School. He spoke of how the EBS courses were centered on the philosophy that students learn not by hearing or seeing, but by doing. He also spoke of his empirical research that demonstrated how, regardless of resources available to students, ability was the main determinant of success.
These two elements led to the launch of the EBS distance learning MBA in 1989/90. By 1994 EBS was the largest MBA programme provider in Europe and by 1996 the largest in the United States of America.
Professor Lumsden also stressed the value of our student and graduate bodies, emphasising the fact that these groups were both avid supporters of EBS and its strongest ambassadors. EBS relies on its ambassadors for the word of mouth recommendations that our students and alumni make to their friends and colleagues.
The reception events also allowed everyone in attendance to mingle and network over drinks and canapés and we look forward to the next event.
(Published on 30 June 2010)
New course added: Managing Personal Competencies
EBS is pleased to announce the release of Managing Personal Competencies, authored by Martin Dowling (St Andrews University) and Dr Iain S. Henderson (EBS).
This course completes the suite of electives for the MSc in Human Resource Management and is also available as an elective for the MBA.
One hundred and twenty students are enrolled on the MSc in HRM, 22 of whom intend to continue to the DBA. EBS is now in a position to seek professional accreditation of the MSc by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD).
For a description of the course content, click here. A course taster, comprising the table of contents and the entire first module, is also available.
(Published on 2 June 2010)
Celebration of achievement event, Trinidad
EBS’s long-standing partner, the School of Business and Computer Science, held a celebration of achievement ceremony in Trinidad on Saturday 17 April. Fifty-five EBS graduands were formally congratulated and their academic achievement recognised.
With Heriot-Watt University’s Professor John Simmons unable to attend because of the volcanic ash cloud in Europe, students were formally presented to Steve Cram, Chancellor of Sunderland University and former UK Olympic medallist.
The picture shows EBS graduand Sterling Adams, Steve Cram and SBCS Executive Director, Dr Robin Maraj, at the ceremony.
(Published on 26 May 2010)
Nick Farr-Jones launches Australasian EBS Scholarship in Sydney
The EBS Australia team welcomed more than 60 guests as they promoted Edinburgh Business School’s Australasian Scholarship Scheme in Sydney.
The scholarship, which has been developed in consultation with Nick Farr-Jones (former captain of Australia's rugby union side), offers applicants the opportunity to gain valuable postgraduate-level education. It has been designed specifically to allow disadvantaged individuals the opportunity to equip themselves with the knowledge and skills necessary to improve their lives and the lives of others around them.
The evening, held at the award-winning restaurant William Blue Dining, commenced with the attendees enjoying a chance to network with other guests over some light refreshments. This was followed by talks from three guest speakers.
Malcolm Kinns, General Manager of EBS Australia, welcomed guests and spoke of the importance of lifelong learning, the history of EBS and the growth and strength of the EBS MBA programme.
Nick Farr-Jones delivered an effective and entertaining speech reinforcing the importance of the scholarship scheme and its long-term aims to promote needs-based education as part of an ongoing commitment to the development of people skills within the Australasian region.
To conclude, Simon Keating, Australasian EBS Scholarship winner of 2009, told guests his own story as a nurse practitioner in the public health system. He provided a first-hand account of ‘a day in the life of an EBS student’, offering some encouraging words of wisdom for those looking to start their own educational journey through EBS.
Professor Gavin Kennedy, author and academic of the Negotiation, Influence and Strategic Negotiation electives in the EBS MBA programme, was also in attendance. Professor Kennedy’s books on negotiation are best-sellers that are widely read by practising managers.
The evening was a huge success. The scholarship scheme is open to nationals of the Pacific Islands, Australia and New Zealand, and applications close on 1 May 2010.
(Published on 9 April 2010)
EBS MBA listed as the world’s most popular online MBA
In the annual review of the top 40 online MBA providers published as a special feature in the Financial Times newspaper on 15 March 2010, the Edinburgh Business School MBA programme is listed as No. 1 in the world.
Click here to see the full listing.
The FT have run this special feature listing every year since 2003 and Edinburgh Business School has consistently come in the top two places due to the increase year on year of its active student MBA numbers since 2004.
(Published on 26 March 2010)
EBS holds its biggest ever event for alumni and students across the Caribbean
Edinburgh Business School (EBS) has hosted many events around the world since the conception of its Alumni Club in 2006, but never before has it received such an overwhelming response to an event as it did in Trinidad on 29 January 2010.
More than 500 guests were welcomed by the EBS team to the Hyatt Regency Trinidad to mark the inaugural alumni event of the Caribbean chapter. The EBS team that travelled to Trinidad for the event included Professor Keith Lumsden (Director), Sally MacLeod (Marketing Manager), Alick Kitchin (Business Director) and Morag Heggie (Director of Administration).
EBS was particularly honoured to welcome His Excellency, President of Trinidad and Tobago, Professor George Maxwell Richards and his wife, Her Excellency, First Lady of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, Dr Jean Ramjohn Richards.
His Excellency has been a long-time supporter of EBS and Heriot-Watt University and in 2007, during a visit to Edinburgh, he was presented with an Honorary Doctorate of the University. EBS’s long-standing and distinguished Approved Learning Partner in Trinidad, SBCS, was represented by Executive Director Dr Robin Maraj and several of his executive team and tutors.
In her speech, Sally MacLeod welcomed guests to the event and spoke of the importance of the EBS alumni network across the world and its strength in the Caribbean. Lyana St Bernard, EBS’s Caribbean alumni ambassador, spoke of the significance of having a Heriot-Watt degree in the Caribbean and her hopes of how graduates could now help shape Trinidad and Tobago’s business, social and political systems.
Professor Lumsden spoke of EBS’s 21-year history of delivering MBAs, both by distance learning and through a network of 25 Approved Learning Partners across the world – a truly global programme that now has 12,500 graduates and 8,500 active students.
The upper left image (left to right) shows Sally MacLeod, Vijaya Maraj, Robin Maraj, HE Professor George Maxwell Richards, HE Dr Jean Ramjohn Richards, Alick Kitchin, Keith Lumsden, Ruth Reid-Lumsden and Morag Heggie. The lower right image shows Lyana St Bernard, EBS Caribbean Alumni Ambassador, addressing the event. To download more photos, please click here.
(Published on 5 February 2010)
Reception at British Embassy in Kiev
(Left: Professor Keith Lumsden, H.E. Mr Leigh Turner speaking at the launch event. Right: Guests with Professor Lumsden, H.E Mr Leigh Turner and Alick Kitchin and the local EBS team.)
Professor Keith Lumsden, Director of Edinburgh Business School and Alick Kitchin, EBS Business Director, visited Kiev to welcome the first students onto the MBA programme in the Russian/Ukrainian languages.
A cocktail party at the Embassy Residence, hosted by His Excellency, Mr Leigh Turner, British Ambassador to the Ukraine, was the venue for a gathering of staff, tutors, students and other interested parties on the evening of 19th January 2009.
The manager of the MBA programme in Kiev, Dr Natalia Kryvda, said afterwards "This is a landmark development for business professionals in the Ukraine who want to study for a British MBA degree, which has global recognition, here in Kiev in the Ukrainian/Russian languages."
On the 20th January, Professor Lumsden, Alick Kitchin and the Ukrainian EBS team briefed local journalists and afterwards gave an open lecture on the MBA and its relevance to economic development in the Ukraine to a packed lecture room at the premises of EBS' local approved learning partner, the Institute of Political Science in Kiev.
See local news coverage, or watch a video of Professor Lumsden's lecture below.
(Published on 26 January 2010)
Heriot-Watt University Graduation – Dubai, November 2009
Heriot-Watt University held a graduation ceremony at the Jumeirah Beach Hotel in Dubai on 25 November 2009.
The Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University, Professor Steve Chapman, conferred the award of Master of Business Administration to five graduates of the Edinburgh Business School MBA programme.
(Graduates of the Edinburgh Business School MBA programme: Abdul Jabbar, Zhou Aixia and Ferhad Patel.)
(Published on 12 January 2010)
Heriot-Watt University Graduation – Edinburgh, November 2009
Heriot-Watt University held its main graduation ceremony for graduates of Edinburgh Business School programmes at the Edinburgh campus on Thursday 19 November 2009.
The Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University, Professor Steve Chapman, conferred the award of Master of Business Administration to over 100 graduates who attended the Edinburgh ceremony. Afterwards, EBS hosted its own lunch party for all EBS graduates, their families and friends.
(Professor Keith Lumsden, Director of EBS, addresses the EBS graduation lunch party.)
(Published on 12 January 2010)
EBSArabworld exhibits at JETE in Jordan
EBSArabworld, Edinburgh Business School’s partner for the Arab countries, participated in the Jordan Education and Training Exhibition (JETE) International University Fair held on November 5–7 2009 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Amman, Jordan.
EBSArabworld was represented by Mrs Marie-Betsy Sayegh Akl, CEO of EBSArabworld, Miss Nathalie Farah and Miss Hala Houkayem, student advisers for the English and Arabic programmes, respectively.
Over 7,000 people visited the JETE, including university students, university professors, cultural attachés and members of the diplomatic mission in Jordan from the embassies of the United States, Germany, France, Turkey, Switzerland and many more.
The Edinburgh Business School stand was a great success. Many potential students were interested in the MBA in Arabic and the MSc and DBA programmes, and particularly in on-campus study at Edinburgh Business School.
This was the first time that EBSArabworld had participated in an exhibition in Amman, and was a great opportunity to meet and interact with many Jordanians and raise the profile of Edinburgh Business School in Jordan.
(Published on 23 November 2009)
EBS hosts event in Johannesburg
Edinburgh Business School recently partnered with MBAconnect.net, a dynamic social network for the global MBA community, and The i5 Group, a top provider of technology solutions for businesses, to bring an exciting interactive event to students and alumni in Johannesburg.
Guest speaker Justin Cohen spoke about mastering the art of telling stories effectively and how to use stories to inspire action. In Justin’s words, “if you want to grow an organisational culture, share knowledge, sell a product or lead a team, you need to use the oldest and most powerful form of influence; you need to tell a story".
Justin's recently published book The Astonishing Power of Story illustrates why stories are the most powerful form of influence; how to use stories to lead, sell, persuade and teach; and the way to think, speak and act out better stories.
(Published on 29 October 2009)
EBS launches in Russian language
Following several years of development and investment, EBS directors Alick Kitchin and Morag Heggie recently visited the Ukraine to sign collaboration agreements with the Institute of Political Science, a highly respected educational and research institute in Kiev.
In early 2010, the Institute and EBS’s regional team will launch the MBA programme in the Russian language, with Ukrainian faculty delivering tuition. It is planned that all the MBA core courses will be available in Russian during 2010, and further launches are planned in other cities across Russian-speaking countries.
(Left: the signing ceremony at the Institute, with Alick Kitchin from EBS, Oded Lotan and Ilan Rahimi from the regional EBS team, Natalia Kryvda (MBA programme manager at the Institute of Polical Science) and Professor Oleg Rafalsky (Rector of the Insitute of Political Science). Right: the launch event, which was attended by over 100 guests.)
(Published on 26 October 2009)
EBS to exhibit at the Jordan Education and Training Exhibition
Edinburgh Business School’s partner in the Middle East, EBS Arab World (EBSAW), will be at 14th Jordan Education and Training Exhibition (JETE) in Amman, Jordan between 5 and 7 November 2009.
Marie-Betsy Sayegh Akl, Managing Director of EBSAW, and Nathalie Farah of EBSAW will be on hand to answer your questions about the EBS programmes. The MBA programme is available in both English and Arabic.
JETE is being held at the Zara Centre, Amman, Jordan. Please click here for details. For any further information, please contact ebsmba@ebsarabworld.com.
(Published on 16 October 2009)
EBS Australia enrols its 100th new student
EBS Australia was set up in 2007 following a decision by the NSW authorities to recognise Heriot-Watt as the first European university approved to offer degree courses under their regulations.
Since then, a dedicated team, led by Malcolm Kinns and Natalie Foxon, have been providing support to existing students and advice to those considering the programme from Australia and New Zealand.
EBS Australia recently enrolled its 100th new student. This milestone enrolment makes EBS the second largest online MBA provider in Australia.
(Published on 1 October 2009)
Professor Alex Scott visits Zambia
Edinburgh Business School hosted a number of events at the Southern Sun Hotel in Lusaka, Zambia in July.
Professor Alex Scott, Academic Director of EBS, spoke to prospective students about studying with EBS; he also discussed with students and alumni why effective management is so difficult and what we can do to make it easier.
Professor Scott then delivered an economics lecture, examining how to interpret real-life data using macroeconomic theories, including the current financial crisis. He also delivered a Strategic Planning lecture on identifying strategic problems.
The events were well attended with the attendees eager to interact. EBS has a long-standing partnership with ZICAB, their regional business representative, who have helped to grow the EBS programmes in Zambia.
EBS currently has 341 students studying programmes in Zambia and 107 graduates residing in Zambia who have successfully completed a degree programme through us.
(Published on 17 August 2009)
EBS Business Director visits Ghana
Alick Kitchin, Edinburgh Business School’s Business Director, was the guest speaker at two successful information sessions held in Ghana during July.
The sessions gave prospective students the opportunity to learn more about EBS and to listen to alumni share their study experiences. Noah Karley of New Enterprise Consultancy, the local representative in Ghana, and Melanie Sturmheit of EBS Southern Africa were also in attendance.
EBS currently has 25 students studying programmes in Ghana and 17 graduates residing in Ghana who have successfully completed a degree programme through us.
(Published on 17 August 2009)
