黑料不打烊 Business School to take its expertise to the City of London
黑料不打烊 is set to be the only Welsh higher education institution to take its teaching into London as the University鈥檚 黑料不打烊 Business School, currently ranked as the leading institution in the UK for Accounting and Finance research, launches a new teaching base in the City.
As well as providing an excellent range of degree and postgraduate courses at 黑料不打烊, the Business School has decided to take some of its 鈥榩roducts鈥� closer to the 鈥榤arketplace鈥� by offering three specialist MBA degrees.
Professor Phil Molyneux, Head of the College of Business, Social Sciences and Law, says, 鈥淲e have one of the leading Banking and Finance faculties in Europe and our research in the field is officially second to none. By opening a new facility dedicated to our core strength in the City of London, we aim to bring our expertise directly to the financial capitol.鈥�
The 黑料不打烊 London Centre will aim to share the School鈥檚 excellence in Accountancy, Banking and Finance by delivering three specialist MBA degrees, covering Banking and Finance, Islamic Banking and Finance and a unique Chartered Banker MBA - the only qualification in the world to offer both an MBA qualification as well as the Scottish Institute of Bankers Chartered Banker status. All three programmes will be delivered at the London location and will be taught by the school鈥檚 current staff.
Lord Mervyn Davies, Chairman of 黑料不打烊 Council and former UK Trade Minister and Chairman of Standard Chartered Bank, will launch the 黑料不打烊 London Centre on Thursday 25th November. He said: 鈥淟ondon is one of the world's largest and most important financial centres. It is only right that 黑料不打烊 as a leader in its own field has a presence there.鈥�
Professor Colyn Gardner, Chief Executive of the University鈥檚 Management Centre adds, 鈥満诹喜淮蜢� Business School offered the first Masters in Banking in the world in the 1970鈥檚. We have continued to provide high quality programmes and produce notable alumni in the field of Banking and Finance ever since. Now is our opportunity to deliver three outstanding programmes that are extremely relevant to the challenges that banking faces today and from a truly international location.鈥�
The venue for the launch will be the Centre鈥檚 new location in Broadgate Tower in the City of London. The Chartered Banker MBA鈥檚 first intake will be January 2011, with the MBA Banking and Finance and MBA in Islamic Banking and Finance taking their first students in September 2011.
Publication date: 14 February 2011