Business School
Advancing your career
Postgraduate Business Programmes
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Part-time Certificates, Diplomas and Master’s Degrees
Oxford Brookes University Business School
Studying part-time for a
Postgraduate Qualification
Flexible study opportunities leading to postgraduate qualifications
There are many good reasons for embarking on a further period of study. Expanding your knowledge and skills must be one of the surest ways of improving your personal prospects. Increasingly, employers are looking for that extra qualification and skills when appointing or promoting staff. Employees should be keen to maintain and enhance their level of knowledge and skills throughout their careers. Studying on a part-time basis often represents a cost efficient and practical way of gaining a qualification or additional skills. Continuing with employment enables the option of sponsorship from an employer, or if this is unavailable, the opportunity to finance studies from regular income. Part-time students benefit from the same high standard of teaching and learning as those opting for full-time programmes, and have access to the comprehensive facilities offered by Oxford Brookes University including 24 hour computing, lecture and seminar rooms and the library, as well as the University Virtual Library.
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Oxford Brookes University Business School
Business
Advancing your career
Professional Development Programme
4 6 8 10 11 12 13 14 16 18 19 What makes Oxford Brookes University so special? Oxford Brookes... the place to study Providing knowledge and expertise through experience Introduction from the Postgraduate Team Professional Development Programme Certificate in Management Diploma in Management Studies Diploma in Human Resource Management Master’s Programmes Master of Business Administration Distance Learning MBA
The Business School also offers a range of undergraduate and full-time postgraduate business programmes, including master’s and research degrees. International students (non UK/EU) should note that to obtain a visa to study in the UK, you must be enrolled on a full-time degree level course involving a minimum of 15 hours of organised daytime study per week. Our part-time programmes do not meet these visa requirements. Distance learning programmes are exempt.
Please refer to the notice in the University Postgraduate Prospectus which constitutes a term of any contract between you and the University. The University reserves the right to amend the range of courses, including modules on offer, without prior notification. Applications are subject to assessment by the admissions panel.
Oxford Brookes University Business School
What makes Oxford
The Business School provides a range of services to businesses in the UK and overseas in consultancy, training and research. We have strong links with blue chip organisations and with business and educational institutions around the world.
The University Oxford Brookes University has a strong tradition of innovation and excellence in teaching. It continues to do well in the league tables, while expanding its range of postgraduate programmes and benefiting from funding and support from research councils, the government, the EU, charitable trusts and industry. In 2005, Oxford Brookes University was named Best New University for the fifth year running by The Sunday Times. With consistently high ratings in the university guides published in the UK’s national press and the government’s teaching quality assessors awarding marks of excellence to all business subject areas reviewed, we are confident that you will receive some of the best teaching available. Initially with an excellent reputation for its pioneering undergraduate modular programme, Oxford Brookes University has extended its commitment to providing flexible and innovative courses for its postgraduate students. Programmes are designed to expand and develop knowledge and to be applicable in the real world. The interdisciplinary nature of many of the programmes enables students to explore and break down traditional boundaries between subjects. The Business School From the success achieved by our postgraduate students in their careers around the world, we are aware that the knowledge and skills they acquired from studying with us has led to
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enhanced job opportunities and to changes in career direction. Excellence in teaching and learning centred at the Business School In January 2005, the University was one of only sixteen institutions across the country to receive two multi-million pound awards to establish more than one Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL). Awards have been made in recognition of excellence in learning, teaching and assessment and are mainly centred at the Business School. We are a national Subject Centre in both Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism and Business, Management, Accountancy and Finance. We have an international reputation for innovation, high quality education and research and global relationships with overseas universities. Accreditation and monitoring In addition to the regular quality assessments of all UK Universities by UK Government agencies, the Business School and its programmes are accredited and/or monitored by organisations including the Association of Business Schools, the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) and the European Foundation for Management Development. These organisations are committed to the continuous improvement of business education and management development.
CIPD
Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
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Oxford Brookes University Business School
Brookes so special?
When the opportunity arises, our policy is to seek additional accreditation or professional recognition for individual programmes. Examples include the MBA, which is accredited by the Association of MBAs and the Diploma in Human Resource Management, which leads to Graduate Membership of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. Staff with commercial experience The majority of our academic staff have real-world business experience that benefits students through practical insight. We take an international approach to study and the practical nature of programmes is underpinned by rigorous academic content. Guest speakers from the public, private and not-for-profit sectors give students additional opportunities to learn from practising experts. Links with industry and commerce The Enterprise Centre at Oxford Brookes University Business School integrates leading edge academic research with a practice-based consultancy service. It takes a principal role in contract research, providing specialist business education programmes and consultancy for commercial clients locally, nationally and internationally. The Business School has recently opened its new Postgraduate Centre on the Wheatley Campus. Facilities include a stateof-the-art lecture theatre with individual network access from each seat and comprehensively equipped seminar rooms for discussion and workshop activities. The Enterprise Centre manages an Enterprise Fellows Programme, home to new business ‘germinators’ in a number of sectors with the emphasis on social enterprise. Fellows on the programme receive support from mentors and financial aid. MEPC Milton Park Oxford Brookes University Business School has developed a unique collaboration with a commercial business park. The main aim of the relationship is to help grow and sustain businesses operating on the park by providing mentoring and business support. Relationships overseas Students benefit greatly from our global approach to business education which, together with our research, underpins our teaching and sets a blueprint for innovative, student focused learning.
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Oxford Brookes....
As one of the most famous cities in the world, Oxford offers everything any student could want and more. It is a bustling and stunning cosmopolitan city with excellent shopping, restaurants, cafes, pubs and clubs.
Situated in the heart of rural England and home to 150,000 people, Oxford offers students a clean and safe environment less than an hour from London and International airports, for travel to the rest of Europe and the World. Oxford is a centre of education and is home to a growing hi-tech community. Many businesses are located in and around the city and there are a growing number of business parks including Milton Business Park at Abingdon, where companies benefit from the support of the Oxford Brookes University Business School Enterprise Centre and the School’s Brookes on the Park restaurant.
The Business School location Oxford Brookes University is spread over three campuses at Harcourt Hill, Headington and Wheatley. Postgraduate programmes are taught at Wheatley (see map on back cover). At Headington you will find the Department of Hospitality, Leisure and Tourism Management and the Brookes Restaurant. Wheatley has a wide range of sports facilities including six tennis courts, a basketball/ netball court, a football pitch and a cricket field. There are pubs and shops in the nearby village of Wheatley and a regular bus service to both London and Oxford. We have an excellent reputation with employers and students for the relevance of our teaching and learning for management development. Our Professional Development Programme offers flexibility of study and includes practical input from employers. We offer a unique opportunity to explore and develop the knowledge, understanding and skills you need to support your career progression and achieve an additional qualification.
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Oxford Brookes University Business School
the place to study
The Sports Centre (Headington Campus) Our Sports Centre, available to part-time students, offers something for everyone whether you want to use the fitness suite, heavy weights room or join one of the many University sports teams. Facilities include badminton courts, squash courts, basketball courts, hockey, football and rugby pitches and a climbing wall and tower. Career planning The Careers Centre provides advice on graduate jobs. Services available include help with career choice, workshops to develop skills such as writing CVs and interview techniques, access to online vacancy listings and a well-stocked careers information library. For more information on careers please visit www.brookes.ac.uk/student services/careers.
Alumni Oxford Brookes Alumni Association has a membership of more than 90,000 former students around the world. As a graduate of Oxford Brookes University Business School you will automatically receive free membership of the University and Business School Alumni Associations. The Business School supports its 17,000 alumni around the world with a range of services and offers a number of benefits. We plan to further build and strengthen our alumni network and to provide ‘added value’ benefits for our business alumni. If you are an ex-student who would like to get in touch with other alumni or if you wish to help and support new and existing students, please contact the Alumni Office on +44 (0) 1865 485891 or email Graduates of Oxford Brookes University Business School include Angus and Allan McCallum-Toppin, founders and owners of AMT Coffee Ltd. and Michael McGrath, the first disabled person to walk to both the North and South Poles. Our Alumni Association is normally able to put you in touch with a current or past student, who is or has recently been studying on the programme you are considering.
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Oxford Brookes University Business School
Providing knowledge and expertise
Our research builds the bridge between theory and practice.
Linking teaching with research At Oxford Brookes University we strongly believe that learning about research and consultancy is central to the quality of the student experience. Integrating teaching, research and consultancy is a key challenge faced by higher education in the 21st century in an increasingly knowledge and information-based society. We take this challenge seriously, believing that, as a graduate, not only will you need the skills to conduct research but more importantly, you will need the capacity and confidence to apply these skills in the real world.
Professor Mark Saunders Head of Research
In other words, linking teaching with research and consultancy is more than just knowledge creation, it is about the application of knowledge. Research at Oxford Brookes University Business School bridges the theory-practice gap. Research is directly focused into all our activities including teaching and consultancy. We work with external organisations to define problems and develop solutions, exploring real world issues. The close links our Enterprise Centre has built up with a local, national and international business client base complement the research that our experienced and well-published academic researchers contribute to the knowledge bank of society. In a variety of specialist fields, the Business School is leading investigations that further educational understanding and provide commercial competitive advantage through improved information collection, analysis and application. A key aim of all our postgraduate programmes is to provide you with the skills and confidence to meet the challenges of your future career, and our research tutors will be able to advise you on the requirements for studying for a research degree. A master’s degree can be of great value as a stepping stone to a higher degree, such as a PhD.
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At Oxford Brookes
University you are taught by authors of some of the best-selling textbooks. Books have been written by our staff on marketing, tourism, e-marketing, research methods, accounting and financial management, corporate governance, human resource management, tourism and international business economics.
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through experience
Business School Researchers undertake national and international academic research.
Our researchers have been extremely active in disseminating their findings. Since 2001, more than 250 articles have been published in refereed journals, numerous papers have been presented at conferences in the United Kingdom and overseas, and some bestselling textbooks have been written by our staff. We have also undertaken consultancy and research to produce reports designed to provide information and competitive advantage to commercial clients. Whether you come to us on a part-time certificate, diploma or master’s programme, you will experience the diversity, quality and research excellence which defines the culture within the Business School. You will be in the company of researchers, consultants and students who are all contributing to making Oxford Brookes University Business School one of Europe’s fastest growing internationally-focused business schools. The School maintains a rigorous and dynamic doctoral programme leading to the higher degrees of MPhil and PhD. Doctoral students join a supportive, friendly and multi-cultural research environment. They have access to dedicated research suites providing workspaces, computers and storage and a range of supporting activities such as seminars and an annual residential research methods programme. The Business School is pleased to consider proposals for doctoral research from students wishing to pursue full-time study in any of the School’s research areas. As a doctoral student you have the opportunity to participate in and complement the research work of the Business School. Possible areas of study include: Accounting Governance and Accountability Economics and Strategic Human Resource Management Organisational Behaviour Marketing and Operations Pedagogy Hospitality, Leisure and Tourism Management Entrepreneurship Small and Medium sized Enterprises
NEW PROGRAMME
MRes Research Methods for Business
(Full-time or part-time)
The programme combines practical and theoretical approaches to the designing and execution of research. The programme also prepares prospective doctoral students with the research knowledge needed for doctoral study. Entry requirements Upper second class UK honours degree or equivalent overseas degree from a recognised institution or equivalent professional or other qualification, including master’s degrees. Further information: mnksaunders@brookes.ac.uk
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Oxford Brookes University Business School
An introduction
from the postgraduate team
At Oxford Brookes University Business School we have helped new managers as well as experienced professionals, from all walks of life, take a huge leap along the path to real career success.
Key aim The key aim of our Professional Development Programme is to provide you with the skills and confidence to meet the challenges of your role within your organisation. The modular structure of these programmes allows you to join and leave at intervals appropriate to your career development needs.The programmes are supported by reflective
Dr Alan Blackburn Assistant Dean Postgraduate Programmes
activities, encouraging a lifelong approach to learning and personal development. Teaching and learning
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Whichever course
During the certificate and diploma stages of your programme, the teaching team use a range of teaching and learning strategies, including case studies, video material, interactive seminars, presentations and guest speakers. The master’s level final year is built around a series of one-day workshops that are designed to support you in the preparation of your dissertation. This diversity provides the dynamic environment for all the participants to network and share experiences. Quality first Oxford Brookes University has received the maximum award from the Higher Education Funding Council for England to become a Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL). This award recognises excellence in learning, teaching and assessment practice. Attendance Years 1 and 2 Attendance consists of up to one afternoon and evening per week (normally Tuesdays for the CM and Thursdays for the DMS and DHRM). Master’s level During the final year of study you will attend a series of one-day workshops that are designed to support them in undertaking a 20,000-word dissertation founded on a major piece of practice based independent research. Dissertations are normally designed not only to encourage your personal development and managerial expertise but also to deliver value to an organisation.
you choose within the Professional Development Programme, you will have a unique opportunity to develop and explore the skills of the practitioner within a challenging academic framework. Individual programmes develop knowledge and understanding and fine tune your judgement and personal management skills. Students are drawn from a wide range of public and private sector organisations.
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Oxford Brookes University Business School
Management Development
A staged programme of management education and development. Successful completion of the three-year programme leads to a master’s degree.
The programme provides intermediate exit points at the end of each academic year, affording you the opportunity to progress to the next level or leave with either a Certificate, a Diploma in Management or Human Resource Management, or a Master’s Degree in Management, Management of Innovation and Change, or Human Resource Management. Your route to a master’s degree in three years
CM Certificate in Management
The Professional Development Programme facilitates your progression from Certificate in Management through to the diploma stage and on to a specialist master’s degree.
DMS Diploma in Management Studies
DHRM Diploma in Human Resource Management
MA Master’s in Management
MA Master’s in Management of Innovation and Change
MA Master’s in Human Resource Management
MBA Master of Business Administration
Executive, Distance Learning and Full-time programmes
Each level of the programme involves a strong, work-related focus, and the assessment strategy requires you to apply course-based learning to work-based contexts by undertaking a series of work-related assignments enabling you to build and share experience.
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Postgraduate Certificate in Management (CM)
Qualifications to accelerate your career. Year 1 - Certificate level
The certificate year of the Professional Development Programme is aimed at aspiring and The CM provides a recognised postgraduate management qualification in its own right. Successful completion enables you to move to a higher level of qualification for career or personal development. practising managers.
Your year in focus...
Start Semester 1
End Semester 1
Developing Personal Effectiveness
Managing Service Quality
Start Semester 2
Managing People and Organisations
Strategic Management in Context
End Semester 2
This Certificate in Management addresses two main issues; equipping you to re-engage with the demands of studying and providing a sound academic foundation that will enable you to exercise informed judgements as to your future trajectory of management development. Students study four modules over two semesters: Developing Personal Effectiveness Focuses on enabling you to take responsibility for your own learning and development. The module provides you with the skills and insights necessary to think both critically and analytically and thus succeed both professionally and academically. Managing Service Quality Provides the knowledge and skills to plan, design, deliver and monitor activities necessary to meet a required service level. Managing People and Organisations Addresses contemporary issues of organisational behaviour including the underpinning skills To apply: Email: pgenquiries-bus@brookes.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0) 1865 485992 Fax: +44 (0) 1865 485765 Postgraduate Administrator (CM) Oxford Brookes University Business School Wheatley Campus, Wheatley Oxford, OX33 1HX, UK
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and knowledge required for effective people management at department and team level through effective leadership. Strategic Management in Context The module focuses on how organisations analyse the internal and external competitive environments and how they determine and implement the choices available to them. This is considered from a national and international perspective. Entry requirements Year 1 Certificate in Management • Applicants will normally be managers or administrators with three years’ work experience or graduates with at least one year of work experience, aspiring to an administrative or professional managerial position.
Oxford Brookes University Business School
Postgraduate Diploma in Management Studies (DMS)
Enabling you to build towards a master’s degree and enhanced career prospects. Year 2 - Diploma level
The first year of the DMS programme consists of the Certificate in Management (CM) programme. The Diploma extends the length and breadth of issues covered at certificate level. The focus is on developing personal effectiveness. The programme actively involves mentors and learning logs to encourage transfer of skills to the workplace and is particularly valuable to people aspiring to middle management roles. Your year in focus...
Start Semester 1
The Diploma in Management Studies (DMS) is a nationally recognised postgraduate management qualification.
Financial Management
End Semester 1
Strategic Information Management Managing Organisations Strategic Marketing Management Undertaking work-based research projects
Managing People
Start Semester 2
End Semester 2
Students study six modules over two semesters: Managing People Builds on the earlier certificate module and develops interpersonal and people management skills that support the enhancement of organisational performance. Financial Management Provides skills in understanding and applying financial and management accounting techniques. Strategic Marketing Management Focuses on innovative market research and planning processes and techniques. Entry requirements Strategic Information Management Facilitates the critical evaluation and improvement of organisational information systems, using modelling techniques. Managing Organisations Develops understanding of planning and the execution of processes from a strategic perspective. Undertaking work-based research projects Introduces you to the principles of good research methods. These include skills in sourcing information and in data collection and analysis. The module is designed to enable you to undertake a major assignment that will normally be work-based, the successful completion of which, combined with success in the other modules, will result in the award of a Diploma in Management Studies. To apply: Email: pgenquiries-bus@brookes.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0) 1865 485992 Fax: +44 (0) 1865 485765 Postgraduate Administrator (DMS) Oxford Brookes University Business School Wheatley Campus, Wheatley Oxford, OX33 1HX, UK
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Year 2 Diploma in Management Studies • A Certificate in Management acceptable to the University.
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Postgraduate Diploma in Human Resource Management (DHRM)
Leading to Graduate Membership of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. Year 2 - Diploma level
The programme is aimed at aspiring or practising human resource professionals. Some students joining the three-year Professional Development Programme plan to exit after the second year with this fully recognised diploma. Before making a final decision, programme members are counselled by an experienced tutor who is able to assess the student’s motivation, current performance and future potential to succeed in completing the master’s level third year. Students study six modules over two semesters: People Management and Development Entry requirements Year 2 Diploma in Human Resource Management • A Certificate in Management approved by the CIPD.
(Please note this cannot be the CIPD Certificate in Training Practice or Certificate in Personnel Practice - all students must have completed the Leadership and Management field of study).
End Semester 2 Start Semester 2 End Semester 1
The first year of the DHRM programme consists of the Certificate in Management (CM) programme. Diploma level is a pivotal stage in your development. Experience has shown that some individuals, when setting out on the certificate and diploma programmes, significantly underestimate both their ability and their development potential. Your year in focus...
Start Semester 1
Generalist Employee Relations People Management and Development
Generalist People Resourcing
Generalist Learning and Development
Generalist Employee Reward
Applied Research in Organisational Contexts
Provides the foundations on which the four generalist modules are built. This is a spine designed to integrate the four generalist modules and results in a strong strategic focus. Generalist learning and development Develops people through the integration of approaches to learning and development. Generalist Employee Relations The module examines how employee commitment can be secured and aligned to organisational goals and objectives. Generalist People Resourcing Explores the generic competences required of the HR professional charged with ensuring the effective resourcing and deployment of people. Generalist Employee Reward
• Direct entry into this diploma is possible for applicants with a degree approved by the CIPD.
To apply: Email: pgenquiries-bus@brookes.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0) 1865 485992 Fax: +44 (0) 1865 485765 Postgraduate Administrator (DHRM) Oxford Brookes University Business School Wheatley Campus, Wheatley Oxford, OX33 1HX, UK
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Evaluates the strategies, policies, structures and processes used to develop and maintain reward systems. Applied Research in Organisational Contexts Introduces you to the principles of good research methods. These include skills in sourcing information and in data collection and analysis. The module is designed to enable you to undertake a major assignment that will normally be work-based, which will form the basis for the management report that will result in the award of the Diploma in Human Resource Management. Alternatively, it provides a foundation for a detailed dissertation proposal and the initiation of a critical literature review that will form the basis of your MA research programme.
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The Professional Development Programme ...leads to opportunities for professional qualifications and master’s degrees
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Master’s Programmes
Qualifications that develop expert knowledge in a chosen specialist area. Year 3 - Master’s level
Master’s level study represents the final stage of the Professional Development Programme. Programmes are designed for students successfully completing a postgraduate diploma who wish to gain maximum advantage for personal or career development from a University master’s qualification. These MAs will help you realise your full potential as a senior manager in an organisation or perhaps enable you to establish or further a career in consultancy.
MA Management
The MA in Management is designed primarily for those students who have undertaken a recognised qualification from the University, such as the CM/DMS and wish to continue their management studies at master’s level. The MA is designed to develop those with a clear aspiration to function at a senior level, either as a manager or as a consultant.
MA Management of Innovation and Change
The MA Management of Innovation and Change is designed to enable participants to focus on an area of the management of innovation and change that is of specific interest to them and that will enable them to develop specialist expertise that they judge will provide them with career-enhancing potential.
MA Human Resource Management
The MA Human Resource Management presents an opportunity for qualified human resource specialists and managers with substantial relevant experience to study human resource management (HRM) subjects at master's level. The programme develops an understanding of the relationship between HRM processes and strategic management. The degree is designed to develop those with a clear aspiration to function at a To apply: Email: pgenquiries-bus@brookes.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0) 1865 485992 Fax: +44 (0) 1865 485765 Postgraduate Administrator (MA Programmes) Oxford Brookes University Business School Wheatley Campus, Wheatley Oxford, OX33 1HX, UK
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senior level.
Creating and applying knowledge In order to succeed, you are required to contribute to the creation of new knowledge or the confirmation of existing knowledge, through its application in an organisational, sectoral or professional context. Dissertation incorporating Critical Debates and Organisational Research Methods The master’s programme consists of a single taught module delivered through a series of six one-day workshops that are designed to preface different stages in a research process. The module aims to familiarise you with alternative methodological frameworks and
Oxford Brookes University Business School
Your year in focus...
September
Induction/ Workshop 1
October
Workshop 2 Workshop 3 Workshop 4
November
December
January
Critical Debates and Organisational Research Methods including dissertation proposal
Workshop 5 Workshop 6
Dissertation
July/August
explores alternative approaches to data collection and analysis. It also explores critical issues in research and themes associated with the conduct of successful research. The module concludes in the delivery of a 20,000-word dissertation and a reflective practice essay. There are three assessment points. The first involves the submission of a research proposal and is assessed as either pass or fail. The second involves the submission of a reflective practice essay that draws upon the experience of learning within the workshop programme. The third involves submitting the dissertation itself. Teaching and learning Students are formed into peer-assisted learning groups within which you undertake tasks and reading in preparation for each workshop. Each group is assigned a personal tutor. Students and tutors are supported by WebCT, a software package giving access to the full power of online learning experience through a networked learning environment. This enables you to remain in contact with your peers and your tutors whilst exchanging views, experiences and insights in relation to the topic under review. Each of you is assigned an experienced supervisor who typically has specialist knowledge of the subject or disciplinary area chosen and with whom you are required to agree the research objectives. You are expected to meet with your supervisor in accordance with your project plan. The plan is developed and agreed jointly by you and the supervisor at the outset of the process. Normally, you will also negotiate a set of outcomes that will add value to the organisation(s) with which you choose to undertake the work. The dissertation will be assessed against organisational, sectoral or professional significance and contribution. Entry requirements Year 3 Master’s programmes • A Postgraduate Diploma acceptable to the University.
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Executive MBA
Master of Business Administration
Employers wish to recruit managers who can successfully function across international boundaries; the MBA prepares you for that role.
Convenient weekend study blocks give you the advantages of full-time study,
INDUCTION STAGE ONE
Economic Environment Operational Emphasis
whilst you test your ideas in the workplace and continue to draw a salary. The Executive MBA is studied over 24 months, commencing in September with an induction weekend, followed by 12 weekend schools per annum over two years.
RESEARCH METHODS AND SKILLS WORKSHOP
Marketing Management Organisational Analysis Operations Management Accounting for Managers
We appreciate that it is not possible for everyone who would like to study for the Oxford Brookes MBA to do so on a full-time basis. The big advantage of the Executive MBA is that you can continue in your existing employment whilst studying for a qualification through attendance at Saturday/Sunday workshops, conveniently delivered at the Wheatley Campus. This gives the additional benefit of being able to continuously put theory into practice. The intensive study blocks also give some of the benefits of full-time study in terms of discussing issues with fellow students. We will involve you in a dynamic management development programme, which will address your current and future management needs. We aim to recruit a diverse cohort of students with professional or managerial backgrounds within the public or private sector. The MBA is designed to equip you to carry out hard analysis and evaluation of a range of business and management situations. In addition, the course prepares you for some of the softer implementation issues, such as leadership and the skill of influencing others, which can make the difference between success and failure.
STRATEGY MODULE
STAGE TWO
Strategic Management Emphasis Strategic Human Resource Management Strategic Information Management Strategies for Financial Success New Venture Business Plan *Elective *Timetabling of electives may vary from your normal schedule
Business Transformation
STAGE THREE
Application and Specialisation Dissertation
AWARD: MBA
LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
Global Context
Master of Business Administration
The initial area of study has an operational emphasis, which prepares you to observe the world of business and management through the functional perspective of senior management. The second area emphasises the strategic and integrative nature of business and management and prepares you to take a holistic view of the organisation and its environment through the eyes of a typical chief executive. The final part of your MBA allows you to either broaden your knowledge or to specialise in an area of your choice through a combination of electives and your dissertation topic. You may decide to focus on a particular organisation, sector, or business and management topic or theme. Throughout the programme you are encouraged to consider ethical issues facing senior managers. One-year full-time and distance learning MBAs are also offered. Transfer between
To apply: Email: pgenquiries-bus@brookes.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0) 1865 485920 Fax: +44 (0) 1865 485765 The MBA Programme Administrator Oxford Brookes University Business School, Wheatley Campus Wheatley, Oxford, OX33 1HX, UK
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study modes is possible during the programme. A separate brochure is available giving further information on all MBA programmes. Please email pgenquiries-bus@brookes.ac.uk. MBA Entry requirements • A minimum of a second class UK honours degree or equivalent overseas degree from a recognised institution, or equivalent professional qualification or other qualification and three years’ minimum managerial or professional work experience or • seven years’ relevant work experience (for applicants without a degree).
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Distance Learning MBA
Master of Business Administration
A global programme in terms of students and content, which is structured and offers high levels of online tutor support, feedback and face-to-face opportunities.
This programme enables you to maintain your career and to study at a time and pace which fits in with your personal and work demands. Students on this Distance Learning MBA Programme bring knowledge, understanding and business experience that can be shared with fellow students from around the world. ‘It feels like a real classroom and the discussions are lively’.
Tokozile Dlodlo, Accountant, High Commission.
MONTHS
PROGRAMME STRUCTURE
1
Foundations of Management
6
Accounting and Finance
Managing Self Development Leadership Development
12
Organisational Change and Transformation
Global Business Strategy
18
Elective
24
Dissertation (Research Methods)
30
Contact information
Valentin Mensah, Oxford Brookes Graduate and now a PhD student at the Business School
Email: mbaoxford@brookes.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0) 1865 485800 Fax: +44 (0) 1865 485802 The Distance Learning MBA Oxford Brookes University Business School Wheatley Campus, Wheatley Oxford, OX33 1HX, UK
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Oxford Brookes provided me with a range of proactive tutor support,
whether it was online, by telephone, or with face-to-face workshops. The Virtual Library provided me with unlimited access to electronic journals and databases. I could study at my own leisure with flexible seminars and at a pace that was comfortable to me. It was a great opportunity for me to mix knowledge and experiences with people from all over the world.
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Advancing your career
Telephone: +44 (0) 1865 485992 The Postgraduate Programmes Administrator Oxford Brookes University Business School Wheatley Campus, Wheatley, Oxford OX33 1HX, UK Fax: +44 (0) 1865 485765 Email: pgenquiries-bus@brookes.ac.uk
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