The Business School team was out in force at Venturefest last week (with the exception of me, due to illness). I hear it was another fantastic celebration of science, technology and creative enterprise, and I was sorry to miss it.
I always read the Times Higher Education with great interest and was particularly drawn to a recent report on its investigation into UK universities increasingly pushing for academic staff to hold PhDs.
January is notoriously the time to reflect on what we have and haven’t ticked off our to-do list, set resolutions (and break them), look ahead and plan (often when the next holiday will be!).
The Christmas jumper is making a comeback this year, I hear, and will no doubt sit alongside gloves and socks aplenty under our Christmas trees later this month.
The KISS principle is often cited in business – “keep it short and simple” (or, for some, “keep it simple, stupid”). This month, I saw it in action.
As many people prepare to head for the sun and escape yet another “glorious” British summer, the Business School team is returning from an overseas trip.
Preparing to shoot a video this month that will illustrate some of the ways in which businesses can work with us here at the Business School has focused my mind firmly on the topic of business-university collaboration.
With reports of a £9.6 billion contraction in business lending in 2011, and missed lending quotas, banks remain under fire for not giving businesses the support they need to survive the economic downturn.
Last month George Osborne delivered a Budget that he said, “unashamedly backs business”. From the conversations I’ve had with businesses here in York, the feeling on the ground is very much “let’s see”.
Employability is the gauntlet that continues to be thrown down to the education sector by the business community and the Holy Grail for universities sending graduates out into the world of work.
