CIM and DMS at Anglia Ruskin University

Study on the Postgraduate Certificate in Management and Postgraduate DMS Diploma in Management Studies programmes.

The Postgraduate Certificate stage provides a foundation in general management. It focuses on the individual and your personal development in the context of the organisation and the wider external environment.
The Postgraduate Diploma in Management Studies is designed to integrate the functional and operational elements of management within successful business strategy development.

Complete your management education by following Stage 3 of the part-time MBA programme.

Student business competitions

See the Cambridge AREA website for details of student business competitions later in 2008.

Contact     robert.jones@anglia.ac.uk       for details

MBA in Cambridge at Anglia Ruskin University

Study for your MBA in Cambridge part-time over two years at the Ashcroft International Business School of Anglia Ruskin University. This programme was established in 1989.

On the two year part-time programme, you attend lectures and seminars on Thursday / Friday / Saturday once a month at the Anglia Ruskin Cambridge campus. The same programme is also offered at Anglia Ruskin’s Chelmsford campus.

Students fly in from jobs in the USA and Germany once a month to follow the part-time programme.

Contact Programme Leader Robert Jones for details:- robert.jones@anglia.ac.uk

You can also study for an MBA full-time at the Cambridge campus.

Or you could study on the Postgraduate Certificate in Management and Postgraduate DMS Diploma in Management Studies programmes.

In July 2006, a team of Anglia Ruskin MBA students won the i10 Innovators competition at the London Eye.

In March 2008, a team of Anglia Ruskin BA Business and Management students won the IBM UBC Universities Business Challenge.

The more famous school in Cambridge is the Judge Business School - part of the University of Cambridge

MBA in Berlin

The Berlin School of Economics (Fachhochschule für Wirtschaft Berlin) has been running its MBA programme since 1992 in conjunction with Anglia Ruskin. Building on many years of experience, the MBA programme is designed to enable the students to obtain a Masters degree from both Anglia Ruskin University and the Berlin School of Economics (FHW).

British Airways profits soar 45%

British Airways has reported a 45% rise in annual profits but warned that economic uncertainty and high fuel costs pose challenges.

BA made a profit of £883m in the year to 31 March, which BA boss Willie Walsh called an “outstanding” result. Mr Walsh said he would not be taking an annual bonus because of the problems at the opening of Heathrow’s Terminal 5. The airline warned that the problems with the move to Terminal 5 would hurt its earnings this year. Nevertheless, its shares closed up more than 4% in trading on Friday.

BBC News 16:17 GMT, Friday, 16 May 2008 17:17 UK

Report tackles supermarket powers

Measures designed to curb the power of major supermarkets and improve choice for consumers have been announced by the Competition Commission.

Recommended changes to the planning system will make it harder for one chain to dominate a local area. A new independent ombudsman will resolve any disputes between suppliers and retailers. But supermarkets are arguing that consumers could end up paying the cost of running the ombudsman scheme. The measures come at the end of a two-year investigation into the UK’s supermarket sector.

BBC News Wednesday, 30 April 2008 13:27 UK

Responses from the supermarkets:-  Tesco Sainsbury’s ASDA

US business airline Eos goes bust

US business-class airline Eos has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and said it will cease operating flights by Monday.

The firm said it had “insufficient cash to continue operations” after failing to win an investment that would have sustained the firm until 2009. Eos was launched two years ago, flying between New York’s JFK airport and the UK’s Stansted airport. Its collapse follows the demise of rival Maxjet in December 2007.

BBC News 12:14 GMT, Sunday, 27 April 2008 UK

Silverjet has business class services from London Luton airport to Newark, NJ and to Dubai.

British tycoons fall on hard times as international set tops Rich List

The British-born rich are being left behind in the wealth stakes by an international “superclass” based in London, according to The Sunday Times Rich List for 2008.

Only six of the top twenty places in the list, published yesterday, go to people who were born in Britain.

Britain’s two wealthiest men are once again the steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal and Roman Abramovich, the Russian owner of Chelsea Football Club. Mr Mittal, 57, who retains his Indian passport but spends much of his time in London, tops the list for the fourth consecutive year. His family’s wealth has increased by £8 billion to £27.7 billion in the past year thanks to strong demand for steel.

Heathrow Terminal 5 - update

British Airways plans to “to fly 92 per cent of our flying programme to and from Terminal 5 by Thursday April 3″.

Meanwhile “it will take up to a week to return 28,000 bags placed in temporary storage after troubles at Heathrow’s Terminal 5″ a government minister has said - BBC News.

BAA British Airports Authority has nothing to say about T5 problems on its website. It has an interesting Customer Service page.

BMW boss battles falling dollar

BMW, the world’s biggest premium carmaker, sold a record 1.5 million vehicles in 2007, and says it is on course to meet its target of selling 1.8 million cars in 2012, confident that sales of its BMW, Mini and Rolls-Royce brands will continue growing.

The company’s profit before tax was 3.9bn euros ($6.1bn; £3.0bn) in 2007, 6.1% down on the previous year, but still high. Despite the weak dollar and high commodity prices, the carmaker is hoping to increase its earnings this year.

But there is one big cloud on the horizon. The BMW group is battling to limit the fall-out from the weakening dollar. In an interview with the BBC, BMW’s chief executive, Norbert Reithofer, confirmed that the carmaker would be increasing production at its plant in the US.

BBC News Thursday, 20 March 2008, 00:03 GMT

Debut Airbus A380 flight lands in London

The Airbus A380 super-jumbo has completed its first European commercial flight after a plane from Singapore landed at London’s Heathrow airport. Singapore Airlines is the first carrier to operate the new double-decker aircraft on revenue-earning services. Flight SQ308 arrived at Heathrow 15 minutes before its 1505 GMT schedule. British Airways has ordered 12 of the airliners, due to be delivered from 2012, while Virgin Atlantic has ordered six, to arrive from 2013.

The Singapore Airlines flight carries 470 passengers, each of whom will receive a personalised certificate to commemorate the historic first flight to the UK. The carrier has three A380s in service, with 16 more on order, and has been using them on flights between Singapore and Sydney, Australia, since October 2007.

BBC News Tuesday, 18 March 2008, 14:55 GMT