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43-530: In 1989, Shaun Greenhalgh's father, George, tried to sell to Manchester University a supposed 10th-century Anglo-Saxon silver reliquary , containing a small piece of wood which he claimed was a fragment of the True Cross . He said he had found the vessel while metal detecting in a park in Preston, Lancashire . Shaun, who had crafted the object, intended it to resemble a known missing Anglo-Saxon piece, dating back to

86-646: A 101-room hotel that is opening in 2017. It is also the home of the MBA programme. The complex was designed by Hugh Wilson and Lewis Womersley and dates from the 1970s. The newer part "MBS East" lies on the northeast corner of Oxford Road and Booth Street East. It was completed in 1997 at the time when the UMIST departments co-located to form the Federal School. The building cost £7m and was designed by London architects ORMS. MBS East currently houses undergraduate services and some of

129-483: A minimum work experience of 3 years and a good GMAT is required for admission to the MBA programs. The 18 months full-time MBA program is known for its "Manchester Method" which puts emphasis on learning by doing throughout the entire duration of the programme, including significant real life projects. In addition, the school offers the so-called "Manchester Gold" programme, a mentoring scheme to provide students with opportunities to meet regularly with professionals from

172-763: A new plan for the campus. The final report was issued in 1966; it recommended removing traffic from Oxford Road to the adjacent main routes east and west, and building of the Precinct Centre – subsequently constructed in 1970–1972. The Precinct Centre building included the oldest part of the Manchester Business School , Devonshire House and Crawford House and St Peter's House, the University Chaplaincy. It stood on Booth Street East and Booth Street West and Oxford Road ran through it at ground level. The architects were Wilson & Womersley, in association with

215-480: A new, larger entity named the University of Manchester . Owens College was founded in 1851, named after John Owens , a textile merchant, who left a bequest of £96,942 for the purpose. Its first accommodation was at Cobden House on Quay Street , Manchester, in a house which had been the residence of Richard Cobden . In 1859, Owens College was approved as a provincial examination centre for matriculation candidates of

258-537: A unique part-time option for Master of Business Administration students called the Part-time Global MBA. This programme provides online instruction along with the ability for students to study at any of six global centres, while receiving the same degree. Students are able to take classes in Manchester, China , Hong Kong , Singapore and Dubai . Students spend one week per semester attending workshops at one of

301-480: A wide variety of sectors and industries. Last year's mentors, for example, came from high-profile companies such as Morgan Stanley , PricewaterhouseCoopers , Royal Dutch Shell Group, IBM Global Services and GlaxoSmithKline among many others. As of 2013, the Head of MBS is Professor Fiona Devine OBE. The school's advisory board is chaired by businessman Tony De Nunzio . Among the bodies validating MBS programmes,

344-596: Is now approved for £50m refurbishment. This strategic development forms part of the University's ten-year, £1 billion Campus Masterplan to create some of the most modern campus facilities in the world along the southern gateway to the city, known as the Manchester Corridor. Subject to planning consent, work on the retail redevelopment will begin in 2015, with the development set to open in mid-2016. The wider scheme of MBS refurbishment works will be completed in phases with

387-494: Is ranked 13th in the world for the career progress of its alumni. The average salary of Manchester's MBA graduates after three years is US$ 116,100 – the 12th highest of European business schools. Historic rankings, such as the Forbes survey, which lists business schools on their "return on investment" via a survey of alumni salaries, put Manchester 2nd in the UK and 5th in the world. In

430-603: The British Psychological Society validates its Organizational Psychology masters, and the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development its HRM MSc degree. Its MBA is one of a select band worldwide which receive triple accreditation by AACSB International, AMBA and EQUIS . It is also a program partner of the CFA Institute . The Financial Times Global MBA Ranking 2017 survey ranks MBS MBA 3rd in

473-840: The Faculty of Humanities of the University of Manchester . As of 2008 with over 200 teaching staff it is the largest campus-based business school in the country, and has an international student composition as three-quarters of its student body is from outside the UK. Manchester offers PhD (full and part-time); D.B.A – Doctor of Business Administration (executive part-time); M.B.A – Master of Business Administration (full-time, executive part-time, and blended learning); several specialist masters programmes as well as undergraduate degrees. Entry requirements for undergraduate and postgraduate degrees are both highly competitive. For popular undergraduate courses such as Accounting and/or Finance, 70 places are available for approximately 1600 applicants. As of 2006,

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516-686: The UK , and provides education to undergraduates, postgraduates and executives. According to the Financial Times 2018 Global MBA Rankings, its MBA programme is ranked 10th in Europe, 36th in the world and 4th in the UK. Its "MSc Business Analytics" programme ranked 6th in the world and 2nd in the UK; "MSc International Business and Management" 20th and "MSc Finance" 18th, as per the QS World University Ranking 2018. It includes departments from both

559-538: The University of London (this would become the London Business School ), and one in Manchester centred on the (Victoria) University and UMIST. These became the first two University Grants Committee -funded business schools. The first director of the business school was appointed in 1965. Grigor McClelland was the first research fellow at Balliol College, Oxford in Management Studies, the chairman of

602-405: The University of London . As the college progressed the premises became inadequate so a move to Chorlton on Medlock was planned in 1871. Alfred Waterhouse was the architect of the new college building, west of Oxford Road, which was opened in 1873. Owens College became the first affiliate college of the federal Victoria University in 1880. In 1884, University College Liverpool also joined

645-592: The University of Manchester , was a university in Manchester , England. It was founded in 1851 as Owens College . In 1880, the college joined the federal Victoria University . After the demerger of the Victoria University, it gained an independent university charter in 1904 as the Victoria University of Manchester. On 1 October 2004, the Victoria University of Manchester merged with the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) to form

688-655: The Which MBA? survey MBS reached the 5th place in the UK, 8th in Europe and 30th in the world. The MBA Career Guide of international MBA recruiters placed Manchester 2nd in the UK, 7th in Europe and 15th in the world. In the 2009 QS Global 200 Business Schools Report the school was ranked 14th in Europe. In the UK government Research Assessment Exercise 2008 (RAE 2008), MBS is ranked first of all UK universities for research power in Business and Management and Finance and Accounting. The Financial Times ranks MBS PhD programme 1st in

731-554: The 1930s. The MUP offices moved several times to make way for other developments within the university. Since 1951 these have been Grove House , Oxford Road, then the former University Dental Hospital of Manchester ( illustrated ) and until the present time the Manchester Medical School in Coupland Street. In the mid-1960s the university and the city corporation commissioned Hugh Wilson and Lewis Womersley to produce

774-655: The Research Centres of MBS. Manchester Accounting and Finance Group (MAFG) of MBS is located in Crawford House, which is situated opposite MBS East on the southwest corner of Oxford Road and Booth Street West and is linked via a pedestrian walkway. The Masood Enterprise Centre , pioneer of the Master of Enterprise degree, is located in the Zochonis Building, Brunswick Street. As announced on 15 August 2014, The MBS West

817-1340: The UK rated as 6* by the RAE (i.e. with RAE 5* rating for two consecutive periods). According to a survey published by Accounting and Finance in 2008, MBS is ranked as the "world number one for accounting research". Manchester has several research centres of international standing. These include those in the areas of decision sciences, employment and labour studies, technology management and innovation, and critical management studies . Among its Professors with World-ranked reputations are Fiona Devine (Sociology), Luke Georghiou (Policy), Ian Miles (Technological Innovation and Social Change), Giovanni Dosi (Innovation Economics), Paul Jackson (Corporate Communications), Joseph Stiglitz (Economics), Thomas Kirchmaier (Corporate Strategy/Governance), Colin Talbot (Public Policy and Management), Jikyeong Kang (Marketing), John Hassard (Organization Studies), Mick Marchington (HRM), Jill Rubery FBA (Employment Studies), Trevor Wood-Harper (Information Systems), Peter Kawalek (Information Systems and Strategy), Maria Nedeva (Innovation Management), Andrew Stark (Finance), Martin Walker (Accounting and Finance) and Richard Whitley (Business Systems). Karel Williams

860-428: The UK, 10th in Europe and 30th in the world. In 2011, the school was ranked among the top 30 business schools in the world for its MBA program, and 1st in the world for its doctoral program (both PhD and D.B.A). It is placed 11th in Europe and 4th in the UK, while being 6th in Europe for percentage salary increase of its graduates. Regarding international experience, MBS is 17th in the world and 7th in Europe as well as

903-414: The Victoria University and the Victoria University of Manchester, flanking the gates. This is a list of books about the Victoria University of Manchester and its predecessor Owens College. Manchester Business School Alliance Manchester Business School ( Alliance MBS ) is the business school of the University of Manchester in Manchester, England. It is one of the oldest business schools in

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946-576: The Victoria University, followed in 1887 by the Yorkshire College in Leeds . In 1903, University College Liverpool left the Victoria University to become the independent University of Liverpool ; Leeds followed in 1904 to become the University of Leeds . The new Victoria University of Manchester was established by royal charter on 15 July 1903; the university and Owens College were merged by Act of Parliament on 24 June 1904. The Manchester University Press

989-541: The World (Jan 2012). Furthermore, Manchester was selected by UK Border Agency as part of the Highly Skilled Migrant Programme which gives MBA-graduates from the world's top 50 business schools extra qualification points and helps them meet visa requirements to work in the UK. The Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA) assessed the school's teaching quality with 24 out of 24 points. MBS offers

1032-538: The annual Grigor McClelland lecture series was launched to explore the interaction between business, education and social responsibility. It was named in honour of the first director, as this was an area that he had pioneered. The older part of MBS, called "MBS West" is part of the University Precinct Centre complex on the southwest corner of Oxford Road and Booth Street West. The building houses lecture and conference suites and restaurant facilities including

1075-603: The archives do not record the reasons for its choice. The original verse refers to a serpent and the sun, both of which featured in the university coat of arms . The serpent is traditionally associated with wisdom. The arms were granted in October 1871 to Owens College while the Victoria University had arms of its own which fell into abeyance from 1904 upon the merger of the college with the University. According to Norman Marlow (A. N. Marlow, Senior Lecturer in Latin, Department of Classics at

1118-406: The coat of arms was applied for – suggesting both the idea of the institution striving towards excellence, and the city (with its particularly high annual rainfall) 'reaching upwards with difficulty towards the sun'. The emblem of the university in use for a number of years (last used September 2004) was based on the archway into the quadrangle from Oxford Road, where there are two coats of arms, of

1161-449: The college. It also educated the young J. J. Thomson before he went to Trinity College, Cambridge Since the later 1800s, many notable people have worked and studied at the Victoria University of Manchester as, for example, Benedict Cumberbatch . The motto of the university was Arduus ad solem , meaning "striving towards the sun". It is a metaphor for aspiring to enlightenment . It is quoted from Virgil 's Aeneid , Book II, and

1204-489: The constituent parts of new MBS formed, from 1994, the "Manchester Federal School of Business and Management". and occupied nearby buildings either side of Oxford Road On 21 September 2015, Manchester Business School changed its name to Alliance Manchester Business School, following a donation from Lord Alliance of Manchester and his fellow Trustees of the Alliance Family Foundation. The school comes under

1247-497: The final phase due for completion in early 2018. The plans reconfigure the existing precinct centre to create up to 14 units with double-height glazed frontages onto Oxford Road. The variety of units will create a mixed offer of retail, food and leisure for students, staff and visitors to the University and Business School. The offer will complement the new hotel and enhanced Manchester Business School Executive Education Centre, both of which are being developed as part of phase one, which

1290-614: The first higher education institutions in the UK to follow the US trend of offering postgraduate management programmes in the 1930s. The Department of Industrial Administration was heavily influenced by management science pioneer Charles Garonne Renold . The Robbins Report in the 1960s recommended that two national centres for postgraduate business education be created, and the Franks Report subsequently suggested that one would be in London centred on

1333-616: The former Victoria University of Manchester 's Faculty of Business Administration, and from UMIST . The foundation of the School dates back to 1918, when the Manchester Municipal College of Technology (as UMIST was then called) pioneered academic training in management, with the formation of a Department of Industrial Administration funded by an endowment from asbestos magnate Sir Samuel Turner . The London School of Economics and Manchester Municipal College of Technology were

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1376-784: The grocery chain Laws Stores and founder of the Journal of Management Studies . McClelland introduced the Manchester Experiment , which would become known as the Manchester Method . The MBA course started in 1967. From 1968, the Business school came under Victoria University of Manchester 's Faculty of Business Administration, that Grigor McClelland having been appointed Dean of the Faculty in 1967. In 1971, Manchester Business School and UMIST's Manchester School of Management were both among

1419-432: The offices of registrar and bursar as that of registrar and secretary, the last holder of this post was Eddie Newcomb (1995–2004). In the early decades of Owens College, a few outstanding faculty members set high standards for the new institution. These included statistician Stanley Jevons , jurist James Bryce , William Eyre Walker (Art Master) and particularly Henry Enfield Roscoe Professor of Chemistry and Principal of

1462-434: The refurbishment of circa 200,000 sq ft of MBS facilities to create significantly improved teaching and administrative accommodation, a new Learning Library and Enterprise Zone. In the previous 2001 Research Assessment Exercise (pre-merger) the 'old' Manchester Business School and Manchester School of Management were both rated 5. Manchester School of Accounting and Finance is one of only two accounting and finance schools in

1505-475: The seven centres, and ten nights' hotel stay is included with the cost of tuition. Each centre has its own team of staff and facilities and all of them together support over 3,500 students from more than 100 countries around the world. The same faculty members teach across the centres representing forty different countries. As part of the 50th anniversary of the Manchester Business School in 2015,

1548-574: The time it merged with UMIST. It was regarded as one of the top universities in the country, frequently achieving top ratings for research. The chief officers of the university were the vice-chancellor, the registrar, the bursar and the librarian . In later years many administrative changes were made that increased the independence of the Director of Estates and Services, the Director of the Manchester Computing Centre, and eventually combined

1591-508: The time of Eadred , the King of England from 946 to 955. The British Museum decided that the reliquary was not genuine, but the Greenhalgh family managed to sell it privately for a modest £100. This art -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Victoria University of Manchester The Victoria University of Manchester , usually referred to as simply

1634-677: The twelve founder members of the Conference of University Management Schools (now the Chattered Association of Business Schools). The "new" Manchester Business School was formed in 2004 as a result of the merger of UMIST 's Manchester School of Management, the Institute of Innovation Research (IoIR), the Victoria University of Manchester 's School of Accounting and Finance, and the 1965 created Manchester Business School. Prior to merger

1677-452: The university in the 1960s), the motto Arduus ad solem – taken from Aeneid II – was a play on words, relating to Manchester's geographical situation. The Virgilian context referred to Pyrrhus, appearing in shining armour 'like a snake which has sloughed its skin, reaching upwards with an effort towards the sun'; the motto was chosen by the Professor of Latin at the time ( Augustus Wilkins ) and

1720-569: The university's planning officer, H. Thomas; for St Peter's House the architects were Cruickshank & Seward. The Precinct Centre was the largest public building completed in the campus redevelopment, containing office and shopping space, a pub, library and post office amongst other town centre facilities, designed to separate pedestrians from traffic. The Precinct Centre was demolished in August 2015 as part of Manchester University's £50m redevelopment of Manchester Business School. On 5 March 2003 it

1763-434: Was announced that the university was to merge with UMIST on 1 October 2004, to form the largest conventional university in the UK, the University of Manchester , following which the Victoria University of Manchester and UMIST would cease to exist. The new university was inaugurated on 1 October 2004. The university had more than 18,000 full-time students (including 2500 international students from more than 120 countries) by

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1806-585: Was founded by James Tait in 1904 (as the Publications Committee of the University), initially to publish academic research being undertaken at the Victoria University of Manchester. The office was accommodated in a house in Lime Grove. Distribution was then in the hands of Sherratt & Hughes of Manchester; from 1913 the distributors were Longmans, Green & Co. though this arrangement came to an end in

1849-463: Was granted planning consent in April 2013 with construction due to commence later in 2014. In addition to the retail and leisure, phase two includes the removal of a link bridge across Oxford Road to improve views and light levels in the area. Public realm improvements such as pavement widening will enhance the area for pedestrians, cyclists and public transport users. The phase two redevelopment also includes

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