Press office news tagged plymouth-business-school

2018 University of Plymouth FLUX Champions crowned

Six teams battled it out in the final of the University of Plymouth FLUX competition, with one of the UK’s Top 100 Undergraduate Employers, Enterprise Rent-a-Car, setting a real-life challenge to test students.
6 April 2018
International project investigating access to employment and entrepreneurship to survey hundreds of southwest young people

Researchers from the University of Plymouth’s Faculty of Business are leading part of a Europe-wide project aiming to encourage young people to consider becoming entrepreneurs.
20 March 2018
Appropriate risk management is crucial for effective strategic leadership, says new report

Organisations cannot exploit strategic opportunities, or protect themselves from potential losses or failures, without a clear steer from the top on appropriate risk taking, according to a new report by the University of Plymouth for the ACCA
28 February 2018
New Head for Plymouth Business School

Internationally renowned expert in the field of maritime law and economics, Professor Jingjing Xu, has been appointed as the Head of School for the new Plymouth Business School.
21 February 2018
Employers urged to combat worker ill-treatment

The Irish Workplace Behaviour Survey was commissioned by the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health, and carried out by researchers from the National University of Ireland (NUI) Galway, the University of Limerick and the University of Plymouth
24 January 2018
Extracurricular efforts equal great success rate in Universities Business Challenge

Students from Plymouth Business School have proved they can translate academic learning into real-world commercial sense, with success in an IBM-sponsored national competition.
3 January 2018
Conference addresses HR challenges facing business in South West

More than 100 delegates attended a conference organised by the HR and Leadership group at Plymouth Business School and the iSPER People Organisations and Work research group in conjunction with Devon and Cornwall branch of the CIPD.
21 June 2017
New agreement with International University in Geneva

The University of Plymouth has signed a new partnership to offer undergraduate courses at one of Switzerland’s leading business schools, the International University in Geneva
7 March 2017
Cornish students triumph in business competition

Plymouth University news: A team from Budehaven Community School in North Cornwall have triumphed in an annual competition at the University of Plymouth
21 December 2016
Comic Relief extends funding for enterprise project in Kenya

Plymouth University news: The University of Plymouth is looking to expand its work supporting farmers and families in rural Kenya after receiving a second grant from Comic Relief, taking the total received to more than £1.2 million over four years
15 November 2016
Workplace mediation can aid conflict management and boost employee relations

Plymouth University news: Workplace mediation can provide an efficient and effective route to conflict management and could be used more widely as a means of enhancing employment relations, according to new research
20 May 2016
Research aims to enhance understanding of enterprise within refugee communities

Plymouth University news: The extent to which entrepreneurship is a catalyst for empowerment and poverty alleviation among women refugees in Arab countries is to be explored in new research by Plymouth University and the University of Nottingham
14 April 2016