Posts Tagged ‘survey’
When is a business school more than a business school?
Business schools are sometimes Schools of Management, Schools of Business and Economics, Faculties of Business and Law, and, now, in a number of cases a School of Business and Society. Increasingly, schools recognise that business cannot be studied in isolation and the same is true of prospective Masters students. The 2020 Tomorrow’s Masters report, published…
Read MoreI wander lonely as a cloud security architect – Wordsworth and the future of business education
In the fourth of the See the Future blogs, Ian Hawkings, Senior Consultant at CarringtonCrisp, explores the expectations of employers regarding business school graduates. “When you are unemployed, weekends are seven days long”, so says the social critic and philosopher Mokokoma Mokhonoana. And although seven-day weekends may seem appealing on some level, virtually every study…
Read MoreStudents and employers want learning that heads in more than one direction
In the third of the See the Future blogs, Claudia Monteiro, Senior Consultant at CarringtonCrisp, examines what students want in their degrees and what employers want from students. Getting new postgraduate programmes up and running is laborious stuff. Planning the curriculum is a tiny fraction of the work; on the other side of it lies…
Read MoreA new world of work means a new world for business schools
In the second of our See the Future blogs, Ian Hawkings, Senior Consultant at CarringtonCrisp, tackles trends in the world of work. A 2015 article in The Guardian listed five ways in which working life would change in the future. It mentioned the rise of AI, the flattening of workplace structures and how more companies…
Read MoreSee the Future Series
A few years ago, CarringtonCrisp did some work for ALBA Graduate Business School in Athens and at the time they gave me a luggage tag, which has been on my rucksack ever since, with the words ‘Business unusual’. At the time, this was a bold claim, but today nothing could be more true. In mid-November…
Read MoreWhat future for the MBA?
The 2020 Tomorrow’s MBA report from CarringtonCrisp and EFMD suggests that the MBA market will be different from the previous decade. Stories still persist about the decline of the MBA, but the demand for postgraduate and lifelong learning will only grow in coming years as people have to reskill and upskill to build their careers. The…
Read MoreEmployers invited to take part in the 2020 GMAC Corporate Recruiters Survey
Providing insight into projected hiring for the coming year Registration is now open for the Corporate Recruiters Survey 2020! Your participation is important to us. The information collected in this survey is used to better prepare our business students as they seek to enter today’s rapidly changing job market. The Graduate Management Admission Council®, EFMD, Highered…
Read MoreWhat’s next for business education?
Making predictions about the future is never easy. Six years ago, Donald Trump was best known as a TV celebrity. At the same time, CarringtonCrisp worked with EFMD to run the See the Future project for the first time, looking at where business education might be heading. The introduction to the first ‘See the Future’…
Read MoreWhere in the world would you study and why?
International competition has exploded with business schools across the globe seeking to recruit internationally, technology has brought new competitors to the market delivering to students anywhere, anytime and the demographics of the student market are changing with a shift towards lifelong learners. The latest Business of Branding survey from CarringtonCrisp in cooperation with EFMD continues…
Read MoreA new generation of leaders?
Changing trends in business Masters The market for the Masters in Management and specialist pre-experience Masters is substantial. In the testing year of 2018, GMAC found that 34.3% of its GMAT test takers used their results to apply for a business Masters. In East and South East Asia and Western Europe it was up to…
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