NU Biz School Student Blog

Hello everyone. Congratulations to you all for completing the final stretch this semester and I hope you all have amazing summers lined up. Unfortunately for me I can’t quite bask in this glorious sunshine just yet, but not long to go now until I resume student life otherwise known as “living the dream.”     Working professionally on industrial placement has truly been a life changing experience. My perspective on a lot of things has changed. I utilise my time so much more effectively, I am confident, organised and headstrong. I now realise that there are so many hours in More >

About two weeks ago, sat at my desk, I received an email entitled “Business School Achiever Awards”. Having heard a couple of other people in the office mention these awards recently, I wondered why I had received an email about them. Upon opening the email, I discovered that I had been nominated, and consequently achieved Runner Up in one of the categories! This is the first year of the Business School Student Achiever Awards. They have been launched to reward outstanding students who have gone the extra mile during their university studies. All of the winners and runners up have More >

Now well into the second half of my placement year, I am taking on new projects and responsibilities. As the Summer vacation draws nearer, I have been put in charge of orchestrating the 2013 RBI Internships. The question is, do you know what these internships are, and do you know why you should be dropping everything to get involved? RBI, the Reserve Bank of India, is India’s Central Bank and this is the third year that we have held this exclusive set of internships with them. Each year, a handful of carefully selected Business School students spend six weeks in More >

Almost 4 years spent in higher education and besides being super confident in my ability to reference Harvard Style by now, I’ve learned at least one other key thing too: uni isn’t just about studying! As my other fellow bloggers have advised, building on your CV is crucial nowadays as employers are expecting graduates to be some sort of super humans…Scary! Not taking the super human route, but the do-a-little-bit-of-everything route, throughout uni I tried to turn most of my hobbies into rewarding extra-curricular stuff that I could include in my CV. This was fun and didn’t seem like hard More >

Coming this summer the latest trend in urban street ware is due to hit the clubs. The guys from PARIAH COUTURE have created a new men’s clothing brand with a very straight forward attitude: None. Creative director James told the Biz School Blog that Pariah is not standing for anything: “It is the outcast of the fashion industry.” It is for the boy in his late teens to mid-twenties who does not want to stick with the mainstream. “Pariah does not want to symbolise any image – it’s the outcast and so are our customers.” With a starting capital of More >

On Friday the 26 April I presented at the 10 year anniversary of BAF (BA (Honours) Business, Accounting and Finance) programme, discussing what I have got out of the course so far and why I chose it. Personally for me, the question on why I chose the course was easy. Since starting university I always wanted to be an accountant so all my choices were accountancy based. However, what set this course head and shoulders above the rest for me was the partnership with PwC. My main goal in life, besides wanting to be an accountant, is to work and More >

With just short of a year of experience to reflect upon, the BAF 10 Year Anniversary was a great occasion to speak to and hear from previous students and the partners supporting its success and shaping the future of Flying Start. The introductory stage of the course has been invaluable; allowing me to settle into university life, establish friendships and explore my surroundings, while the teaching is providing us with a firm foundation of knowledge ready to enter Stage 2 – where we have been told the real work begins! I have been fortunate enough to train as a Student More >

‘Overwhelming array of talent showcased – 35 student enterprises faced a nail biting competition to face the panel of six Lions’ It set out to be the most exciting and innovative University wide competition to take place at Newcastle University and did not disappoint! The first annual NU Lions’ Den event took place on Wednesday the 24th of April at Venue downstairs in the Student Union, with 35 Student enterprises battling it out for the prize awards of £5000. Over 300 people attended the event including its sponsors, influential local business people and the wider public; each individual member of More >

  Enterprise society Enactus Newcastle have gone from strength to strength this year, transferring valuable business skills to local and international communities through our projects. As we currently develop exciting new ties with the Business School, society Vice President Sophie Hawley shares the teams experiences during last month’s National Competition… Enactus is a world-wide, not for profit organisation, that sees students all over the world engage in social outreach projects that tackle needs in their local and international communities. Central to the Enactus organisation is a competition which happens every year in every country that has Enactus. The U.K’s competition More >

It’s Friday, which only means one thing – it’s almost the weekend! Although, this week for me it feels like the weekend started early. I sit here this morning with a sore head from the night before, because this week I was lucky enough to be invited to the North East Business Awards 2013 Final, which took place last night. The annual North East Business Awards are designed to reward the efforts of North East businesses, and awards are presented in categories such as ‘Best Creative Company’, ‘Newcomer of the Year’, ‘Not-for-profit Organisation of the Year’, ‘Manufacturing Award’ to name More >