英-基尔大学- Keele Agent newsletter November 2024

1. Keele Business School MBA ranks in Top 40 for sustainability in prestigious global ranking
2. Postgraduate open events 2024
3. Airport pickup  for Jan 2025 Intake
4. New Business Management Degrees allow students to specialise in different fields
5. Keele Professor receives prestigious Royal College of Psychiatrists award

Keele Business School has ranked among the top 40 universities in the world for embedding sustainability in its MBA course in a global ranking of over 170 business schools worldwide. 

KBS ranked 32nd in the world in the recent Corporate Knights 2024 Better World MBA ranking, which scores MBA providers across the world on their efforts to provide a course that enables graduates to have a positive impact on the world. 

The 2024 exercise looked at 174 business schools around the world, scoring them according to how much of their MBA course is focused on promoting sustainable development in their teaching. 

This year’s ranking also featured an additional category looking at the proportion of each university’s graduates who go on to work in “impact” organisations, such as not-for-profit companies and those whose primary focus is providing solutions to social and/or environmental problems. 

For postgraduates, our rural campus community provides an environment that is focused, relevant and mature. Students will have full access to our respected academics and benefit from our excellence in research. Keele offers a full range of postgraduate programmes, that will enable students to progress their career and broaden their opportunities. 

Our next Postgraduate Open Event will take place on Wednesday 4 December 2024 (virtual event 10am-12pm; in-person event 2pm-4pm).

To find more and register for the event, please click here.

We strongly recommend that your students arrive at the University for the start of your course, as stated in students' offer letter and Confirmation of Acceptance for Studies (CAS). In-person enrolment begins on Wednesday 22 January and induction activities will be running from Monday 27 January, so we recommend that students arrive by this date at the latest. Teaching for the majority of programmes will begin from Monday 27 January, however, please consult your students' individual enrolment information for specific details.

We are offering all new international fee-paying and exchange students a free Meet & Greet airport transfer service. This is available to new international students only.  

The free Meet & Greet Airport Transfer from Manchester International Airport will be available on Wednesday 22nd January 2025. 

Please ensure that you only register for this service if your flight arrival into the UK is on Wednesday 22nd January and your flight arrives before 15:00 GMT.

The registration form is now live and students can access it by clicking here.

Please note, registration forms submitted after 23:59 GMT on Sunday 12th January 2025 will not be processed and you will not be registered for this service.  

A range of new Business Management degrees have been launched at Keele Business School, offering students the chance to specialise in a variety of different areas. 

The suite of new degrees includes undergraduate degrees in Business Management with Entrepreneurship; Events; Hospitality; International Tourism; and Sustainability. The five new specialisms complement Keele’s existing Business Management degrees on offer, which also include Finance; Marketing; and Human Resources. Business Management at Keele provides a balance of a cutting-edge business education with practical, real-world skills to support students into the world of work.   

The curriculum allows students to build their core business knowledge and develop understanding of organisations and how they function, focusing on areas like leadership, strategy, business operations, marketing and human resource management.  Economics, politics and society are also explored, along with data analysis, and with tailored module content for each specialism to give students a solid foundation for a career in their chosen industries. 

A professor of psychiatry from Keele University has been commended for his “highly innovative and international” research by an esteemed psychiatry organisation. 

Professor Saeed Farooq, NIHR Global Research Professor and Professor of Psychiatry and Public Mental Health at Keele, won the prestigious Royal College of Psychiatrists Mid/Senior Career Academic Researcher of the Year Award at the recent RCPsych Awards 2024. 

These annual awards celebrate “the best and brightest teams and individuals” in the field of psychiatry, with the judges commending Professor Farooq’s research as being “highly innovative and international in nature with great potential for improving care for mental ill-health worldwide”.

Professor Farooq said “I am extremely delighted to receive the Academic Researcher of the Year award. This award highlights the highly innovative and impactful nature of our research that had highly significant impact for large populations of disadvantaged people living with mental illness worldwide.  

“The award recognises the hard work that my team and collaborators have been doing at Keele, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka and other countries.”