February 2007: The MSc in Project Management the Aberdeen Business School has been recognised by The Project Management Institute (PMI) as a Global Registered Education Provider. This is the first step in the full accreditation process and highlights the course as being regarded of the very highest quality.
Registered Education Providers (REPs) are organisations approved by PMI to offer project management training for Professional Development Units (PDU).
December 2006: An EU Fisheries Policy debate was held at Aberdeen Business School and chaired by the Head of the European Commission Office in Scotland. Four guest speakers debated the EU policies on fishing in front of an audience of students, staff and members of the local fisheries communities.
November 2006: The Chief Executive of the Design Council visited Aberdeen Business School as part of UK Enterprise Week. He presented his findings of a review into creativity in business and the role that the creative industries, business and education need to develop in order to maximise the UK's creative capabilities.
October 2006: A one day workshop 'Building High Performance Organisations and Cultures'. This will led by Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer at the Marcliffe at Pitfodels, Aberdeen on 30th October, 2006. Professor Pfeffer is recognised as one of the world's leading management educators.
Dennis Tourish, Professor in Management at Aberdeen Business School, is leading a major research project, supported by the European Social Fund, is looking at leadership development in Scotland. The first 'Evaluating Leadership' event took place in October 2005.
Professor Gary Hamel visited Aberdeen on Monday 5th September, 2005 to present a a full-day executive management conference entitled Corporate Resilience and a Framework for Innovation. See full information:
"Meiji Japan and Aberdeen Glover – and other Aberdonians" - this lecture was presented at Aberdeen Business School, in September 2005, by Professor Masami Kita, one of Japan's leading economic history academics. The event was part of a series of lectures delivered in Scotland to celebrate the important role that Scots played in the building of Japan.
A research study by Sue Beer, a PhD student at The Robert Gordon University, explores how living in communities in the more remote parts of the British Isles may make the inhabitants feel doubly isolated. Her research was to gain a greater understanding of the relationship between access to information and the effects of rural isolation using four remote communities in each of Shetland and The Western Isles of Scotland as case studies.
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