PResident's RePORt 2009/2010 - University College Cork

Foreword
UCC at a Glance
Academic Developments
Teaching and Learning
Research
College Reports:
Arts, Celtic
Studies and Social
Sciences
Business and Law
Medicine and Health
Science, Engineering and
Food Science
Events
Student Experience
Sports and Recreation
Buildings and Estates
Cork University Press
Finance
Governing Body
IRIS Appendix
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College of Business and Law
Introduction
The College of Business and Law continued to attract highlyqualified
students into its degree programmes at both
undergraduate and postgraduate level in 2009/2010. Our
postgraduate programmes have been particularly successful
in recruiting students from UCC and universities throughout
Ireland.
The success of our degree programmes relies on the strengths
of our academic staff in the constituent parts of the College of
Business and Law. We take our mission of research-led teaching
very seriously. To this end, the academic staff of the college have
engaged with the university-wide Research Quality Review.
It is a hallmark of the disciplines in our areas that staff engage
with external stakeholders in the business and legal community,
both locally and globally. Highlights of this kind of interaction
can be found later in this section. We have chosen to place
particular emphasis on our successes in the area of executive
and continuing professional education. Our engagement with
the broader community is illustrated by the impressive range of
adjunct professors appointed to College of Business and Law.
These individuals support and assist our endeavours by sharing
their experiences and successes in business, government and
law.
One of the most exciting strategies adopted in the University
Strategic Plan is the internationalisation of the student body.
College of Business and Law has been a leader in this area,
engaging in significant ways with students from countries as
diverse as China, Ethiopia, Nigeria, former Eastern European
countries and the United States. We have been successful
in recruiting international students at undergraduate and
postgraduate levels. Continuing to build on this success is an
important part of our strategy for the coming years. In turn,
our students have benefited from a range of new relationships
between UCC and universities in China, the US and from existing
relationships established through the European Union exchange
programmes.
The college encompasses a wide variety of academic activity
conducted through six departments: Accounting Finance
and Information Systems (AFIS); Economics; Government;
Food Business and Development (FBD): Management and
Marketing (M&M) and Law. There is also the Centre for Policy
Studies. The traditional faculty structures of the Faculties of
Commerce and Law also support the organisational structure
of the college.
The following pages cannot comprehensively encompass the
richness of our activities including: staff achievements; student
opportunities and successes; external relationships; plans and
ambitions, but nevertheless we hope to convey some sense of
the vibrant nature of the activities within the college.
Programme Development
Undergraduate Programmes
Diploma in Business and Financial Economics and Diploma
in Business Studies are two one-year programmes, initiated
by the Department of Economics, offered to students of our
international partner, the Beijing Technical and Business
University.
BSc (Business and Financial Economics) added two new
partner universities in China – Guilin University of Electronics and
Technology and Beijing Information, Science and Technological
University.
Bachelor of Civil Law – interest in our new undergraduate entry
streams for the BCL, BCL (International) and BCL (Clinical)
resulted in a strong student uptake.
Postgraduate Programmes
MBS Innovation in European Business – developed in
collaboration with the Institut Supérieur du Commerce de Paris
and the University of Applied Science, Utrecht. Students spend
time with each of the participating institutions.