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Higher Education in Management: The Case of the UK

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The genesis of modern business and management education owes much to the Urwick Committee’s report in 1945 (Argles 1964). Bryan (2009) suggests that the critical few lines in the Urwick Report were: “A valid distinction cannot be drawn between the study of management for one purpose rather than for another, nor is there anything new in the suggestion that management should be the subject of theoretical study.”

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    www.kpmg.com/uk/en/services/audit/pages/elearning-frs100-frs101.aspx

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    www.hays.co.uk/distance-learning

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    http://london.usembassy.gov/us_universities_in_uk.html

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    www.mbastudies.com/MBA/UK/Distance-learning

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    Reports on the postgraduate situation in the UK. 1994 Group (2012). “The postgraduate crisis”. Policy Report. February 2012.

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    Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) (2013). “Trends in transition from first degree to postgraduate students: qualifiers between 2002–2003 and 2010–2011”. July 2013.

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    British Academy. “Postgraduate funding: the neglected dimension”, Position Statement.

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    www.graduates.co.uk/graduate-employment-rates

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Ghobadian, A. (2017). Higher Education in Management: The Case of the UK. In: Dameron, S., Durand, T. (eds) The Future of Management Education. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56091-9_7

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