BSc Management Studies

Advantages: Great learning
Disadvantages: Hefty bills

...of typed paper with the lecture notes, and give a talk for about 50 minutes and after that what ever sunk in the mind stayed. No real explanation that helped understand an area of the subject. Every week would be included a business related case studies and exercises. The individual and group work presentations and coursework were also encouraged on a regular basis. Use of IT, was also used heavily, in terms of learning how to present work different computer programs. The use of report style writing was strongly advised to pass a course. The way the course is worked is based on the compulsory subjects chosen given in the course outline. Therefore certain subjects are an absolute such as Information Technology, Business Law, Human resource managment learning theories and case studies, and Marketing. The majority of the topics course...

costas1234 19.02.2008 (31.03.2008) · Read review
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Review of Business & Management

Oxford Dictionary of Business and Management

Advantages: Wide coverage of many terms
Disadvantages: Some puzzling omissions

...The Oxford Dictionary of Business and Management bills itself as: "best-selling dictionary, containing over 6,750 terms" And yes, that is a pretty accurate summation of this dictionary. So, I might as well get my coat then? No? You want to know a little more? Then I will tell you. This is not the first edition of this dictionary. The new (fourth) edition contains 250 new entries. It covers a wide range of different business terms, from economics to the laws as they relate to operating a business, and there is an appendix of useful business-related websites, too. Although the dictionary is generally good (some of the concepts are gone over in considerable depth, some with separate one or two page features) some of the categories are a little puzzling. For example, the entry for Netscape Navigator says: "Netscape: One...

Martinscholes 19.07.2006 · Read review
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Review of Oxford Dictionary of Business Management - Oxford Paperback Reference

BSc Business Studies

Advantages: Study when you can, no lectures to attend.
Disadvantages: The price of some of the courses.

...Although I am a member of staff of the OU, and could be classed as biased, I have to be straightforward and honest about their courses for myself. As I already have a degree, I moved straight into the level 2 compulsory courses. This is usually something you wouldn't be able to do at most other universities, and allows people to choose their courses if they already have experience of higher education. On this honours degree course, you need to obtain 360 points in total to gain the degree, with a minimum of 120 points at level 3. Half of the points are made up with 3 compulsory courses, and the rest can be chosen from a wide variety of options. I have completed one of the compulsory course so far, B200 Understanding Business Behaviour which has now been discontinued and replaced by a new course. I did find some parts of the course...

halawin123 07.01.2008 · Read review
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Review of Business & Management

NASTY BUSINESS!

Advantages: Compelling reading
Disadvantages: Some similarities to other novels by the author, strong language may offend some.

...Review of The Business, a hardback novel by Martina Cole The Business is Martina Cole's latest offering in a long line of best selling novels set against a backdrop of London's criminal underworld. For those unfamiliar with Ms Cole's books, she writes of subjects unsavoury, seedy and at times, uncomfortable. Nothing is taboo to Ms Cole and The Business covers violence, murder, prostitution, drug addiction, child abuse and neglect . Her writing style is gritty and she produces novels that are hauntingly readable. Readers are under no illusions about her characters and their lifestyles, a peep into a world very different from most people's reality, Ms Cole's books have the ability to shock, fascinate, touch and repulse me as the story unfolds! **The Plot** Covering period from 1978 to the present day, The Business follows...

brittle1906 16.01.2009 · Read review
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Review of The Business - Martina Cole

Change of Business?

Advantages: Another Book From Cole
Disadvantages: Not a great page turner

...Martina Cole - The Business?.. **The Book** Martina Cole's latest novel entitled "The Business" is yet another book filled with the gritty, hard hitting seediness that is the London underworld. We go back in time to the late 70's and meet the Dooley family. Gerald Dooley SNR, head of the house, Mary Dooley the mother of three children, two sons and a daughter, Imelda. Imelda is the main charter throughout the book as we follow her life, which is bad from start to finish. Imelda is trouble with a capital "T" and this is something that her family are soon to realise. Her sexually loose behaviour soon gets her with "a belly full of arms and legs" as Martina Cole so eloquently puts it, and this causes major friction within the family. Her father, Gerald SNR, cannot believe that his young and angelic daughter is already giving...

newby2 13.07.2009 · Read review
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Review of The Business - Martina Cole

Manages much better than I imagined it would

Advantages: funny
Disadvantages: acting

...Do you ever watch a film that you expect to be poor, but go into it with low expectations and come out happily surprised? Well, never was this more appropriate than with 'Management', the new rom-com from Jeniffer Aniston. The plot revolves around Sue a traveling sales-woman who stays in a remote motel run by a quirky family. The son in the family (Mike), takes a liking to Sue, and tries to chat her up during her stay. She guesses this, and just wanting to get rid of him, lets her feel his bum. This tips Mike over the edge, and he soon goes on a round the states road-trip to find her and woo her. This film is a mix of rom-com and wannabe 'Juno'-esque independent. The music and some of the plot is aiming for Sundance film festival, and noticeably so. Still, I quite liked it! The thing I liked about is the way it differs from your...

bruffyboy 25.09.2009 · Read review
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Review of Management

The Business

Advantages: Sunny
Disadvantages: Boring

...The Business is set in the 1980s and tells the story of a young man from London who goes to work in Spain. The film is set in the Costa del Sol, The acting, the storyline and the script in this film is not very good.. I might recommended this film for the soundtrack but not much else because it really isn't that good. I rented this film without the additional disc of extras so I can't really tell you anything about them. Even so, I wouldn't bother watching it if I were you. Running Time: 90 mins Director: Nick Love Producer: Allan Niblo, James Richardson Executive/Co-Producer: Rupert Preston Editor: Stuart Gazzard Screenwriter: Nick Love Director of Photography: Damian Bromley Sound: Simon Willis Cast: Danny Dyer, Tamer Hassan, Georgina Chapman, Geoff Bell...

Nazuku 15.07.2006 · Read review
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Review of The Business (DVD)

Managed to entertain me

Advantages: Some good acting,
Disadvantages: Felt cheap, some silly bits

...Sue Claussen works selling art, and everything is normal in her life when she checks into a motel one night. Unluckily for her, the night manager Mike spots Sue and decides to woo her with a bottle of champagne. Sue tries to spurn his advances, but ends up letting him get closer to her than she expected. When she obviously has to return home, Mike decides to follow Sue even though she makes it clear she's isn't interested and has a boyfriend of her own. Mike won't give up though, and despite some of his own personal troubles, goes about trying to win Sue over and make her love him back. Will the bumbling hotel manager win the rich art dealer's heart, or can't she look past appearances and job titles? This was another of my library spots and one I watched simply because it's got Jennifer Aniston in it as I think she's a pretty good...

mummy2harry 11.11.2009 · Read review
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Review of Management (DVD)

Management-Falls below the mark

Advantages: Steve Zahn's performance.Some funny parts
Disadvantages: nconsisntent,story is lost at times

...I didn't even hear about this till recently when I decided to give it a watch considering it was a romantic comedy.Directed by Stephen Belber and starring Jenifer Aninston and Steve Zahn,this film is rather slow for its genre. Sue(Aninston) is a travelling art seller and checks into a motel where the manager falls for her and comes up with new ideas to interact with her.Things take a twist when Sue allows her to grab her butt after he compliments her.The next morning, she ends up having sex with him before leaving the motel which makes it more complex. What she thought was a passing thing turned out to be more as Mike followed her and continued to keep in touch. The film takes place over the course of a few years as Mike keeps chasing her despite the presence of her boyfriend.Some scenes are really funny but the writing is weak...

aadnan613 03.11.2009 · Read review
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Review of Management

The Business Of Dying

Advantages: Gripping plot, fast paced story, great characters
Disadvantages: Can't think of any!

...I love reading but for some reason I don?t seem to have the time to read as much as I would like to so my recent holiday meant that I got some time to loose myself in a good book ? The Business Of Dying The Business of Dying is Simon Kernick?s first book. About The Author Simon Kernick was born 1966 in the town of Slough. After leaving school in the mid 1980s, he worked in a variety of jobs including bring a labourer on a road-building gang (until an industrial accident cut short a promising career); stockroom assistant for a major IT company and a fruit picker, He also spent several years living and travelling in Canada and the USA before returning to England via Australia and the Far East to complete his studies. Simon Kernick currently lives in Oxfordshire with his wife and two young daughters and is just about to start...

daylehall 05.07.2007 · Read review
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