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Thursday 16 September 2010

Nottingham Business School secures key Chinese partnerships

Chinese senior executives will be studying at Nottingham Business School

Nottingham Business School has concluded three new contracts with Chinese organisations in deals worth up to £600,000 per year, with a potential to bring in a total of approximately £3 million over three years.

A minimum of 15 senior executives from global communications companies, such as Motorola, will be undertaking a Doctorate of Business Administration (DBA) programme run by Nottingham Business School, part of Nottingham Trent University. The DBA at Nottingham Business School is designed for senior executives to apply the latest knowledge to their own organisations. It has been run with a variety of companies in up to ten countries across the globe. This is the third cohort of Motorola executives to study for a DBA with the School and a fourth group is currently being recruited for a 2011 start.

Nottingham Business School has also linked-up with training consultancy, Wunding Consulting (Shenzhen) Co Ltd, for the recruitment of senior executives from Chinese public sector to a Master of Public Administration (MPA) programme. This will bring senior government officials to Nottingham and will help to develop links between local and regional authorities in China and the UK.

A feeder agreement has also been agreed with the HND Centre at the School of International Education at Renmin University of China, one of the country's top universities. Nottingham Business School will be providing top-up courses for students from their Higher National Diploma (HND) centre. Students will enrol on programmes, such as International Business and Administration and Marketing Management to complement their studies in China. More than 40 applications have already been received.

Dr Weili Teng, who leads the University's MPA and DBA China programmes, said: "These are very important partnerships for us.  International relationships are a central part of the School and we're keen to build on our already strong links with China. We're looking forward to the opportunities that working with these key organisations will bring."

Last year, Nottingham Business School launched a joint Human Resource Management and Entrepreneurship research centre with the School of Management at Zhejiang University, one of China's top five universities. The School has also recently developed links with the School of Public Administration at Renmin University to develop a Masters of Public Administration (MPA) programme, and regularly hosts senior leaders from Chinese local government and state-owned enterprises such as China Telecommunication.