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Friday 19 August 2005
Prize ceremony for top business students
A total of 14 companies sponsored 38 prize-winners as part of Nottingham Business School’s annual prize ceremony. The Nottingham Trent University business school graduates were rewarded for the quality of their work on a range of undergraduate degree courses.
Among the prize winners were Business and Quality Management graduate Dion Lucre, who won the Capita Symonds Prize for Best Dissertation, and Business Studies graduate Amy Williamson, who won the Nottinghamshire Chamber of Commerce and Industry Prize for Best Overall Performance by a Final-Year Student (full list of winners see below).
The Head of Undergraduate Programmes at Nottingham Trent University, Robert Graves, said: “The purpose of the event was to recognise and celebrate the hard work, dedication and excellent performance of just some of the Business School’s students and graduands.”
Business Management students are class act
The Business School ceremony was followed by a separate award ceremony for the BA (Hons) Business Management (In-Company) graduates. The BA (Hons) Business Management degree focuses on work-based learning, with a two-year placement, and has been developed in partnership with a number of businesses.
This year saw 14 students graduate, one with first class honours and the rest with upper second class honours – the first year that 2:1s or above have been achieved across the board.
Claire Doughty was the most successful of the prize winners, taking three awards – the British Sugar Award for Best Dissertation, the Rolls-Royce Award for Best Overall Performance and the Student Award for Performance which was voted for by her peers.
Kevin Baldwin shared the Award for Best Dissertation with Claire, Chris Haniff won the Brian Jukes Memorial Award for Most Improved Performance and Laura Hollingworth took the Lloyds TSB Bank Award for Most Improved Performance in Skills/Reflective Assessments. Kari Williams won the Toyota Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Workplace.
Claire said: “I am thrilled to bits, winning these awards has been the icing on the cake. I am so pleased about winning the Student Award for Performance. I have already added the awards to my CV, although I have a graduate management role arranged at Volkswagen Group UK Ltd starting from September.”
The BA (Hons) Business Management Programme Director, Vanessa Knowles, said: “The partnership approach on which this course is based becomes clearly evident at graduation, with a wide range of prizes donated by the companies that sponsor the programme in years two and three. It is our strong links and relationships with these companies that enables the delivery of this unique course and supports its ongoing success.”
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Notes for editors: The award winners for the Nottingham Business School Prize Ceremony are as follows –
Prize Winners: Philip Bennett (Trent Barton Quality Prize for Best Overall Performance by a Final Year Student; BA (Hons) Business and Quality Management); Simon Bradley (Your People Financial Recruitment Prize for Best Overall Performance in Management Accounting by a Final Year Student; BA (Hons) Accounting and Finance); Joanne Durkin (HSBC Bank Plc Strategy Award for Best Strategy Article by Student in Final Year; BA (Hons) Business and Financial Services); Laura Emery (NTU Research Observatory Prize for Best Overall Performance by Final Year Student on an Economics Degree Course); Pietro Fabbri (The Vice-Chancellor’s Trust Fund Award 2005); Paul Gowdridge (Next Plc. Prize for Most Innovative Dissertation by Final Year Student; BA (Hons) Accounting and Finance); Ian James (The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants Prize for Best Performance in Financial Reporting by Second Year Student; BA (Hons) Accounting and Finance); Dion Lucre (Capita Symonds Prize for Best Dissertation; BA (Hons) Business and Quality Management); Hayden MacMillan (Beeley Hawley & Company Prize for Best Performance by First Year Student; BA (Hons) Accounting and Finance); Rashmi Patel (Chartered Institute of Management Accountants Prize for Best Overall Performance by Second Year Student; BA (Hons) Accounting and Finance); Dean Preston (The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants Prize for Best Performance in Business Finance by Second Year Student; BA (Hons) Accounting and Finance); James Richardson and Richard Haywood (Siemens Quality Prize for Best Overall Performances in all Quality Modules by Final Year Student; BA (Hons) Business and Quality Management); Yaroslav Roshchin (NBS Prize for Best Dissertation and Overall Performance by Final Year NBS Undergraduate Student); Peter Sham (Catalyst Corporate Finance Prize for First Year Student Performing Most Effectively in Management Accounting); John Simpson (PKF Prize in Memory of Shaun Hynes for Best Overall Performance by Final Year Student; BA (Hons) Accounting and Finance); Kirsty Wadsley (Widening Participation Prize 2005 for Best Overall Performance by a Final Year Compact Scheme Student); Amy Williamson (Nottinghamshire Chamber of Commerce and Industry Prize for Best Overall Performance by Final Year Student; BA (Hons) Business Studies);
Anthony Dean, Kelly Eames, Frances Congdon, Ryan Ellen (Fascia Mania Prize in Respect of Design Awareness Component of
BPB UK prizes for presentations at the Issues in Information Systems Conference 2005: William D’Arcy, Zalkifl Ghanty, Charles Lawuyi, Andrew Lee (RFID: Assessing the Validity of Media Forecasts); Simon Connors, Chris Reed, Amar Sachdev, Nick Sawczuk (Utilisation of Small Medium Enterprises Groupware Systems); Kevin Lee, Robert Lightowlers, Jon Matthews, Dominic Trott (Expectations and Investment in End User Support); Ray Steels, Paul Jones, Mark Ward, Kate Sowerby (BPB UK Prize for Best Information Systems Development Project 2005)
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