Birmingham City Business School is a school within
Birmingham City University
Birmingham City University (abbrev. BCU) is a university in Birmingham, England. Initially established as the Birmingham College of Art with roots dating back to 1843, it was designated as a polytechnic (United Kingdom), polytechnic in 1971 and gai ...
based on the university's City Centre campus in
Birmingham
Birmingham ( ) is a city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England. It is the second-largest city in the United Kingdom with a population of 1.145 million in the city proper, 2.92 million in the West ...
. It is part of the Faculty of Business, Law and Social Sciences.
The Business School offers courses in Accountancy, Advertising, Business, Business Law, Business Information Technology, Business Psychology, Economics, Finance, Human Resource Management, Information Communication Technology, Management, Marketing, Multimedia Development, Public Relations and Software Engineering. It formerly offered courses in Computing, although these are now part of the university's
Faculty of Technology, Engineering and the Environment.
The
Association of Chartered Certified Accountants
Founded in 1904, the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) is the global professional accounting body offering the Chartered Certified Accountant qualification (ACCA). It has 240,952 members and 541,930 future members worldwid ...
has awarded Birmingham City University Business School Platinum Level Status for its training until 2010. This means that their ACCA courses are delivered to the highest possible level according to industry standards.
The Business School was the first place to publicise
contract cheating
Contract cheating is a form of academic dishonesty in which students pay others to complete their coursework. The term was coined in a 2006 study by Thomas Lancaster and the late Robert Clarke (UK),Glendinning, I., Foltýnek, T., Dlabolová, D., Li ...
, where students put work out to tender and suppliers bid to produce work for those students.
Structure
The Business School incorporates three academic departments and two specialist centres:
* Department of Accountancy and Finance
* Department of Business and Marketing
* Department of Management and Human Resources
* Centre for Leadership and Management Practice
* Centre for Internal Audit, Governance and Risk Management
See also
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Education in Birmingham
This article is about education in Birmingham, England.
Primary and secondary education State schools
As in the rest of England and Wales, education is compulsory in Birmingham between the ages of 5 and 16. The majority of children are educated ...
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Business School
A business school is a university-level institution that confers degrees in business administration or management. A business school may also be referred to as school of management, management school, school of business administration, o ...
Accounting schools in the United Kingdom
Business schools in England
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