{"id":63335,"date":"2020-01-16T14:09:56","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T19:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=63335"},"modified":"2020-01-17T13:26:11","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T18:26:11","slug":"new-partnership-expands-business-program-to-the-united-kingdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2020\/01\/new-partnership-expands-business-program-to-the-united-kingdom\/","title":{"rendered":"New partnership expands Business program to the United Kingdom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brock University Business students now have the opportunity to study and work in the United Kingdom thanks to a new partnership with Lancaster University.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement allows students from the <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/goodman\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Goodman School of Business<\/a> to study at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/lums\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lancaster University Management School<\/a> (LUMS) as part of Goodman\u2019s Bachelor of Business Administration Co-op International Double Degree program.<\/p>\n<p>Lancaster joins Reutlingen University and EBS Business School in Germany, NEOMA Business School in France and Dublin City University Business School in Ireland as partners in the program, which offers undergraduate students the chance to study and work abroad and earn degrees from two universities for the price of tuition at Brock.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGoodman is thrilled to expand our portfolio of double degree schools to include Lancaster University,\u201d said Goodman Dean Andrew Gaudes. \u201cThe Lancaster University Management School is highly respected and is in great alignment with the programs that Goodman offers in terms of our shared values of corporate social responsibility and commitment to global engagement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Students starting Goodman\u2019s double degree program in September will be the first cohort to choose Lancaster as their preferred international university and will attend in their third year of study after two full years at Brock. The program includes two years of study at each university and a co-op placement in both Canada and the U.K.<\/p>\n<p>Lancaster is known for its strong international connections, being recently recognized as International University of the Year by The Times and The Sunday Times 2020 Good University Guide.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLancaster University Management School is delighted to announce a new and exciting pathway for our International Business Management dual degree programme in partnership with Brock\u2019s top-ranked Goodman School of Business,\u201d said Lancaster Double Degree Program Director Kostas Amiridis. \u201cThis collaboration will offer an opportunity for prospective students to study and practice business and management in a truly international and multicultural environment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Both Brock and Lancaster are members of the <a href=\"https:\/\/ipbs-network.org\/about-ipbs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">International Partnership of Business Schools<\/a>, a network of 13 partner schools that promotes language and cultural fluency alongside business aptitude through double degree programs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWelcoming these top students from our partner schools into Goodman classrooms adds a diverse and important international perspective,\u201d said Gaudes. \u201cThe program benefits our students studying both at Brock and abroad.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brock University Business students now have the opportunity to study and work in the United Kingdom thanks to a new partnership with Lancaster University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":63336,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39,1,4],"tags":[8584,159,7791,594,6637,8582,8583],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63335"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63335"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63355,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63335\/revisions\/63355"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}