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MBA Degree Apprenticeship

Manchester MetropolitanUniversity

Thank you for your interest in our MBA Degree Apprenticeship.

The MBA at the heart of our programme is accredited by the Association of MBAs (AMBA). It is delivered by industry practitioners and underpinned by research, and has been designed to fit around what we know will already be a busy working life and schedule.

It will challenge and develop, bring real insights that can be applied to current roles and organisations, and will connect people with a strong and supportive professional network. Please do get in touch with us to find out more and you will find our contact details at the back of this brochure.

WelcomeAACSB - the hallmark of excellence in business education

AACSB accreditation is an internationally recognised and prestigious hallmark that accredits the top tier of global business schools.

Awarded to Manchester Met in 2016, the accreditation demonstrates that the Business School has achieved the hallmark of excellence in 15 global standards, placing it among the world’s elite for its degree programmes, research, business engagement and innovation.

The standards of education delivered at Manchester Met Business School have been rigorously assessed, approved and accredited by AACSB International.

Dr Sara WardHead of Executive Education

Important noticeThis brochure was developed in November 2017. The information therefore reflects the programme as it is at this time. This brochure is intended to provide an overview of our courses and the Faculty of Business and Law.

AMBA – the seal of approval

The MBA is now the most widely recognised general management qualification in the world. Our MBA programme is accredited by the Association of MBAs (AMBA) – a significant benchmark of quality awarded to just 47 of the 120 MBA programmes available in Britain.

Dr Dane AndertonDirector of MBA Apprenticeship Programme

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Contents

Introductions 2 – 5

Manchester Metropolitan University

Faculty of Business and Law

Our credentials 6 – 13

Outstanding learning and teaching facilities

Business knowledge with research strength

Business and international links

Benefits

Course in detail 12 – 13

Course structure

Unit Descriptions

Application Information 14 – 16

How to apply

Funding

Contact details

Welcome to the Faculty of Business and Law at Manchester Metropolitan University. Home to a diverse community of over 9,500 students and degree apprentices, and one of the largest faculties of its kind in the UK.

The Faculty has been supporting industry and commerce in the city since 1889 and today’s modern, full-range faculty offers undergraduate, postgraduate and higher research degrees in all the major sub-disciplines of business, management and law.

We are the home of Mancester Metropolitan’s Degree Apprenticeship programmes and received a commendation at the 2016 Times Higher Education Awards for our pioneering approach to their development and delivery.

We are a Faculty that is exemplified by our academic scholarship and professional recognition, with research respected for its relevance and impact to organisations and society. In this way, we ensure that research firmly underpins the curriculum, and our strong external focus certifies that the research we do is transferable and is able to support industry and commerce as well as inform public policy.

We look forward to welcoming MBA Degree Apprenticeship students to the Faculty.

Professor Julia Clarke Faculty Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Business and Law

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Manchester Met Business School

Our award-winning Business School, and landmark building, is located in the heart of Manchester. We are part of an elite group of AACSB-accredited global business schools that also hold the coveted AMBA accreditation for their MBA programmes and were ‘Highly Commended’ at the 2016 Times Higher Education Awards for degree apprenticeship development and delivery.

Industry speakersIt is essential for any MBA to be rooted in the business community. We invite high-level guest speakers to discuss pertinent strategic and operational issues from a range of organisations including multinationals, SMEs and entrepreneurial start-ups.

Our MBA students have automatic student/affiliate membership of the Chartered Management Institute (CMI). MBA graduates are also guaranteed full membership of the Institute upon completion without any further assessment.

Manchester Metropolitan University is one of the UK’s leading providers of management degree apprenticeships, creating industry-relevant programmes that are designed in close collaboration with employers.

The MBA Degree Apprenticeship is an engaging, high-level management programme designed to provide the skills and knowledge to ambitious business professionals.

Aligned to the Level 7 Senior Leader apprenticeship standard, developed by the CMI, the University and a group of 30 leading employers, the programme will embed strategic business capabilities within our partner employers and help them to develop and retain talented leaders.

The MBA Degree Apprenticeship can accelerate career development and enhance organisational performance by expanding knowledge and understanding of strategic management, finance, marketing, human resource management and international business.

The programme combines face to face learning blocks with online support systems and gives participants access to some of the country’s leading academic professionals. The taught units are complemented by behaviour building residential weekends, one to one business coaching and masterclasses delivered by industry experts.

The MBA Degree Apprenticeship is a programme that will stretch and challenge participants and help them to develop a new way of thinking about strategic challenges and the opportunities presented by a globalising world economy.

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“ All face to face MBA

Degree Apprenticeship

sessions will take

place in a dedicated

executive education

facility in the heart of

Manchester. ”

Outstanding learning and teachingThe United Kingdom has long held a reputation for producing and nurturing some of the world’s best business brains and dynamic entrepreneurs. We are proud to be supporting the next generation through our MBA Degree Apprenticeship.

Executive Business Coaching

• Coaching is a valued approach to individual development and is becoming a well-established practice in business to enhance leadership and business practice. As a result, participants have access to a professional leadership/ business coach throughout the programme. One-to-one coaching focuses on personal development and maximising organisational impact.

MBA teaching team

• Each MBA unit (module) has a dedicated teaching team who blend understanding of the latest business research and management models with examples of how they can be applied to the workplace. All of our staff have been business practitioners and many still provide consultancy services.

• Our staff are available at mutually convenient times for one-to-one advice about assignments. They are also available via email and phone so you can contact them when you need to, wherever you are.

Management development residentials

• Early in the programme a three-day residential takes place. This enables participants to achieve a number of learning objectives, get involved in team building opportunities, find out more about their studies and meet fellow learners.

• A second, more reflective residential weekend takes place in year two. This focuses on challenging strategic business perspectives through a business simulation exercise and incorporates elements of experiential learning.

Online study environment

• Our programme is designed to support learners who live and work outside of the North West. Study materials can be accessed 24/7 via our online study environment, Moodle. It enables participants to access reading lists, download journal articles, contribute to online discussion groups, email tutors, view podcasts and submit assignments.

University library

• The main University Library is located on the All Saints Campus and it is open 24/7 for the academic year.

• The Library provides access to a wide range of books, texts, journals and business information and statistics. It also runs a number of workshops for mature students on study and research skills.

• Many of the Library’s resources are available online. For example, you can search the library catalogue, renew and reserve books and download journal articles and research information.

Dedicated Support Officer

• The University has a dedicated support officer for degree apprenticeships, who is available to support with academic skills and provide referrals to other support services.

Dr Jonathan Mildenhall, Manchester Met Business School alumni, is currently the Chief Marketing Officer for AirBnB and delivered the Alan Pulford Memorial Lecture, which was a joint event with the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) and the Business School.


Business knowledge with research strengthAn active research community ensures the teaching of our MBA Degree Apprenticeship is academically-rigorous and industry-relevant. Our research reflects our international outlook and is focused on enhancing the contribution of research to the practice of management. Business and Management research is coordinated through six specialist centres.

Centre for Enterprise

Our dedicated Centre for Enterprise (CfE) has worked with over 2,000 business people and SMEs. It leads on the creation, co-creation and transfer of knowledge to develop enterprise and entrepreneurship capability in business and the social economy. A particular feature of CfE research has been its application, with around £9 million generated in recent years for research related and research informed enterprise activities.

Centre for International Business and Innovation

The Centre for International Business and Innovation (CIBI) brings together recognised scholars in international business, international political economy and innovation studies in a dedicated research centre. CIBI research income has helped to fund many publications in leading international journals. The Centre receives significant amounts of research income from several leading European institutions, for example the Norwegian Ministry for Foreign Affairs, the European Commission 7th Framework and the ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council).

Centre for People and Performance

The Centre for People and Performance conducts independent research in partnership with a wide range of organisations, to explore the challenges of managing, leading and developing people to create sustainable high-performing organisations. The Centre delivers tailor-made solutions to organisational and sector-specific challenges and issues for a range of private and public sector clients and policy-makers.

Centre for Policy Modelling

The Centre for Policy Modelling employs new forms of computer simulations to forecast economic and social phenomena. In recent years, income from grants awarded includes: £684,000 received from the EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Science Research Council) to fund research into the social complexity of immigration and diversity.

Institute of Place Management

The Institute of Place Management is the international professional body that supports people committed to developing, managing and making places better. Developed by Manchester Met and the Association of Town Centre Management in the UK, the Institute recognised the need to create a professional body capable of developing and supporting the creation of sustainable formal structures of place management, ensuring professional standards amongst all those involved in the management, development and marketing of places.

Sylvia Pankhurst Gender Research Centre

The Sylvia Pankhurst Gender Research Centre is an interfaculty group which explores contemporary issues linked to gender and develops collaborative interdisciplinary research proposals.

Lord Mandelson, our Chancellor, acts as the most senior ambassador and ceremonial head of the University, promoting its mission, vision and values. Peter supports the efforts of the University to be world-class providers of education and research, and to work in partnership with businesses and the public sector.


Sustaining competitive advantage

• Organisations that are striving for sustainable competitive advantage are continuously analysing their own productivity, strategies and practices to ensure continuous development of the business.

• Success is often measured with a balanced scorecard approach. Not only appraising the financial results but balancing this with the customer perspective of the company, the views of internal stakeholders and the importance of driving innovation and learning in order to continuously develop.

Continuous learning & development

• Without exception, successful organisations will acknowledge that continuous learning and development is beneficial to both individuals and the organisation, as evidenced in the numerous CPD schemes and programmes they invest in.

Improved employee engagement and retention

• As the MBA participant is an employee, the programme offers the opportunity for assignments to be based on current organisational issues. Relevant concepts and theories can then be applied to, for example, the areas of Human Resource Management, Finance or Operations Management.

• This formal learning is combined with informal activities including management development weekends and complimentary access to masterclasses with world-renowned speakers. These activites are integral to successful completion of the portfolio and prepares participants to demonstrate the skills and behaviours required to achieve the end-point assessment.

Leveraging the dissertation to benefit your business

• The final element of the MBA is the dissertation, which can take the form of a consultancy project. This is based on resolving robust issues within the particpant’s own organisation.

• This is where a tangible return on investment is most visible with businesses acquiring new innovative solutions from within their own workforce, without the cost or necessity of outside consultants.

• This will be a capability that can be utilsied time and again, adding long-term business value.

Building future leaders

• This aspect of the programme develops the individual’s competencies and leadership skills, which ultimately equip the organisation with more confident, competent and broader-minded managers who can lead teams more proficiently.

Professional membership

• Each student receives complimentary membership of business networks (AMBA and CMI) enabling them to develop links with decision-makers within other organisations.

Alumni Relations

• On completion of the programme graduates will become a member of our Alumni Association which will continue to offer opportunities for continuous learning and networking as well as entitlement to a range of alumni benefits.

BenefitsAn MBA is an internationally-recognised strategic leadership award and acknowledged as the gold standard for senior and director-level executive education.

“We would strongly encourage the development of a robust business

case to outline how you will maximise return on investment of the time and investment of undertaking the MBA

Degree Apprenticeship.”10 | Manchester Met MBA

Dr Dave Chaffey, Honorary Practitioner in Digital Marketing for the Faculty of Business and Law. He is recognised as one of the 50 marketing ‘gurus’ worldwide and his clients include Barclaycard, HSBC, Mercedes-Benz and Nokia.

Master of Business Administration


Studying for the MBA Degree ApprenticeshipAt Manchester Met, our MBA Degree Apprenticeship programme will provide participants with the knowledge and skills to move to the next level of their business career. Our engaging course can be tailored to suit individuals goals, with flexible assessments and an in-depth negotiated dissertation.

Our MBA programme is AMBA-accredited, an internationally-recognised classification. The programme provides the commercial and personal knowledge to support particpants to achieve enhanced career progression, and drive strategic innovation and change.

The MBA Degree Apprenticeship is a great opportunity for aspirational senior managers to push themselves to the next level with Manchester Met.

How does it work?

The course is taught over 24 months.

Each unit is delivered in a three-day block on campus. During these three-day blocks participants will benefit from the latest academic and practitioner thinking presented by University staff and industry guest speakers and masterclasses. In addition to the taught element of the programme, there are two residential weekends over the two years and an optional international study tour (not eligible for apprenticeship funding).

You will be allocated an executive business coach and receive six sessions throughout the programme.

Manchester Met MBA

Units may include

Year 1Masters Business Portfolio (15 credits)

Reflective Personal Leadership (15 credits)

Leading, Managing & Developing People (15 credits)

Operations Management (15 credits)

Strategic Marketing (15 credits)

Year 2Accounting & Finance Management (15 credits)

Global Economic Environment (15 credits)

Strategic Management (15 credits)

Executive Business Project (60 credits)

Assessment

The assessment for each unit is designed to enable participants to apply the academic theory to their own organisation and role. Participants are also encouraged to conduct research into their organisation, so that they can contextualise their learning in the classroom.

The MBA Degree Apprenticeship incudes a range of assessment types, from essays to group or individual presentations, and business reports.

For the most up to date descriptions of the units of study, please refer to our website: www.mmu.ac.uk/apprenticeships

“ Formal learning is combined with informal activities including

management development weekends and access to masterclasses with

world-renowned speakers. ”12 | Manchester Met MBA

Ian KendallHead of Infotainment at Bentley Motors in Crewe.

Ian Kendall completed his MBA in 2011 and believes that it has helped him to understand and exploit new markets for Bentley. His dissertation, based on customer experience, has allowed him to make sense of what needs to be done now and in the future to maximise his company’s international reach.

Although Ian had several years’ experience in business, he was concerned that he might be too inexperienced for the course, and that all of his counterparts would be chief executives. “Thankfully it wasn’t like that. We were all at around the same level but also from such diverse backgrounds. Learning from contemporaries was as important as learning from the Business School’s staff.”

Felicity SaundersSenior National Account Manager for Kellogg’s and was promoted three times during her MBA studies.

My assignments were based on real work situations, and my coursework and research has fed into changes about how we carry out forecasting and the implementation of new, lean manufacturing processes.

My coursework also gave me a fuller understanding of work-related processes, so much so that I’m now a sustainability champion in my department; a direct result of my learning on the MBA.

Masters Business Portfolio

This blended unit will ensure that participants capture the knowledge, skills and behaviours developed on the programme in a single cumulative portfolio directly contributing to the End Point Assessment. Commencing from day one and running throughout the programme, this unit enables participants to reflect, plan and evaluate their development. A university team member will also conduct periodic visits to the student in their workplace to assess how they are applying their personal and academic learning to their job role.

Executive Business Project’

The MBA Executive Business Project will deliver a substantial piece of work of approximately 15,000 words that aligns to the particular business context of each participant.

The project will address a business issue agreed between the apprentice, the manger/mentor and a University tutor, and retains significant flexibility to be tailored to an area of strategic importance. The report should be holistic in nature and call upon the theories explored within the other units of the programme and cover all the stages of a project from scoping right through to evaluation. Each student is supported by a university supervisor, who will be able to provide academic guidance throughout their project.

End Point Assessment

The End Point Assessment for the programme will include the presentation of the dissertation and an independent professional discussion to review the completed portfolio.


Application information

Entry requirementsThe course is designed with professionals in mind, and this is reflected in our entry requirements. All applicants for the MBA Degree Apprenticeship need to be employed with a supporting organisation in order to be eligible.

We welcome applicants who meet the criteria outlined below:

Entry Criteria 1

• At least 3 years management experience

• A good degree (minimum 2:2) in any subject from a recognised University

• An equivalent academic or professional qualification

Or

Entry Criteria 2

There are a limited number of places for people without a university degree. We may also consider candidates with:

• Significant management experience (ideally 10 years plus)

• A substantial record of achievement in business and leadership

and

Entry Criteria 3

All applicants for the MBA Degree Apprenticeship need to be employed by an organisation who has confirmed they will support their participation in the programme.

Supporting references

We ask applicants to provide at least one employer reference to support their application covering the last three years. Additional employer references or personal references can be provided to support the application.

Level 2 English and Maths requirements

All applicants for the MBA Degree Apprenticeship must be able to evidence GCSE English Language and Maths passes at Grade A*-C or commit to completing Functional Skills Level 2, in addition to the programme. This is provided at no additional cost.

How to applyAn employer must confirm to the University that they will be supporting a colleague on the programme before an application is started. Please contact us using the details on the back cover.

Once an employer has confirmed their support, we will issue an application pack to interested applicants that includes the necessary forms and guidance.

The application form enables us to build up a picture of the candidate, their experience and the knowledge and skill areas they are looking to develop.

We recommend that a CV is included, with a complete work history, as part of the application and that the personal statement is used to highlight management strengths and work achievements.

Interview

As part of the application process we endeavour to meet all candidates. Where possible, this will take place in person but if they are unable to attend, we can rrange for this to take place via Skype or telephone.

The purpose of this meeting is to find out more about their work experience, current training and qualifications, and motivations for doing an MBA. This is an informal discussion and is a great opportunity to ask any questions about the course.


“ We are a Business School that engages with companies, employers and the public sector. ”

Programme Includes• All University Tuition fees

• End-Point Assessment Fees

• Six sessions with an allocated Executive Business Coach

• Ongoing support from a dedicated Student Support Officer

FundingThe amount of funding you will be eligible to receive is dependent on the size of your company’s payroll (PAYE). There is one system for smaller businesses, with a wage bill below £3 million, and a different system, the Apprenticeship Levy, for organisations with a wage bill above £3 million.

Yes No

Is your organisations payroll in excess of

£3 million?

100% from employer levy funds, or 5% from

employer and 95% from government if

insufficient levy funds available

5% from employer and 95% from government

Levy Payer Non-Levy Payer

MBA Degree Apprenticeship Contact Apprenticeship Unit Telephone: +44 (0) 161 247 3919Email: [email protected]

www.mmu.ac.uk/apprenticeships

@MBAMMU @MMUApprentice

November 2017

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Manchester Metropolitan University Business SchoolAll Saints CampusOxford RoadManchesterM15 6BH

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