Birmingham Graduate School: Where You Are versus Where You Want To Be!

Would you like to know the secret of how to be where you want to be rather than where you are? Birmingham Graduate School has the answer.

Where do you want to be in five years’ time? In a higher paid job? How about in ten, or even twenty years? Questions like these don’t usually have specific answers; people often answer them with a dream. In order to turn a dream into an achievable goal, one needs to avoid distraction with specificity.

So how can you avoid distraction from your goals? By setting SMART goals: Specific, Measureable, Achievable, Realistic, Time-bound goals.

There are three steps to creating a SMART goal:

1. List financial goals

When you write down a financial dream, it stops being an abstract thought and becomes concrete. For example if the goal was, ‘I want a better job’, writing this down will force you to consider the specifics of this goal and how to achieve it.

2. Categorise and prioritise goals

Categorisation: If the goal can be achieved in fewer than three years, it is considered a short-term goal. If it will take 4-7 years, it is a mid-term goal and if it will take longer than 7 years it is a long-term goal. This categorisation will help you to create an achievable plan for the future.

Prioritisation: Some goals are clearly more important than others. If two of your goals are: ‘to go on a cruise holiday’ and ‘to get a better salary’, to go on a cruise will have a lower priority. This again, will help you to make a long-term plan and to know which goals can take a backseat if finances are temporarily reduced.

3. Target date

Finally, setting a target date is very important. It allows for proper planning and for financial preparedness. Setting a target date influences thought processes, a psychological countdown begins.

Birmingham Graduate School can help you achieve these goals. Whether it is to get a better salary or more work satisfaction: an MBA with Birmingham Graduate School will help you to climb the career ladder and get the job you deserve.

For more details:

Please visit: http://www.bgschool.org.uk

Got your A-Levels? Get started and have an MBA in 3 years without debt..

Whether you’ve just finished your A-levels or are working full time, you can complete and a achieve a fully credited MBA with Birmingham Graduate School. You can even keep your job while you study. Our unique multiple-entry level system allows for greater accessibility, so no matter what your current situation, you too can get involved.

MBA Birmingham

Got your A-Levels

Get started and have an MBA in 3 years

Already got a HND

No problem, join us at Level 2 and have your MBA in 18 months

Got a Degree or Working full time

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Maximum cost £15,000 for full three year course

+ Bursaries available

+ Apply now and cover 50% of your fee - pay only £2500 per year.

Other MBAs - Birmingham University

Due to the hike in tuition fees during 2012, studying to get your degree and MBA at University has never been more expensive. Average costs can total up to a whopping £45,000, not to mention 4 years of your life. That’s a debt you’ll be living with for a long time. Below are sample fees for studying a degree followed by an MBA at Birmingham University.

What’s the catch ?

No catch. Here at BGS we believe it is very important that all talented individuals get the recognition and the opportunities they deserve. An MBA for you is good business for the whole country.

Quality Assured

All of our course leaders and lecturers are leading university professors with long serving backgrounds in their respective industries and business. With their wealth of knowledge and expertise, they offer our students excellent support and education to set them up for their future careers.

Stamp of Approval

Our courses are accredited by the University of Wales, so you can rest assured knowing that your MBA is going to pave the way towards your chosen field of expertise and that all-important dream job.

Bursary Scheme - Get 50% off your fee

To apply for our bursary scheme, please contact us on: 0121 222 6868 or contact@bgschool.org.uk, so that one of our admissions team members will get back to you as soon as possible.

Please note the entry is subject to approval of the awarding bodies.For more details;

http://www.bgschool.org.uk

University tuition fees it is suspected that a record number of students will miss out on a place at University this year

Struggling to get a place at University?
Birmingham Graduate School can help you in achieving your dreams and goals.

With the increase in University tuition fees it is suspected that a record number of students will miss out on a place at University this year due to a rush to obtain a place before these increases take effect in 2012.

The media have published many articles throughout this year reporting the alarming numbers of students will be affected:

“Around 200,000 people will miss out on places at UK universities this year, the highest number on record.” August 2011

“Tuition fee rise: one in three will miss out in rush for university” January 2011

Such articles show how the increase of tuition fees in the UK is already affecting prospective students. With the limitation on seats available and the increasing cost of attending Universities, we at BGS offer students a lifeline to still be able to study their degrees at a much reduced cost.

This allows students to take full opportunity of receiving University standard teaching, delivered by our University Professors without having the difficult task of desperately trying to obtain one of those limited seats through clearing this year or worrying about the increasing amounts of debt incurred by attending a University next year.

TRIBUTE TO STEVE JOBS. R.I.P - The Innovative Genius

TRIBUTE TO STEVE JOBS. R.I.P - The Innovative Genius












On October 5th 2011, Steve Jobs died after many years of illness but true to form he was working on new developments for the iPod, iPad, iPhone and Macbooks until the last.

His quest to improve the world dates back to his ‘wilderness time’ when he was a hippie and university drop-out who experimented with alternative ways of living (in a commune with everything owned in common) and sought enlightenment from Eastern gurus. It was at that point that it had suddenly occurred to him that,

“……..maybe Thomas Edison did a lot more to improve the world than Karl Marx and Neem Kairolie Baba put together.”(Quoted in Michael Moritz’s The Little Kingdom)

The man who has changed communication and leisure in ways that would have been inconceivable twenty years ago, did not have the best start in life. His single mother had him adopted, so he was brought up by uneducated but loving parents who enjoyed only a modest income. At school he was troublesome although acknowledged as clever and innovative. The ‘square peg’ got bullied in his teens so his doting parents moved to another city then spent their life savings on his college education. However, he ‘dropped out’ anyway.

It was his father that fostered his early interest in electronics by buying him ‘Heathkits’ which allowed the young Steve to build simple machines. The resultant sense of accomplishment and confidence gained by making things that work developed his ‘can do’ attitude that characterised his attitude towards life and business. This coupled with self-discipline exemplified by periodic self-imposed ‘fasting’ created an individual who had vision and craved perfection.

What can we learn from Jobs life?

It’s all right to think differently but remain self- critical. Follow through with your ideas even if you are ridiculed or opposed. As well as this, don’t take ‘no’ for an answer or compromise on quality. Perfection can only be achieved through dedication to your craft.

Are you entrepreneurial, thinking of starting a business?

MBA for Entrepreneurs at Birmingham Graduate School, Birmingham, UK

Have you considered developing yourself academically with a Masters of Business Administration in Management to give yourself the grounding of knowledge to start your own business?

We are currently offering an MBA in International Management with the added opportunity to develop a business idea and get your business off the ground while you study. Our Business Incubation Centre offers students the opportunity to take space for a period of six months, to put into practice the concepts and learning from the classroom and launch a business with the full support of a personal mentor. We offer five fully funded spaces per intake to those students who achieve academic excellence and achieve a prestigious place on the Dean’s list.

As an extra limited time offer, we are offering fifteen fully funded spaces in our Incubation Centre for our January batch. These spaces will be for those students who are deemed by our panel of academics and business experts to have the most innovative business plan.

Our Incubation Centre offers students an office space with use of phones, internet, conferencing facilities and meeting rooms. With the added advantage of having a dedicated mentor, accounts support, website design, ongoing IT support and legal advice.

Fees matters:

Master of Business Administration Tuition fees: £5950

Space at Incubation Centre: £350 p/m

(Incubation Centre costs includes: phone line, internet facilities, website design, ongoing IT support, personal mentor and legal advice)

For more details about our MBA programmes, please visit here: BGS MBA Programmes

Become what you want to be with "BGS's International MBA"

Become what you want to be with "BGS's International MBA"

“If you see a difference between where you are and where you want to be -
consciously change your thoughts, words, and actions to match your grandest vision.”

- Neale Donald Walsch

Find out what is all about, Please visit at: http://www.bgschool.org.uk

IELTS course at Birmingham Graduate School

Launching a 24 hour Preparatory IELTS course at BGS

Birmingham Graduate School is proud to announce the launch of a 24 hour
Preparatory IELTS course.

Duration: 4 weeks - Wednesdays 9am-4pm.
Cost: £250 per person including materials.
BGS School of English is offering intensive training for the IELTS exam.

For more details please contact the Head of the School of English.
E-mail: fiona@bgschool.org.uk or Telephone: 0121 476 4899