Salford Business School News and Events

A Nobel Peace Prize winner and ‘world’s banker to the poor’ will urge young people to use business for social and community benefit at a unique summit at the University of Salford this month.

Students at Salford Business School celebrated the success of a viral video marketing project recently at the headquarters of project partner, Morson International, in Salford.

The Premier League’s first chief executive will be giving the inside story of its foundation at the University of Salford next week.

Salford Business School has strengthened its senior management team with the appointment of two new members of staff in the key areas of enterprise and its Master of Business Administration (MBA) programme.

A University of Salford researcher has come up with a novel way of dealing with stretched resources caused by us all living longer – an interactive care robot for elderly people.

The University of Salford is supporting Global Entrepreneurship Week 2012 (12-18 November) by helping budding entrepreneurs get their business ideas off the ground with a series of workshops and talks.

The University of Salford has signed a partnership agreement with the Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service which, it is hoped, will lead to the development of projects such as, ground breaking virtual reality incident training and the provision of health and well being services for firefighters.

Duane Bryan, who appeared on BBC One’s The Apprentice this year, will be keynote speaker at the University of Salford's enterprise induction on Thursday, 27 September, which will showcase the enterprise initiatives available to students, staff and graduates.

The University of Salford is to work with the Association of Greater Manchester Authorities on a project which will find new ways to trace and communicate with the owners of 930 empty homes across the region.

Salford Business School has become the sixth British business school with Educational Planning and Assessment System (EPAS) accreditation.

The image of entrepreneurship given by TV shows like Dragons’ Den and The Apprentice is frequently misleading and putting some people off from starting their own business, according to research from Salford Business School.

The image of entrepreneurship given by TV shows like Dragons’ Den and The Apprentice is frequently misleading and putting some people off from starting their own business, according to research from Salford Business School.

While Team GB quite rightly celebrates its best Olympics performance since 1908, Russia and, most surprisingly, Australia are the other real winners at London 2012, outperforming both the United States and China when countries’ population, wealth and other key factors are considered.

More famous for trying to wipe out humanity (in science fiction at least), robots can in fact improve our quality of life considerably, according to a University of Salford researcher who’s been taking them on visits to old people’s homes.

Team GB is on course to win 56 medals at London 2012 – nine more than four years ago – according to the statisticians who most accurately forecast the final Olympics medal table for the Beijing Games in 2008.