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The UKs European university Directors Welcome / Cho m ng b n n v i KBS! 10 September 2018 KBS - Key Facts Established over 25 years ago Largest School with 2,300 students About 100 academic staff

  1. The UK’s European university Director’s Welcome / Chào m ừ ng b ạ n đ ế n v ớ i KBS! 10 September 2018

  2. KBS - Key Facts • Established over 25 years ago • Largest School with 2,300 students • About 100 academic staff – from over 21 nationalities: 52% are from outside the UK • 45 professional service staff (incl. part-time and placements) • Largest school with about 2,300 students from 84 countries • The Business School of the UK’s European University • Internationally in the Top 300 – out of 40,000 business schools worldwide (ARWU - business administration subject ranking) • In Europe rated top 50 for Teaching (THE) • Nationally in the Top 20 for combined excellence • Accreditation success: • AMBA reaccredited June 2018, AACSB coming March 2019, entered EQUIS process, hopefully in 2020/21, and SBC in October 2018 • Periodic Programme Review 2017, Successful QAA HE review 2015, internal Learning & Teaching review 2014

  3. UK Top 20 for combined excellence in research & teaching

  4. Our School Today

  5. Where we want to be: Aspirations for the future • Achieving international Research Expertise Map of KBS Faculty recognition as a School that • places innovation at its heart • in particular sustainability- driven innovation: • Delivering impact through research in partnership with businesses and organisations in the region and beyond: – already 10% of all Knowledge Transfer Partnerships in UK business schools run by KBS • Expanding our co-curricular offering through – ASPIRE Accelerator Space for Innovation and Responsible Enterprise , co-located with MBA Suite • Building up new expertise in the area of technology, innovation management and entrepreneurship: – Already more than 20% of research output published in innovation journals; with a further 1 in 3 outputs having a sustainability focus • Developing meaningful international partnerships – with a focus on likeminded school sharing a focus on innovation, sustainability and entrepreneurship. The UK’s European University Page 4

  6. Our Mission We are a research-intensive business school that produces rigorous and relevant knowledge which informs and impacts on the practice of management . Acting as an intellectual hub, we aim to develop innovative and sustainable approaches to management that address organisational and societal challenges. We are committed to developing employable, ethical and responsible graduates as well as managers and leaders who will make a difference .

  7. School of Sustainable Innovation • • Public Accountability Sustainable Sustainable Innovation Leadership • Impact of public sector • reforms Gender, Equality, and our Subject Diversity and Power • Talent management Groups • Organisational innovation • • Financial Crises and Innovation, Regulation entrepreneurship, “ To champion sustainable innovation through high- small business in a • Social Discounting global context quality research and education impacting business • Green Finance and society” • Social sustainability • Risk management Cross sectoral and forecasting partnerships in a global context • Outward investment • • Environmental Diffusion of social in Emerging and Sustainability: innovations in transforming Sustainable supply emerging economies economies, chains • Product/service • FDI, Knowledge • Agility, Productivity innovation in health, transfer and Efficiency food & energy sectors Page 7 The UK’s European University

  8. KBS Vision • We aspire to be a centre of internationally excellent and world-leading research and a place of transformational learning . • We are a research-intensive school that puts its students first , engages with the professions and plays a proactive role in the region. • We envisage KBS as an international school that attracts global talent and develops partnerships with leading international business schools . • We want to grow in size and calibre by extending our reach and by adding stakeholder value. Our strengths which set us apart from competitors are in employability and student experience . • We also have the potential to offer a unique experience capitalising on our location at the heart of Europe .

  9. KBS Values • Championing knowledge discovery and dissemination – by ensuring parity between teaching and research; • Creating real value for our students – by serving them in order to transform them into employable professionals and to enable them to grow as human beings; • Behaving always with honesty and integrity – by championing bold ideas, taking intelligent risks, accepting failures, being courageous, being culturally aware and striving for social justice; • Demanding quality as the standard and • Continually learning from and giving back to local, regional and global communities.

  10. Continuing the Journey • Our aspiration: • To become an internationally ranked business school (ARWU done, now QS & FT) • recognised for leadership in sustainable innovation in Europe • Triple accredited • Key member of a worldwide network of business schools that champion sustainability, innovation, entrepreneurship The UK’s European University Page 10

  11. THE UK’S EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY www.kent.ac.uk

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