How project-based learning can promote students’ critical thinking skills

Embedding project-based learning and participatory action research in degree courses and executive education can provide students with the critical thinking skills increasingly in high demand by employers. Projects or challenges ideally take the form of company-based challenges or company-based dissertations. With these challenges, a framework of learning outcomes addresses knowledge, skills and behaviours through project-based …

MBA focus: Business Practice Week

This blog is written by MBA student Neelu Malhotra, who reflects on her experiences of Business Practice Week last month.  With the MBA class of 2023 running well into its seventh week of classroom lectures, group discussions and various activities, the Business Practice Week (BPW) came in at a good time. We started our BPW …

Black History Month 2022 – Take Action and Change Your Future

As part of the University of Nottingham’s Black History Month programme, Professor Judy Muthuri and the team at Nottingham University Business School (NUBS) welcomed 50 local black school children from Y3-Y13 for a visit to Jubilee Campus on Wednesday 20 October. This half-day event was part of the widening participation agenda of the Business School, …