Reintegration Meeting for IM and IMABS Students

Wednesday 30 September 2015

Dr Jiajia Liu – IM/IMABS Programme DirectorScott Foley - Careers Consultant, Careers Service

Andy Walker – International Team

Congratulations

…you have made it through your year abroad and to your final year!

What’s New?

• New Programme Director: office - E40 MBS East, telephone - 0161 306 3523, email - jiajia.liu@mbs.ac.uk.

• New Director of Undergraduate Studies, Dr Anna Goatman.

• New member of the International Team, Melanie Crank

• New name for the school – Alliance Manchester Business School.

Final Year Reminders

• Find all information about your programme on the Undergraduate Online Handbook - https://ughandbook.portals.mbs.ac.uk/Home.aspx.

• Register on your programme and pay your fees. You will be charged a late fee if you don’t do this by the end of September.

• Make your final course choices by 9 October 2015. You need 120 credits, 60 of which should be defined as ‘international’.

Final Year Reminders

• With the large range of course choices, bear in mind that timetable clashes are inevitable.

• Prerequisite Rule: you won’t be allowed to take courses that you haven’t taken the pre-requisite courses for during your second year at MBS. Courses taken on exchange cannot count as pre-requisites.

• And…pre-requisite courses must be passed at first attempt at 40% or more (not by a compensated fail).

Final Year Reminders

• How will your degree classification be calculated? Year 1: Zero Year 2: 0.33% Year 3: Zero – your third year abroad is graded

pass/fail and is not included in the final degree classification

Year 4: 0.67%

Final Year Reminders

• Get in touch with your Academic Advisor to say hello – you may need him/her for a reference soon.

• Remind yourself about feedback - https://ughandbook.portals.mbs.ac.uk/Myassessment/Feedback.aspx.

Final Year Reminders

• Finally…• Attend all classes.• Prepare for all classes.• Make use of C11 Study Room to practice

presentations.• Remember the rules on academic malpractice and

plagiarism.• Get help if you need it: your Academic Advisor,

Course Coordinators, your Programme Director or the Programme Team in D20.

Things to look out for!

• Emails from undergraduate@mbs.ac.uk including the fortnightly e-bulletin.

• Posts on Facebook (mbsundergraduate).• Our tweets @MBSUndergrad.• Careers opportunities.• Undergraduate Social Event at The Midland

Hotel in December.

Things to do!

• Make contact with the Disability Support Office if you need support.

• Complete the National Student Survey when it opens in February 2016.

• Consider becoming a Student Rep for your final year.• Attend the International Fair – Wednesday 21

October to advise second year IM/IMABS students. There will be food and drinks…

• Support and attend MBS International Society events.

Dates for your Diary

• MBS International Fair – 21 October @ 3:15pm

• Second Year Student Meeting – meet those students going to your year abroad destination – 9 March @ 2:00pm

• Say goodbye to the semester 2 exchange students – 13 May 2016 @2:30pm (more food and drinks…)

At the end of this session…

• Collect your transcript from the International Team outside the lecture theatre.

Have a fantastic final year!