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What is the Universities Business Challenge?

An competition for undergraduate students from across the UK

Who participates?

Over 1,500 undergraduate students each year

You will be representing your University in a national competition with over 1,500 students from universities such as Bristol, Durham, Sheffield, Surrey, Liverpool, Edinburgh, Royal Holloway, Cardiff, Bath, Nottingham, York, Sheffield, Canterbury Christ Church, Portsmouth

Bournemouth University:Winners

Anglia Ruskin University:Winners

University of Essex:Winners

University of Sheffield:Winners

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Why Take Part?

• Improve your employability skills

• Learn about enterprise / social enterprise

• An opportunity to enhance your c.v.

• Get ahead of the pack

• See what others say: facebook.com/ubcworldwide

Sheffield Hallam University:Winners

Anglia Ruskin University:Winners

Imperial College London:Winners

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What you will learnCompetencies you will learn that will prepare you for interview / assessment questions

• Analytical skills

• Commercial Awareness

• Influencing Skills

• Leadership

• Time, Planning and Organising

• Team working

• A Results-Driven Approach

• Financial Awareness

• Innovation in Problem-Solving

• Managing the Customer Relationship

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‘Degrees don’t get jobs. People get jobs.

Learn skills beyond your degree’

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http://www.ubcworldwide.com/uk-educators

http://www.ubcworldwide.com/uk-student-participants/

What do past student participants say?Take a look here:

What do lecturers say?Take a look here:

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How does it the UBC work?

Round One: Run on-line

• You will be running a different simulated business in each round of the UBC

• Round One is run on-line via the UBC simulation portal

• Starts late October each year

• Weekly decisions for 6 weeks (allow 1-2 hours per week)

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• Round One, continued

• Everything you need downloadable from the UBC simulation platform

• You and your team act as the Board of Directors for a company

• You will manage all the different functions of this company

• Your challenge is to run it profitably and maximise customer satisfaction

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Round 2:

Regional Semi-Finals - Feb/March

One-day live events around the UK

Round 3:

Grand Final – 3rd week of March

One-day live event hosted by IBM

Lead employer partner:

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How do you enter?What’s the next step?

• Form a team of up to five members (check that your university is participating)

• If not ask your lecturer to enter on-line at:

• http://www.ubcworldwide.com/uk-how-to-enter

• Nominate a team leader

• Teams receive logins for the simulation website

• Start participating and running your company

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This is how good it feels to win

Take a look at the UBC website:www.ubcworldwide.com

UBC facebook page:/UBCWorldwide