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Let’s talk about the positive things.
In the last News I had reported about an experiment – mixing wealth management etc. lectures at universities in Zurich with practical aspects in
this business field from financial institutions – and I had also announced the report on this trip, not an excursion in the traditional sense – but
interesting never the less. The report on my homepage gives details, please see
http://194.94.76.8/moore/,
For one and a half semesters we had been working on the preparation of our Finance Excursion to London and Dublin. In general it stood under the
topic Capital Markets, though of course we didn’t limit our preparation and the visits to this topic. In the course International Financial Markets
and Institutions the excursion group (and other students from the course) intensively worked on the financial markets and institutions in England
and Ireland – but also on others around the world (Fed vs. ECB, IMF, World Bank Group ...) and the impact of the financial crisis and the debt crisis
on these economies. Steve Hartley, whom we knew from our visit to Zurich and the Swiss Business School, gave a block course on Wealth Management. So
the students were really fit for the financial topics on our tour. The report is finished and will be published shortly. An e-version is available
also under http://194.94.76.8/moore/ .
For the second time our partner university Gdansk School of Banking organised an international Business Week
http://www.wsb.gda.pl/eng,gda-eng,business-week. 18 BMS students
and one student from LTM participated – and I believe they learnt a lot and hat great fun – read their report – again also under
http://194.94.76.8/moore/.
In the winter semester 2010/11 for the first time students from our partner university Xianda in Shanghai spent one (four students) respectively two
(three students) semesters in Stralsund. I have the feeling they enjoyed it and learnt a lot – and also we benefited a lot from their input. We look
forward to welcoming the next group in September!
But there were also problems:
- Several cases of illness hit our degree course very hard
- Budget cuts of partly more than 2/3rd during the first semester.
- Limitations in guest lectures and tutorials.
- Restrictions in taking care of international relationships ...
These budget problems don’t really let us feel the education initiative the government had announced. For the fourth semester in row I had no support
by a student assistant, requests of students for a tutorial in corporate finance were rejected just as a tutor for organisational matters and as
second representative during our finance excursion. Our administration issued a rule that if we have international guests and we should invite them
for a dinner, this should not cost more than 20 Euro per person. College Janusz A. Szymczyk from mechanical engineering pointed out that it is
not possible to go to a restaurant and give your guests a limit – or take them to a Döner or Asian Take Away – and I totally agree with him.
But let’s look ahead - positively.
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