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And The Winner Is....

IBAT College is delighted to announce the winner of our MBA Competition!  It is Alice Burrowes from Walkinstown in Dublin!

This competition took place last week on Newstalk’s popular programme, The Right Hook with George Hook. It gave listeners of the programme the fantastic opportunity to win the chance to study an MBA to the value of €5000 with the College! Each day, entrants had to answer a general knowledge question and winning names were chosen to go into a draw. Last Friday, this draw took place and Alice was chosen as the lucky winner!

Well Done Alice!

Win an MBA worth €5,000 with IBAT College Swords

This year IBAT College Swords have launched their MBA post-graduate programme. Awarded by university Wales, the MBA programme is a prestigious management qualification that will greatly enhance student’s career prospects. The MBA programme is one of the most competitive MBA programmes on the market, at a very competitive rate of €5,000. To celebrate this IBAT College Swords have given us a fantastic prize this week. You could win an MBA worth five thousand euro, either full time or part time over 2 years.

To be in with a chance of winning just listen to The Right Hook this week from 4.30pm.

Visit www.ibat.ie to find out about enrolling for their February courses.

An MBA for 5000 Euro? Part 2

Ok, so now you've found an MBA you can afford.

Will you be able to get the time off work to study part time?

It's important to understand how much time you need to ask for.

Assuming you took on our part time course:

You are taking on two 12 week terms. Each term has one reading week. So you need to ask your boss for a total of 22 Friday afternoons in a year. I think you'll find your boss a lot more receptive to the idea of you studying an MBA if he realises its just 22 Fridays and not a whole years worth.

Take care and talk soon

Oisin

An MBA for 5000 Euro? Part 1

In just 13 weeks, IBAT will start running it's first Master's program, namely a Masters in Business Administration (MBA).

We've put a lot of thought into it and want it to be perfect.

The vast majority of MBA's on the market run to costs in excess of 10,000 Euro. When we were deciding on the price of the course we asked ourselves the following questions:

• With Ireland going through its biggest recession in history, people just can't afford to pay a large asking price, how much can people afford?
• What is the lowest price we can offer the course for while maintaining the strictest standards on quality ?
• Don't we have an obligation to the country to help retrain and empower people without it costing them a fortune in the process?

Both Shane Ormsby and I have completed MBA's in the past and we feel passionately about the content of the course, and what are the key subjects and topics that students need to study to prepare them to succeed in business.

Just some of the items we've done to make sure this MBA is perfect include:

• We've hired world class lecturers with large amounts of industry experience
• We've a long list of industry leaders to come in and visit the classes to talk about real world problems and solutions
• We've capped the amount of students on each class to 35
• All the classrooms we'll use will be in a round table style to facilitate round table discussions
• The part time course will take place on Friday evenings from 2pm to 9pm. It won't ruin your weekend.
• The full time course will take place on Thursdays and Fridays from 10am to 5pm, so you'll still be able to work part time.
• We'll fill the classes such that you get the best opportunity to network with your peers in different countries
• The whole structure of the course will be designed so that you can walk away from it with a set of skills which are in high demand in the work place.

This is going to be great!

Hope to see you soon.

Oisin

The first Blog

Hi there,
My name is Oisin Hughes and I'm the Operations Manager at IBAT College Swords.


The IBAT team has spent a lot of time over the last couple of weeks working on our business strategy. It's a vital task, one that every business should undertake at regular defined intervals.


The sorts of questions we asked ourselves were:


What sort of courses do we want to run over the coming year? What do we want to achieve in the next 5 years? How do we continue to grow?


At the core of the business are our Vision, Mission and Values which I've detailed below.


Vision Become a world Renowned Business Learning Center


Mission Fuel the Irish and International economy with world class business graduates


Values
Our students come first
A deep commitment to our students sits at the heart of everything we do.
Integrity
We hold ourselves to the highest standards of fairness, honesty and transparency in everything we do.
Empowerment
We set challenging goals for our employees so that they can take initiative to decide, act and be accountable for results.
Respect
We treat everyone with dignity and honor the global diversity of our students and employees. We work as a team and encourage an open, participative culture
Win and Have Fun!
We are motivated by a passion to compete and win


We'll use these principles to guide everything we do in the coming years, We sincerely hope you come and join us.


Hope to see you soon