Harper Adams University - Prospectus 2024

Ownership and agency With a heavy focus on your chosen business specialism, year four will see you nurture the skills you need to achieve those high-end positions post Harper; including: sustainability and ethics, entrepreneurship andmanagement coaching. This year also sees the return of our vocational project – this time called the Capstone project. This is a real test of your strategic leadership, how you think globally and how you can adapt what you’ve learnt to suit client needs. “Our courses have been designedwith real-world application at their heart. Wewant to send out graduates who not only recognisewhat they have learnt when they’re out in theworkingworld, but have had chance to hone and practice these skills whilst at university. “Everythingwe’ve created is all about experiential learning and creating the businessmanagers and CEOs of the future.” GeoffUnderwood, Associate Head of Department, Food, Land and Agribusiness Management and Senior Lecturer in Business and Management. Business Management A business education unlocks exciting opportunities and our Business Management degree takes a universal and integrated approach to understanding business, organisations and management. Through this course you will develop a broad set of transferrable skills that will last you a lifetime in an increasingly globalised world and one where the nature of work and employment continues to be shaped by advances in digital technology. This degree is perfect if you’re looking for that graduate management level career, but you’re hoping for a wider range of sectors and roles to move in to. Throughout your degree, you will experience a blend of academic and practical learning, backed up with a fascinating range of events and activities that get you working alongside successful businesses. You will try your hand at finding real-world solutions and meet leading industry experts from a range of sustainable competitive businesses. Not forgetting a transformative placement year working in industry. Along with essential practical, technical skills you will also be learning invaluable interpersonal skills that employers’ rate so highly, such as communication, teamwork, creativity, motivation and leadership. “It was a simple idea really," is what Business Management student, CamStephenson, said about his suggestionwhich catapulted a division’s turnover to £750k during his placement year. Turning scraps into riches, Camproposed that his placement employer reconditioned redundant technology to sell back to consumers. “Ologic, where I didmy placement, repairs technology for insurance providers – but a lot of the things our engineers receive just aren’t fixablewithin claim guidelines, so they get scrapped; literally! I proposed these products were recycled and, with the help of our engineers, are rebuilt into newdevices that we can then sell as refurbished technology.” With this ‘reduce, reuse, recycle’ mentality, Cam establishedwhat would become a separate department, hired two employees and came to manage the ecommerce and sales area for his project – an achievement which saw its turnover skyrocket 317 per cent and awarded Cama perfect score fromhis employer. “My placement was invaluable” says Cam. “I chosemy Harper degree to giveme the biggest platform to stand onwhen I leave university so that’s what I intend to do. I can’t wait to seewhere [my degree] takesme.” Readmore here. Student Story: CamStephenson HARPER.AC.UK | 33