The skills gap
One of the primary ways business schools can make a difference in their students’ lives is by helping them attain the skills they need to reach the next stage of their career. Sheffield Business School dean Professor Conor Moss elaborates
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conscious decision and re-focusing our attention on the challenge of upskilling. With this in mind, my colleagues and I have worked together extensively over the past two years to develop a new strategy. Our mission is to lead transformative change for our students, businesses and society by empowering future leaders through a highly innovative and applied curriculum. We also aim to become a catalyst for collaboration by connecting organisations with students to find enterprising solutions to real-world problems, driving societal change through our research, innovation and knowledge‑exchange activities.
elivering an industry-aligned curriculum is a core requirement when it comes to supporting highly skilled employment. At Sheffield Business School, we encourage students to
put their theory into practice through real-life, community-advancement applied projects that are embedded and accredited as part of their degree. Our school has a long history of applied education and commitment to employability; as part of a strategic refresh, we have further embedded applied learning within the curriculum at all levels in every programme, making it much more of a
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