It’s very quiet in the building these days. This is deceptive. It doesn’t mean that the MBAs are not working. On the contrary. The students on the full-time programme are busily working on their final projects while the students on the International Business programme have returned from their exchange and are now undertaking their internships. I wonder whether they have time to catch up with what’s happening around them.
If you watch the news regularly you have probably heard as well that some people claim that the economy is picking up now. And there are some good signs with property prices going up ever so slightly and people in general expressing more confidence. The job market is still to show signs of improvement so most people will not be counting their chickens. Damaged by the last 12-18months people have now realised the importance of savings and not sticking everything on the plastic. It could be interesting to see whether the number of applications for credit cards have dropped during the crunch. Do any of you know? Approvals will have gone down but have people, scared by the crunch, decided not to live a life based on credit? leave a comment if you know.
All this energy being spent on the final project sends the message that another MBA years is slowly but surely coming to an end – a time for reflection. At the same time I’m in contact with many of the “new” MBAs arriving in Edinburgh in September. Yes, you do get to appreciate the cyclical nature of the world of education in this job.
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interesting material, where such topics do you find? I will often go
Thanks for your compliments. I simply make a note of things when I read it in the news for blogging later on.
~Inger