Bahn's progress is recorded on his cult blog beatthegmat.blogspot.com. He scored 720. The average score this July was 537.

"Eighty days?" says Judy Phair, vice-president, communications, of the Graduate Management Admission Council, which runs the test. "We say seven weeks is about right, but it depends on ability. The knack is to work on your weaknesses, not your strengths. And try to answer all the questions. It's a myth that the first few questions will determine your grade."

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History: Founded in 1964 as the Arthur D. Little School of Management, it was renamed Hult International Business School in 2003, honouring benefactor Bertil Hult.

Address: Has an outstanding location in central London, overlooking Russell Square, in the city's famous literary and academic district of Bloomsbury. World-class libraries, museums and universities are a two minute walk away.

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Many stammerers are loath to classify hesitant speech as a disability, but employers openly admit using it as a main reason for rejection irrespective of other skills. A survey by the British Stammering Association found 27 per cent of its members had been told their speech was the reason for non-promotion, while surveys in the US, Canada and Australia found similar high levels of discrimination.

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Routley stopped her work as a secretary at the onset of the disease, took up yoga ? where she learnt to visualise ? but had to give that up when she could no longer get off the floor. When she lost the ability to drive, her world retreated. "It took everything away from me. I was stuck in the house."

Social services introduced her to Vitalise New Horizons Centre in Derby, which supports people with disabilities at a low point in their lives. Through the centre, Routley ( Read more... )
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Why do you love your job?

Fashion has always been a passion of mine. You've got to love clothes. That goes without saying. The best thing about my job is making people happy. People come in to the shop flustered because they can't find the right outfit, and then you see the relief on their faces when you find the perfect dress. Some clients actually kiss you when they leave.

What sort of things do you have to do?

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The decision to recreate itself began more than a decade ago, when the company suddenly woke up to the fact that Japanese companies such as Canon were poised to dominate a business it had in effect created. Xerox's initial response was to become one of the early converts to the quality religion. Now it sees its future as moving away from being a pure supplier of office equipment with a little service and maintenance tacked on in the hope of distinguishing it from the competition. Instead, it ( Read more... )
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Diamond Light Source is a new scientific facility being built in South Oxfordshire on the Harwell Chilton science campus. This giant machine, called a synchrotron, is a series of super microscopes. It is the largest science facility to be built in the UK for 30 years. It is housed in a futuristic doughnut-shaped building that covers the area of five football pitches. Diamond will ultimately host up to 40 cutting-edge research stations, supporting life, physical and environmental sciences.

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By Jonathon Carr-Brown and Alkarim Jivani

5 December 1999

Racial discrimination at work is getting worse, not better, according to a TUC report. Black and Excluded, to be launched at a conference tomorrow, claims that unemployment rates in the ethnic communities have risen from 11 per cent to 13 per cent since the beginning of the 1990s, despite growing prosperity. And although a small number of non-whites have broken into the professions, very few hold senior management positions.

Despite apologies and promises from the Student Loans Company's chief executive, Ralph Seymour-Jackson, that they ?are actively doing all we can to work through all applications as quickly as possible,? students are still waiting. They are attributing the delays to large increases on loan requests: 723,000 students were paid by 25 October, a 2.5 per cent increase to the 705,000 student.

One student, Patrick Deane, from the University of Liverpool, waited as much as ( Read more... )
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Nyenrode installed De Blot (pictured below) as professor in 2006, interested in spirituality's influence on a company's strength. Questions he asked then about whether the lack of spirituality in European companies weakened their competitive position against their non-Western counterparts now look extremely pertinent, as the fulcrum shifts to the East. There, in places like Japan and China, he believes staff invest more energy in their companies.

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Age: 167

History: Began life in 1842 when it was founded by the (now Royal) Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain. In 1925 it began offering University of London (UL) degrees and joined the UL in 1949 as a specialist school, receiving a Royal Charter in 1952.

Address: North side of Brunswick Square in the Bloomsbury area of London.

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Age: 170, 4 as a university

History: Origins can be traced back to 1839, when Bishop Otter College was established as a training school for schoolmasters in Chichester. Bishop Otter College merged with Bognor Regis College in 1977, to form West Sussex Institute and later Chichester Institute. It became University College Chichester with degree-awarding status in 1999 and gained full university status in 2005.

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History: Founded in 1965, the school is part of The Robert Gordon University, first set up by a successful local businessman in 1750. It has offered its own MBA since 1994, on a full-time, part-time and now online basis.

Address: On RGU's Garthdee campus.

Ambience: The sleek, ultra-modern £20m building designed by Lord Foster overlooks parkland next to the River Dee. State-of-the-art teaching facilities, lecture theatres, IT labs, staff accommodation, café and ( Read more... )
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History: The oldest business school in England. It was set up as part of the brand new University of Birmingham in 1902. Birmingham was also the first English university to offer a business degree.

Address: Moved to a new multi-million pound home opposite the main gates of the university in 2004. It's in an elegant 1908 building standing in its own grounds, alongside a new building with state-of-the-art teaching and learning facilities, so students get the best of both worlds.

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Recent research by National Grid found that four in ten students (43 per cent) wouldn't know how to minimise the risk of an explosion if they smelt gas, and worryingly just one in seven (16 per cent) rate having a fire alarm as one of most important things when selecting accommodation. The majority also struggle to recognise the five indicators of CO poisoning - despite the silent, odourless gas having the ability to cause brain damage and even death.

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This relatively modern subset of history deals with how historians engage with a wider public outside universities. It works both ways: the presentation and explanation of complex historical themes such as the Holocaust on the one hand, and understanding how the public views history on the other. Venues include museums, country houses, exhibitions and the media ? as well as the lecture theatre and archives.

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"It's not quite green shoots ? but green roots," says Mike Hill, chief executive of Prospects, the graduate careers service. Immediate vacancies posted on the Prospects website, which can be anything from unpaid internships to full-time positions with small to medium enterprises, were up 50 per cent year-on-year for September, having been "very flat in the early part of the year", says Mr Hill. "We're starting to get small indications that the graduate cohort of 2010 will not be facing quite such ( Read more... )
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Audencia School of Management is in Nantes, France, MIP is part of the Politecnico di Milano, Italy and HHL is the Leipzig School of Management in Germany. All have pedigrees dating from the 19th century, are well regarded and are accredited by one or more major organisations. Although they have strong regional roots, they also place students in international companies that want MBAs able to work for them globally.

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What do you come out with? BA or BSc

Why do it? Because you?re a natural-born organiser and relish the challenges that come with overseeing large projects. Or you?re business-minded, and looking for a stable career in a field with a shortage of qualified professionals.

What's it about? Logistics is all about getting the right goods to the right place at the right time. In the past few years the industry has been affected by rising fuel costs ( Read more... )
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"Being a linguist says a lot about you as a person," says Teresa Tinsley at the National Centre for Languages, Cilt. "An international perspective is highly valued; it's not just about the language skills." And cultural awareness ? combined with languages ? is essential in much government work, be it in shaping European environmental policy, gathering intelligence, or helping UK nationals abroad.

While worldwide demand for the likes of Arabic, Russian and Mandarin is growing, central government ( Read more... )
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