Associate Dean, Julia Tyler, Talks About the MBA Programme at London Business School
HONG KONG, Jan. 23 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- London Business School released its first podcast on MBA insights, which is available on its website
( http://www.london.edu/podcast/podcast.xml ). Julia Tyler, Associate Dean of London Business School MBA Programme talks about the MBA Programme at London Business School and provides interview tips for potential candidates. The MBA class of 2006 has also reported outstanding success in finding jobs after graduation. Within three months of graduation, 96% of MBA graduates had secured employment.
The flexible 15-21 month MBA programme provides students with the knowledge, skills and attributes for success in global business through its unparalleled location and true classroom diversity. The international mix of students and faculty gives them a crucial advantage in today's competitive marketplace, providing students with a truly global network as well as opportunities to increase their cultural mobility. The London Business School MBA classroom provides a uniquely exciting peer environment based within a global powerhouse of finance and business.
Julia Tyler, Associate Dean of London Business School MBA Programme
Julia Tyler is the Associate Dean of the MBA programme at London Business School. She heads up the global marketing of the programme; admission of students; curriculum reform and development; and student affairs functions.
Prior to joining London Business School in 1994, Julia was a senior consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers (formerly known as Coopers & Lybrand), where she led projects in further and higher education management and policy for the UK government, European Commission, Higher Education Quality Council, World Bank, economic development agencies and individual universities in the UK and abroad. Before that she was a member of the team that founded the UK's Open University Business School, which specialises in distance learning for adults.
Julia is on the Board of the Graduate Management Advisory Council (the organisation that runs the GMAT examinations) and the Centre for Scientific Enterprise -- a joint venture between London Business School and University College London. She is an auditor for the Association of MBAs and European Foundation for Management Development. Julia is also on the Advisory Board of AMBA International Accreditation. Julia was previously a member of the Governing Body of London Business School.
Julia's first degree is from Oxford University and her second from the Institute of Education, University of London. She also completed an advanced management programme from Oxford University.
Notes for Editors
London Business School's Vision is to be the pre-eminent global business school, nurturing talent and advancing knowledge in a multi-national, multicultural environment. Founded in 1965, the School graduated over 800 MBAs, Executive MBAs, Masters in Finance, Sloan Fellows and PhDs from over 70 countries last year. The School's executive education department serves over 6,000 executives on its programmes every year. London Business School is based in the most accessible and international city in the world and is one of only two UK business schools to have twice been awarded the highest research rating of five-star (5*), by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), confirming the School as a centre of world-class research in business and management. http://www.london.edu
