Your Business Degree (2e)

Your Business Degree helps business and commerce students to maximise their chances of success in their degree studies and increase their readiness for employment after they graduate.

By targeting the development of graduate competencies and academic skills, in line with TEQSA requirements, this book will help facilitate critical, minimum learning outcomes for any business student. It will be particularly appropriate for AACSB-accredited Business degrees as it is closely aligned to Assurance of Learning standards and requirements.

Your Business Degree can be used as a foundation text, and throughout the period of a degree. Students can study and practise the skills in their own time; the materials can also be delivered through lectures and tutorials, whether in stand-alone ‘academic skills’ segments or as embedded elements in discipline and content-specific settings.

About the Author

Ros McCulloch has held academic positions in Universities in the UK and in Australia, in Faculties of Business, Arts & Humanities and Education, and has extensive experience in training teachers to work in the school, Further Education (TAFE) and tertiary sectors. She has published a number of books that focus on improving the learning experience and success of students through the use of practical, discipline-specific resources, and has a particular interest in assisting students as they ‘transition’ from one sector of education to the next.

Ros has developed, led and taught University Graduate Certificate courses for academics involved in teaching in the tertiary sector in the UK and in Australia, and has led or participated in national and international Teaching and Learning projects in both countries. She is currently Co-ordinator of the Teaching and Learning Team in the Business School, Queensland University of Technology. Ros also holds the post of Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Creative Arts, James Cook University, Queensland.

Andrea Reid is an Employability Coordinator at The University of Queensland. Andrea has 15 years’ higher education experience working with transitioning students across three key institutions in Queensland (University of Southern Queensland, University of Queensland and Queensland University of Technology) in the areas of instructional design, distance learning, language and learning development of international students, and academic staff development. Andrea is a qualified teacher, holding a Bachelor of Arts (English and History), a Bachelor of Education, and a Graduate Diploma of Distance Education. She is nearing completion of a Master of Education and is currently working on a research project on international students’ academic and language skill development through an embedded model. Andrea has presented her work at two international first year experience conferences in the areas of embedding language and learning development and working with transitioning international students.