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Application for Postgrad Study Closes Friday 9 July

21 April 2010

Local student application for our mid-year postgraduate course intake closes Friday 9 July

Postgrad Info Evening - Wed 16 June

11 February 2010

Applications for our mid-year intake will be accepted at our Information Evening.

Cox proposes creativity tonic for Australia's declining productivity

18 November 2011

UK business and entrepreneurship expert, Sir George Cox, says Australia needs a creativity overhaul to improve economic performance. Sir George, author of the Cox Review, will address UTS Business School on Tuesday 22 November on the reforms necessary to boost Australia's economic productivity.

According to Sir George, Australia's deteriorating productivity performance can only be reversed if both business and government fundamentally rethink their approach to innovation.

The politics of asylum

8 November 2011

With the Liberal Party claiming asylum seekers are linked to social unrest, UTS Professor of Social Economics Jock Collins examines how our country’s leaders are handling the hysteria.

A world of achievement at the UTS Alumni Awards

4 November 2011

UTS graduates were honoured for their achievements in business, the arts and science, along with service to the community both in Australia and internationally, at the 2011 UTS Alumni Awards.

UTS to take over sustainability teaching and learning website

21 September 2011

An Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) website supporting sustainability studies in universities will be taken over by a team from UTS Business School and the UTS Institute for Sustainable Futures (ISF). The UTS team has won an ALTC tender of more than $355,000 to maintain and enhance the functionality of www.sustainability.edu.au.

Wicked Business

1 September 2011

The Wicked Business Concept Design competition is devised by UTS Business School with sponsorship from the NSW Business Chamber. Entrants were selected from the new core business subject: Integrating Business Perspectives (IBP), which leads students through the early concept stage of designing a new business & provides a space for first-year students to develop their creativity and foster confidence in their ideas.

The Essential Young Entrepreneur's Event

1 September 2011

Recognising the flaws in your own business can be an intimidating prospect. While finding the motivation to keep your business edgy and competitive is a challenge in itself. How do young entrepreneurs turn their challenges into change, and their failures into success?

Promotion to Senior Lecturer

26 August 2011

Congratulations to both Dr Christina Nikitopoulos Sklibosios and Dr Natalia Nikolova, of UTS Business School, who have been promoted to the position of Senior Lecturer effective 8 July, 2011!

ALTC citations recognise leading academics and programs

7 July 2011

The team behind UTS's Peer Assisted Study Success program (U:PASS) will receive one of the six Citations for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning being awarded to UTS this year by the Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC).

Ideas market grows as sponsors align with TEDxSydney

13 April 2011

TEDxSydney announces major 2011 partners: UTS Business School, the ABC and PwC Australia

DEVELOPING THE DESIGN - DR CHAU CHAK WING BUILDING

13 April 2011

Following the design December announcement, UTS has just submitted the Frank Gehry-designed project to the NSW Department of Planning, a key milestone in the design and construction process.

The 2011 CIMA Global Business Challenge

22 March 2011

Climbing the Gehry tree house to a new kind of business school

4 March 2011

Sydney's Frank Gehry designed Dr Chau Chak Wing building will open a new page in business education in Australia.

UTS Business School Student Challenge in Space of People, Planet and Profit (3Ps)

1 February 2011

A competition for teams of 2-4 current undergraduate students in the UTS Business School of all years in the space of People, Planet and Profit (The 3Ps). The challenge is to develop a new, innovative product/idea, service associated with the 3Ps. The teams are required to develop their ideas into a viable business case. Deadline for team registration is 30 April.

UTS Information Day 5 Jan 2011

21 December 2010

Final undergraduate university enrolment preferences are due at midnight on Thursday 6 January.

UTS Public Lecture: The Perennial Sports Funding Dilemma: Gold -v- Grassroots or, Somewhere in Between?

8 November 2010

Leading EU sport researcher, Professor Chris Gratton, with speakers from the UTS Business Faculty will lead a discussion on these questions from both the European and Australian perspectives.

Vice-Chancellor's Kuring-gai campus update

2 September 2010

Kuring-gai campus will continue to offer programs until at least the end of 2014.

Gordon Menzies speaks about the mining tax

24 August 2010

If the newly powerful independent triumvirate really cares about all of regional Australia, its members should throw their weight behind a substantial mining tax.

Postgraduate Course Information Sessions

4 August 2010

MBA, Executive MBA & specialised programs in Accounting, Finance, HR, Management, Marketing, Quantitative Finance, Supply Chains and management of Arts, Community, Events, Sport & Tourism.

2010 Parlin Award: Professor Jordan Louviere

30 July 2010

This award recognizes Professor Louviere's substantial contributions and unwavering dedication to the ongoing advancement of marketing research practice.

Australian Chamber of Commerce Beijing and the Australia China Council Scholarship

29 June 2010

Great opportunity providing 15 Australian students with return flights to china, language training, mentoring a stipend and more

UTS presents Frank Gehry in conversation

16 June 2010

World-renowned Frank Gehry will appear in conversation with ABC presenter Geraldine Doogue in an exclusive public event hosted by the University of Technology Sydney.

Business Dean’s Scholarship Recipients

13 May 2010

Congratulations to Lachlann Kerr and Matthew Spiteri

Emerald Science citation of excellence award won by UTS Business academics

7 May 2010

Stewart Clegg, Kjersti Bjørkeng and Tyrone Pitsis have won the Emerald Science citation of excellence award.

Trailblazer competition

29 April 2010

Annual competition open to all UTS staff and students, with prize money totalling $15,000.

Take the UTS:CHALLENGE

23 April 2010

Still as smart as when you were 22? Find out now - answer 22 questions against the clock and try to make our leaderboard

Acclaimed architect Frank Gehry to create concept design for new Business School building

15 February 2010

The interesting thing about this project is that the brief of the business school is to reach out to the community and enable the community to reach into them, to become part of it -Frank Gehry, 7:30 Report, December 11, 2009

LS&T researcher scoops SMAANZ student research prize

12 February 2010

Dr Daniel Lock from LS&T was selected as the Sport Management Association of Australian and New Zealand’s top student researcher of 2009 for his Doctoral Thesis completed at UTS.

Australian Sport Research Network (ASRN)

12 February 2010

On 19th February the Faculty and the School of LS&T will be hosting some twenty leading academics and researchers in Sport Management and Sport Science from around Australia.

New Head of the School of Management, Professor Steve Fox

12 February 2010

We look forward to his leadership role in the development of both the School of Management and the Faculty as a whole.

Professor Grahame Dowling has joined the School of Marketing as a Professor of Strategy

12 February 2010

He is acknowledged as one of Australia's leading academics in the area of corporate reputations having published in top tier marketing and strategy journals.

Appointment of Dr Bart Frischknecht to the Centre for the Study of Choice

12 February 2010

His experience will contribute towards advancing the development and industrial application of choice modelling, especially in the area of product development.

World Championship Sailor makes history in final year at UTS.

1 February 2010

Hugh Tait, in his final year of the MBA Program at UTS, is one of the university's most successful athletes and the first Sailor in Australia to win the National Championship in both the NS 14 and MG14 Class.

Information for New Students

29 January 2010

Information for new students commencing study at UTS Business

Postgrad Application Closes Soon

20 January 2010

Applications for 1st semester 2010 close soon

Last Postgrad Info Evening before Applications Close

22 December 2009

Wednesday 20 January

Undergrad Advisory Day

22 December 2009

Tuesday 5 January

Alumni Christmas Party 2009

27 November 2009

Harold Mitchell, Chairman of Mitchell and Partners gave a lively dissertation on making it in the jungle we know as business and giving something back to the community on the way.

Centre for Australian Community Organisations and Management receives full NACC membership

25 November 2009

NACC is the first group entirely dedicated to the promotion and networking of centres that provide research and education in philanthropy and the nonprofit sector

Prof. Michael Keane elected to Econometric Society Council

24 November 2009

This is both a wonderful personal achievement and a significant accolade for UTS, being one of two Australian Universities represented.

Guide touts eco-friendly tourism

24 November 2009

Dr Jess Ponting, who recently completed his doctorate at the School of Leisure, Sport, and Tourism of the Faculty of Business, UTS comments.

Positioning Disability Access at Centre Stage

23 November 2009

A case of inclusive organisational change at a global icon - the Sydney Opera House

AHRI Accreditation of HR Qualifications

17 November 2009

MBus and BBus degrees in HRM reaccredited by Australian Human Resources Institute.

Boost people skills: study

9 November 2009

As the economy recovers, the federal government is focusing on how to lift Australia's stagnant productivity by boosting skills, use of technology and management performance.

LODE.com.au

27 October 2009

Lode is the new way of connecting university students, graduates and alumni with Australia's leading employers.

UTS Students at National Student Leadership Forum

9 October 2009

Bachelor of Management students from Kuring-gai Campus Stephanie Dobbin and Rosemary Gale attended the 12th National Student Leadership Forum on Faith and Values in Canberra

Ground-breaking new book launched

7 October 2009

Author, Dr David Waller, has launched a ground-breaking new Australian marketing textbook, 'Marketing'.

Do Australian business systems fail our best people?

15 September 2009

Are we getting the best from our people, and how can leaders do better? These were the questions at the UTS: Business panel on Thursday, September 10. 115 people turned out to hear from four high-profile business leaders and academics in a discussion hosted by Professor Roy Green.

Kuring-gai Campus Info Evening

31 August 2009

Undergraduate Information Evening from 4pm to 7pm on Wednesday 9 September at the Kuring-gai Campus located in Lindfield on Sydney's north shore.

Global Tourism and Travel Distribution - changes, impacts and opportunities

27 August 2009

UTS Sailors Crowned World Champions

27 August 2009

Congratulations to our UTS Sailors, 2009 Women’s Match Racing World Champions!

Creative thinkers want designer degrees

27 August 2009

Story in Australian Financial Review Joanna Mather interviews Professor Roy Green.

UTS to offer new health services plannning courses from 2010

27 August 2009

The University of Technology, Sydney will provide new courses for health service planners from 2010.

UTS City Campus Info Day

13 August 2009

Undergraduate information day on Saturday 29 August 2009 from 9am-4pm

Aged-care bond options under scrutiny

3 August 2009

Warren Hogan, Adjunct Professor, School of Finance and Economics rejects the idea that aged-care bonds require people to sell their homes.

Results of Autumn 2009 student feedback survey

28 July 2009

The survey produced 20,738 responses from students attending UTS:Business lectures and tutorials.

Best Paper Award at AFAANZ Conference

27 July 2009

UTS Professor Terry Walter receives second award for best paper at the 2009 AFAANZ Conference.

Love, not money, makes the world go around

27 July 2009

Story in Australian Financial Review on research by Terry Flynn, a senior research fellow with the UTS:Centre for the Study of Choice.

Sky Business News interviews Professor Roy Green

27 July 2009

Professor Roy Green, Dean of UTS:Business was interviewed regarding government policies and economic reform and the need for ingenuity and innovation in economic recovery.

ABC 702 Radio interviews Professor Roy Green

27 July 2009

Can a stimulus package, which is a geared towards short-term gains for the economy, power ideas into the next century?

Article in Manly Daily on UTS Dr Janet Currie

27 July 2009

Dr Currie, senior lecturer in PDHPE at UTS, is trialling a HSC De-Stress program.

Professor David Gallagher joins UTS:Business

27 July 2009

Professor Gallagher joins UTS:Business in July 2009.

UTS:Business student creates history at Henley Royal Regatta

27 July 2009

First year UTS:Business student and Rowing Sports Scholar, Scott Woodyard created history as one of the youngest rowers ever to win the Henley Royal Regatta.

How innovation policy can create long-term growth and jobs

27 July 2009

Podcast on ABC Radio National website of UTSpeaks public lecture by Professor Roy Green, Dean of UTS:Business.

How will world population impact us in 50 years?

27 July 2009

Podcast on ABC Radio National website of UTSpeaks public lecture.

Congratulations to Carl Chiarella, David Goldbaum and Tony He

21 July 2009

Congratulations for staging the very successful 15th International Conference on Computing in Economics and Finance.

How Australians have a real appetite for risk

21 July 2009

Article in Sydney Morning Herald on study by Associate Professor Hazel Bateman (UNSW) and Professor Jordan Louviere and Dr Susan Thorp of UTS.

New Director of Graduate School of Business

16 July 2009

Associate Professor Julia Connell is the new Director of the Graduate School of Business and Associate Dean of Postgraduate Programs.

Going Passive - Insto investors question active management

10 July 2009

Jack Gray and Ron Bird are working together on a paper for UTS which will look at why investors continue to choose active managers.

Take a leaf out of Copenhagen Business School's book

10 July 2009

UTS Professor Stewart Clegg's letter to the editor that appeared in The Australian 8 July 2009.

Australian Centre of Excellence for Local Government

10 July 2009

UTS to lead the new Australian Centre of Excellence for Local Government.

Associate Professor Promotions Committee

10 July 2009

Professor Terry Walter has been elected to the Associate Professor Promotions Committee.

Congratulations to UTS winners of ALTC Citations

9 July 2009

Australian Learning and Teaching Council Citations (ALTC) have been announced.

UTS Trailblazer awards

9 July 2009

Associate Professor Simon Darcy and Bruce Cameron highly commended at recent UTS Trailblazer awards.

Best paper at AFAANZ Conference

9 July 2009

Professor Stephen Taylor, Yaowen Shan and Professor Terry Walter have received an award for best paper.

Centre for the Study of Choice in AFR

9 July 2009

The Australian Financial Review have published a brilliant article on the Centre for the Study of Choice.

CenSoC and Kimberly-Clark Australia teamup

9 July 2009

UTS and major manufacturer Kimberly-Clark Australia have teamed up to collaborate for research and teaching and learning.

David Gallagher wins best asian investments paper

6 July 2009

At the recent 2009 Asian Finance Association International Conference, UTS School of Finance Professor David Gallagher and his co-authors won the award for the best asian investments paper.

UTSpeaks public lecture: Power to the people

6 July 2009

Do politicians really care what people think or is ignorance bliss?Community consultation is the catch-phrase of politicians and lobby groups seeking to introduce signicant change. But how often are the views of the broader community really rejected in decisions made by our leaders and how often do the results actually serve the wider good? Does the rise of online groups like Getup show that the community is sick of not being heard.

Wednesday 12 August

UTSpeaks public lecture: The knowledge based future of Australia - How innovation policy can create long-term growth and jobs

14 July 2009

Computing in Economics and Finance 2009 Conference

15 July 2009 to 17 July 2009

Alumni mentoring program celebration

22 July 2009

School of Marketing Research Seminar: Adopting or rejecting sustainable consumption practices: The role of identify conflict"

23 July 2009