UNSW is the proud host of
the AAPBS 2018 Annual Meeting in Sydney this November. All the program details and registration can
be found here.
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UNSW Business School
subjects first in Australia in world rankings
UNSW Sydney Business School has ranked first in
Australia for both Finance and Management in the Shanghai Ranking's Global
Ranking of Academic Subjects 2018, placing them within the top 50 worldwide.
Within Australia, Business Administration
ranked third and Economics fourth, both coming within the top 75 globally;
while Hospitality and Tourism Management ranked 7th in
Australia and 34th in the world.
UNSW Sydney scored the most subjects ranked
first in Australia and the highest number of subjects ranked in the top 100 in
the country.
With 38 subjects ranking in the global top
100, 24 in the top 50 and three in the top 10, UNSW continues its climb up the
rankings, having the most subjects of all Australian universities in the
prestigious league table.
In addition to the Business School's Finance
and Management subjects, seven other UNSW subjects – Civil Engineering,
Instruments Science & Technology, Library & Information Science,
Mathematics, Mechanical Engineering, Remote Sensing and Water Resources – rank
first in Australia. This is almost double the number of UNSW subjects ranked
first in 2017.
ShanghaiRanking's Global Ranking of Academic
Subjects has published the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) by academic subjects since
2009. The rankings assess more than 4000 universities across 54 subjects
in natural sciences, engineering, life sciences, medical sciences, and social
sciences.
The methodology to determine the ranking
includes the number of papers published, international collaboration and
citation impact. The full methodology can be found here.
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Free trade deal with
Indonesia crucial for Australia
The Prime Minister's trip to Indonesia is to secure
a free trade agreement with a vastly under-rated economic partner, says UNSW
Business School's Tim Harcourt.
Australia depends on
rocks and crops, says the UNSW Business Schools Tim Harcourt. And many of
Australian grain growers are doing it tough right now. Thats why they, and cattlemen,
have high hopes of big reductions in tariffs with Indonesia, ahead of these
talks.
Scott Morrison is hoping to secure a landmark trade deal with
Indonesia as he takes his first overseas trip as Prime Minister.
Morrison has a hard act to follow. Malcolm Turnbull had very
good relations with Indonesian President Joko Widodo, and the loss of Julie
Bishop who was much respected in the region is another body blow. But Morrison
will know that dairy, citrus and sugar producers want a deal. But a deal may be
tough. Indonesian wants to be self-sufficient with its food, says Harcourt,
the J.W. Nevile Fellow in Economics at the UNSW Business School.
The PM has flown to Indonesia to
meet with his counterpart Joko Widodo eight years after the two
nations first began talks on a free trade agreement.
Wheat exports make up about half of Australia's agricultural
trade with Indonesia, he says, and adds Indonesia is a vital trade partner
with Australia, worth $16 billion in two way trade, and also a vital education
partner.
In fact, in the greater scheme of things, Indonesia is a much
underrated economic partner. As well as big names like ANZ, Leightons,
Commbank, Orica and Bluescope, over 2400 Australian businesses export goods
alone to Indonesia and many corporates have receive rates of return
four times that of China and
India. But there are only 250 Australian companies with a presence in Indonesia, which compares to over 3,000 in other markets like
China.
Harcourt argues that free trade is crucial for Australia, and
increased tensions around a trade war would not be good for the world economy.
World leaders now fear a trade war, just when there were good signs of better
days ahead in the global economy.
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The UNSW Business School and Jindal Global
Business School at Jindal Global University (JGU) have announced an
agreement, which will allow students at JGU to be accepted into the UNSW Master
of Commerce degree program.
"This aligns
closely to the 2025 UNSW strategy for developing international partnerships
with global impact,"
said UNSW Business School's Professor Richard
Dunford Associate Dean, International & External Relations.
"This is a great new pathway into the
Master of Commerce degree for students in India. We look forward to receiving
the first students in Term 1 2019 and working closely with JGU," he said.
JGU, located in Haryana in India, and UNSW
Business School, in Sydney in Australia, have agreed that students completing
the JGU-UNSW articulation pathway will receive a Master of Commerce degree
from UNSW.
Students at JGU enrolled in the Integrated
Bachelor of Business Administration (Hons) and the Master of Business
Administration or the Master of Business Administration will be eligible for
advanced standing (recognition of prior learning) of up to to 4 courses or 24
Units of Credit (UOC).
Students may complete the remaining 72
UOC in one year depending on their chosen specialisation. Standard admission
and English Language requirements apply. All teaching at UNSW will be in
English.
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