This relied on the voluntary inspection and accreditation of individual MBA courses (not the business schools themselves) against strict criteria.So far 33 of the UK’s hundred or more business schools offering MBAs have had courses accredited. As the reputation of the scheme has grown, 15 business schools in France, Spain, Switzerland, The Netherlands and Italy [...]

After looking at me for some time and measuring my head with callipers, he announced that I should either be a dentist or an engineer. As the idea of looking in people’s mouths did not appeal, I was soon apprenticed to BTH, electrical engineers, and over 50 years later I was still at it.
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Pas De Reponse, who captured the Cheveley Park Stakes, was the only horse to make a successful journey in the other direction.The classifications suggest two-year-old racing is becoming increasingly uncompetitive (there are fewer horses reaching the qualification level) and this malaise is heightened by the small numbers representing France. Racing there is suffering from the [...]

One Israeli commentator worked out that Israel’s relations had worsened with 26 states during Mr Netanyahu’s first 100 days as prime minister.The fighting in September also delivered Mr Netanyahu into the hands of the US. He had criticised Shimon Peres, the defeated prime minister, for being too dependent on the US. But in October he [...]

That sparked Rangers into even greater efforts and they came close to an equaliser in the 69th minute, when Laudrup’s shot deflected off a defender and hit a post before bouncing to safety.With 13 minutes remaining Gascoigne finally levelled the scores. Laudrup crossed from the right and, although Lekovic made a superb stop to tip [...]

“I will be recommending to the French football federation that they should stop this move going ahead,” he said.
Arsene Wenger, Arsenal’s manager, was sure the French could not prevent Anelka from taking up a contract at Highbury in June as a free transfer under the Bosman ruling.”The rules in France are that players cannot move [...]

“In the context of double-digit unemployment and weak domestic growth, they need something to bring economies to life.”In theory, imported inflation is a distinct danger whenever a currency weakens, since it raises the price of imported finished goods and raw materials.So far this year, the Swedish kronor has fallen more than 11 per cent against [...]

There was the bitter-sweetness of the parting from Jonathan Davies and, in all probability, Will Carling. In their different ways both have contributed massively to the game’s folklore and history. Neither had the match they would have wished for although Davies’s tap tackle on the flying Guscott early in the second half which saved a [...]

There was a less inspiring sequel when Booth was criticised for auctioning some of Pat Phoenix’s most treasured possessions, including 60 teddy bears, photograph albums and jewellery for an estimated pounds 60,000 after her death.He subsequently married for the third time, Nancy Jaeger, the daughter of a Canadian diplomat, 23 years his junior. But she [...]

Let us content ourselves with the conclusion that Mr Tony Blair is not just the first Labour leader since Wilson but the solitary leader apart from Wilson to go into an election with the expectation and the rational certainty of winning it.It may be me, advancing years or something: but I do not feel any [...]