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Having problems with your Wi-Fi-Connection?
Posted By: Patrick Menze, Feb 25, 2010

Category: ECBM area

I work now for 1 ˝ years at the European College of Business and Management (ECBM) , and I realised that some of the problems our students have with their computers are recurring.

 

Therefore I believe it is a good idea to write down a few of these problems, and how to solve them (usually they are very easy to solve once you know the problem).

 

Today I want to start with the situation if a student cannot connect his laptop to our network (and therefore cannot use the internet e.g.).

 

As most of our students are using Microsoft Windows on their laptops, this article is written under the assumption that you are using some version of Microsoft Windows. There can be other reasons under MacOS or Linux, but we will not answer them today. More...


ECBM-CMS "leadership" teaching weekend in London
Posted By: Richard Bills, Feb 24, 2010

Category: CMS

The Certificate in Management Studies group based in London were taught over the last weekend, the topic of the weekend’s teaching was ‘leadership’. Seventeen students took part, and these students are all aiming to continue onto the Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Business and Management programme in the next academic year. The CMS is a perfect, flexible, way to start BA studies for Kaufleute who have Abitur and wish to climb the career ladder without joining university full-time. The students will be working hard on their coursework and we wish them all the best for their studies and future career.

 

 

 

 


BBC Local London
Posted By: Alexandra Uhr, Feb 23, 2010


On the BBC website, there is a local part which has location specific news and a lovely archive of articles and small videos.

In the London tag you get the category “Things to do”:  http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/london/hi/things_to_do/default.stm

 

This category contains valuable information about what is going on in London. Here you find which festivals are on at the moment, interesting exhibitions or other special events from the Chinese New Year celebrations to the Southbank Festival of Modern Brazil.

 

And equally interesting is what you can find in the “People and Places” category, where you get sub categories of Nature and Outdoors, History, Religion and Ethics, Arts and Culture and some others.  In the Religion and Ethics category you can read about the Open Jewish Culture Festival or about London’s first state-funded Hindu school.

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For six weeks I have been able to work at the ECBM in London and it was a great experience. My name is Dennis Wilken, I am 20 years old and actually from Germany and in the 2nd year of training for my apprenticeship at the Deutsche Telekom AG as an IT Technician.

 

 

 

At the end of the last year I had the opportunity to come to London and gain experience in working in a foreign country.

But I also took the chance to get to know London and its cultural site. During my stay at the ECBM, I was working as the Assistant of the IT-Coordinator. Setting up Laptops for the teachers or supporting the staff members was my main task here at the ECBM. But there were also several small projects, which made the work varied.

 

Fortunately, it was easy for me to work together with the staff members because everyone is very friendly and helpful.

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London calling!
Posted By: Alexandra Uhr, Feb 17, 2010

Category: London

I am a big fan of London Calling, a video blog on tagesschau.de.

 

It is a short weekly video about London or Britain. Click on the link to get to the archive: http://www.tagesthemen.de/ausland/dossierlondoncalling100.html

 

The ARD correspondent, Annette Dittert, has a very charming way of explaining some of the British peculiarities from a German perspective.

 

I especially like the attention that is given to hidden, non-touristy areas in London which are definitely worthwhile a visit, like Broadway market or the Regent’s Canal. It is also very educational. I did not know anything about the Queen’s speech tradition for example, nor about the debutantes’ ball.

 

Although I have heard about fox hunting and war simulation camps, the London Calling video provides a deeper insight.

 

I am very happy, I found this!


Have you tried turning it off and on again?
Posted By: Patrick Menze, Feb 16, 2010

Category: ECBM area

Some of our readers might know the British TV comedy series “The IT Crowd” which was shown on Channel  4 until recently  (If you haven’t watched it yet, you can still do it online on the Channel 4 website).

 

It is about two IT guys, Roy and Moss, who work in the IT department of a fictional British corporation in central London dealing with their colleagues daily computer problems.

One of the reasons, why I personally like the series so much is because many situations can be directly related to real work situations in an IT department.

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ECBM Bachelor course March 2010- apply now!
Posted By: Juliana Schnell, Feb 15, 2010

Category: Information/ FAQs

BA course enrolment will only last a few more weeks.
Apply now if you wish to secure your place!

For further information go to www.eurocollege.org.uk/en/bachelor/bac-quick/


or email aschak@eurocollege.org.uk or jschnell@eurocollege.org.uk

Course start:
• 12 March 2010
• Teaching locations: Stuttgart, London

We are looking forward to hearing from you.

 

 


ECBM news in February 2010
Posted By: Richard Bills, Feb 15, 2010

Category: News

Richard Bills has just been to Munich to meet students and discuss future plans with partners. The college is building its links up for next year in both Munich and Berlin, so there will be more to report soon we hope.

 

Timetabling is in the draft stage and we hope to have the published versions ready for April. We are already preparing for another very good academic year in 2010-11, but there are still places available on both our DMS/MBA and CMS/Bachelor programmes for this spring.

 

Contact Anna Schak (aschak(at)eurocollege.org.uk) or Juliana Schnell (jschnell(at)eurocollege.org.uk) at the College for further details.

 

 

 


The Learning Pyramid and Student Centered Learning
Posted By: Alexandra Uhr, Feb 09, 2010

Category: News

The Learning Pyramid illustrates how much of the teaching content is retained by the students on average for each of the different teaching methodologies. Although the percentages should not be regarded as exact, I very much like this model as it ranks the different teaching strategies. Based on my personal experience, both as a student and as a lecturer, I regard this as a realistic hierarchy.

 

 

The old style traditional way of the teacher just lecturing and the students just listening results in the students remembering just 5% of what has been taught on average.  If you believe in that, then it is a lot of work and effort for the teacher to fill his or her whole lecture with input and it is not even beneficial for the students who on average retain only very little from what has been said. Additionally students might come out of the lecture saying that it was really boring.

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What skills do students develop when studying at ECBM?
Posted By: Alexandra Uhr, Feb 09, 2010

Category: News

What type of skills do you need to have a chance in today’s competitive working environment? If you just graduated from university you might find it difficult to find a job because of your lack of practical working experience, while if instead of having gone to university you started working straight away you lack the relevant academic qualifications for certain higher level jobs or careers.

 

In my opinion, a healthy balance of practical skills and academic skills is the golden formula for success.

 

ECBM students who are following one of our Business and Management Programmes are often working full time while attending our courses on weekends or sometimes on weekdays. More...


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