Business Schools: What the numbers mean

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Business Schools What the numbers mean
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Introduction

• Numbers of international students
• Numbers within Business Schools
• Comments as an accounting professional and an
  academic
• Applicability of comments

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• The breadth of student cohort
• Business students themselves
• Applicable literature for advice on teaching
  large classes
• BIMDAS

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The breadth of student cohort

• Domestic and international students
• Two groups of internationals
• Onshore,
• Offshore, either in home countries or at points
  in transit to onshore.

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Onshore International Students

• Influences
• the nature of the secondary schooling process
  and,
• the language proficiency.
• Sub-groups
• English as a first language
• English as a first language but not spoken at
  home
• Traditional ESL

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Business students themselves

• Entertainers or politicians
• Entrepreneurs
• Passion - or where the money is

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Applicable literature

• Lack of literature
• Technical literacy
• Sources of income vs expense items

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BIMDAS

• B the building blocks, the banding and
  bracketing of technical knowledge
• I is the interpretation, integration and mental
  indexing
• M D are the depth and meaning of the technical
• A S are the automatic and systematic
  understanding

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• BIMDAS recognises
• there are technical issues to the subject
• interpretation of the technical
• application of the technical
• Examples
• Assets
• Breakeven

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Initiatives

• Priors vs no priors
• Assessment
• Uniqueness
• A S elements
• UK
• Split and isolate
• Small classes

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Offshore International Students

• Colonisation again
• Local issues

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Where to from here?