INTRODUCTION 2018 2018 has been a productive and exciting year for UNE Business School. Delivering exemplary teaching and innovative unit material with our continued focus on developing education and skills for our students to take straight into their workplaces saw UNE ranked first in Australia for overall graduate satisfaction for business postgraduate degrees. Our dedication to making tertiary education accessible to everyone makes this acknowledgement really meaningful. We celebrate our high-achieving students from courses across the School, boasting excellent results at the 2018 IFAMA Student Case Competition in Argentina. Our students worked with others across the Faculty of Science, Agriculture, Business and Law to deliver highly competitive presentations – the months of hard work and dedication showcased UNE dominating the global agribusiness education sector, and we couldn’t be more proud. The success is in no small part shared by UNE staff who we also congratulate. Our students travelled far and wide – alongside the IFAMA competition was an agribusiness study tour to Argentina for 29 students. We also sent an enthusiastic group of students to China for the 2018 Overseas Study Tour unit and enjoyed living vicariously through their Facebook photos. The chance to gain a hands-on understanding of the global context of their education is invaluable, and we’re so pleased to offer these opportunities to undergraduate and postgraduate students. We joined long-standing partners CPA Australia in the 2018 CPA Awards to acknowledge our exceptional Accounting students across the discipline, and thank them in particular for the mentoring and networking opportunities they have provided for our students throughout the year, supported by UNE Business School staff. As always, our academic staff have produced world-class research this year, with some impactful findings leading to exciting developments and discussions with industry bodies. UNE Business School has been represented around the region, the country and the globe at academic and industry conferences, with our HDR students also sharing their PhD projects in the media. Closer to home, students travelled from around the country to take part in an intensive design thinking focused unit. 6 week unit Nucleate ran for the first time this year, welcoming partners Oz Medicann Group into the room to work with some fantastic students on their real-world challenges. Alongside the UNE SMART Region Incubator and Sydney School of Entrepreneurship, we’re putting our innovation-focused students in touch with an entrepreneurial ecosystem to build connections that will endure far beyond their degrees. As always, we’re proud of what we’ve achieved as a School this year, and I’m pleased to share just a small snapshot of the great work that continues to come from UNE Business School. Professor Caroline Gross Head, UNE Business School
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