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BBS Equine Business School of Business

Orientation September 2015

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The First Thing to Do after this session.....

Download your module handbook (see your orientation flyer)...

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Welcome

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Who am I...

• Niamh O’Sullivan
• Programme Director, Equine

Business

• Niamh.c.osullivan@nuim.ie

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Where we live...

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Communicating with the School

• General Administration

– Grainne Mooney – Kathryn Walsh

• Academic Issues

– Lecturer – Programme Director – Head of School

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Programme Directors

• Your first contact for questions on

– The School/Department and the faculty – The course subjects and options – Department policies – Marks and standards

• For module-specific questions

– Talk to your lecturer

If you need to meet your Programme Director

• Email them for an appointment
• Do not turn up at their office without an

appointment

• For general questions use Moodle

– that way everybody learns and the answers get recorded.

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ASK

– We know you are 1st years – We don’t expect you to know everything

If you have questions …

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In Class Via Moodle

– You must log-in regularly – You must check your official emails (xxx@nuim.ie) – This is university not school and acting on messages sent is YOUR responsibility

By text

– Make sure you inform registration of new numbers

Website (Current Students Section)

Official communications

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Good communication between the students/class and the faculty is important Each year of each degree elects a student representative group to meet with the coordinator Raise issues with lecturers on behalf of students where appropriate Attend programme board meetings

Student representative

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Modularisation & Semesterisation

• 1 year = 60 credits (ECTS)
• USUALLY…

– Modules are 5 credits

• With a total workload of approx 125 hours
• Modules
• Formal lectures (typically 24)
• Assignments
• Tutorials
• Project work
• Laboratory work
• Private Study

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Semesterisation

• Each academic year consist of two semesters
• September  January
• February  May
• The academic year usually consist of
• 2 semesters of:

12 teaching weeks 1 study week per semester 1 - 2 exam weeks

• During the semester this corresponds to
• Approx. 40-50 hours total work per week
• 14 lecture hours per week

Business and Management

Modules

• Introduction to Management

and Teams

• Organisational Behaviour
• Innovation – Ideas that

Changed the World

• Business Landscape
• Economics
• Management is a

multidisciplinary field

– Broad range of interesting topics

• Managers

– People who design, lead and sometimes own businesses

Business and Management

• Management

– Examine management of

• rganisations

– Financial analysis – Measurement of performance

• Leadership

– “Management is doing things right, leadership is doing the right things”

(Warren Bennis and Peter

Drucker)

BBS in Equine Business

Unique degree course!

• Discussions with and feedback

from industry

• Continuous involvement of

industry leaders via ;

• Steering Committee
• Guest lecture series/Industry

visits

• Work placement/BBA Option
• International exchange

programme

BBS in Equine Business

• Introduction to the Equine

Industry

• Equine Leisure & Tourism
• Stud Farm Business

Management

• Racecourse & Equine

Event management

• Equine Business Financial

Management

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Plagiarism

– Plagiarism is the passing-off of another person’s work as your

• wn.

– It includes copying without acknowledgement from a published source (print or electronic), or from unpublished sources (e.g. another student’s essay or notes). – Plagiarism also occurs when the substance or argument of a text is copied even with some verbal alterations, such as in paraphrase or translation, without acknowledgement. – The School regulations on plagiarism are in the handbook and

• n the website

Plagiarism is a serious offence

Rules and Regulations

When an examiner opens an essay you have submitted in Turnitin it first looks like this:

The following number appears close to the top:

This tells the examiner the percentage of the essay that is similar to material written by other people that might be available to the student to copy. Percentages in the range of 10 to 15% would cause no worries. Some parts of essays such as titles, originality statements and reference lists will always be similar. But a similarity score of 32% would cause the examiner to click

• n the ‘Originality’ button before marking the essay

And look what happens then!

What was previously just black text on a white background becomes highly coloured.

Each piece of highlighted text has been copied from somewhere else!

Notice also that each highlighted passage has a number.

It gets even better ... for the examiner!

This box appears at the side of the page. It has similar numbers and colours to the highlighted text. These tell the examiner exactly where the text has been taken from. These are hyperlinks so the examiner can go to the original simply by clicking on the coloured text. In this case, the text had been taken from the publications at numbers 2 and 6.

• Rule No. 1:

– Don’t try to plagiarise other work.

• Rule No. 2:

– Make sure you have not plagiarised other work.

Suggestions:

• Avoid excessive quotation from published work as

happened in the example used here

• Make sure all quotes are clearly indicated
• Make sure all quotes and paraphrased material is

clearly referenced

• Do original research

– not just the first page of Google

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CA Policies in the School of Business

CA is completed when:

• On time
• To a satisfactory standard
• All components are submitted

CA non-completion (non-compliance) consequences:

• When compulsory, fail module in its entirety
• regardless of the marks you receive in any other element of

continuous assessment or the examination where applicable. – Progression halted – Required to register internally next year

• Take classes again, repeat assignments and examinations, and

pay full fees

10% reduction per day for late submissions

• On time
• To a satisfactory standard
• All components are submitted

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ECDL

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Honours classifications are awarded in the overall degree examination, according to the following marks criteria: – First Class Honours 70-100% – Second Class Honours, Grade I 60-69% – Second Class Honours, Grade II 50-59% – Third Class Honours, Grade III 45-49% – Pass 40-44%

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Do

• Attend lectures and other class meetings diligently

– Attendance is the easiest way to learn, even if you don’t always feel in top form – Complete all CA on-time (especially when mandatory) – Pay careful attention to your timetable and any amendments. Study it now to make sure you understand it and know where the rooms are.

• Ask questions – from everyone

– Lecturers, other staff, fellow students – Keep asking, until you are satisfied – Use the student support services, when necessary

• Note carefully all communications and instructions

– After being informed once, it is your responsibility to remember and act

General Advice

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Do (2)

• Manage your time carefully

– Allocate regular hours for study and assignments – Avoid bottlenecks with last-minute simultaneous assignment completions or exam preparation

• Be proud of your degree programme and your

participation

– It is a top quality degree programme – With your active participation you will get great value for life from it – Let us hear your opinions on how your experience could be improved

• Keep a good work-life balance

– Your studies require ONLY 40-50 hours per week in total – that leaves a lot of time for play and socialising!

• Make lots of friends

– You’ll have them for life

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Don’t

• Hesitate to ask questions

– You’re never alone in not knowing or being unsure

• Leave too much to the last minute

– Either study, exam preparation or assignment completion

• Be disrespectful to your colleagues or staff

– A professional, enjoyable working environment requires mutual respect

• Be abusive of college property or regulations

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How to read the timetable http://www.nuim.ie/timetable

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Questions?

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Thank you

...and don’t forget to

download your programme handbook!