Global Skills Development

The Global Skills Development (GSD) caters to all students across the Business School focusing mainly on academic and professional writing, presenting and team working skills. The provision involves lecture-size and small-group workshops, one-to-one support, and online delivery.

GSD supports students’ success both on their academic programme and with their careers objectives by providing a range of communication, language and study skills advice and teaching across the Business School.

Our provision is year-round, face-to-face, and online. It includes:

• workshops on teams working, including cross-cultural competence
• 1-to-1 English language support for academic purposes
• programme specific report writing and presentation workshops
• 1-to-1 study skills and exam preparation consultations
• presentation rehearsals for assessed module assignments
• language checks for CV and cover letters and interview preparation
• online study skills modules available on the Hub