Greenforce offers environmental assistance to developing countries to help safeguard the biodiversity of threatened ecosystems. Local wardens and university students work alongside fieldwork assistants to learn skills that will enable them to carry on the work when Greenforce has left. Hannah's team will be based in a wooden beach house on the remote island of Pulau Banggi for ten weeks. The project will involve diving surveys to assess biodiversity on the reefs, and species studies of the rainforests and mangroves. Anna is already over halfway to raising the amount she needs to join the expedition.
Business simulations are an excellent way to put theory into practice.
In this case, the Business School has used specialist computer software developed by a company that normally provides such training packages for executives rather than undergraduates. Using this software the students will be given the task of setting up and running their own car company. The entire second year will take part, amounting to 400 students from both Single and Combined Honours. They are split into teams and students assume the roles of Managing Director, Finance Director, Marketing Director and Operations Director. The teams are expected to make presentations on the viability of their companies to Ford managers and at the end of the project they will produce a written critique of their experience.