MA Management
"I am the second scholarship student to come to London Met from
Kyrgyzstan. After finishing my degree (a BA in Economics), I was
working in an auditing company there. Then I was offered a job at Osh
State University, to teach courses in Management, Business Ethics and
Economics — and I have been working there for almost three years. While
I was there, I was involved in starting up one of five branches of
Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) in central Asia. We set this SIFE
branch up in 2002, with the aim of encouraging universities and their
students to develop and undertake social, educational and economic
projects, often with sponsorship from or in partnership with external
organisations.
As a motivational tool to encourage the universities and students to
take part, we set up competitions to judge the best projects, with
high-profile judges from different industries. It worked really well,
since it was a great learning experience for the students, it helped to
raise the profile and prestige of the universities involved, and the
external companies found it useful both as a recruitment exercise and
also in being able to progress various projects.
While I have been at London Met, I have just helped to create our
first London Met team, and have taken part in a SIFE training programme
with representatives from all over Britain. I am working to publicise
it at the moment at events such as the Freshers Fair. Our projects here
involve empowering and mobilising unemployed people — we try to address
their real needs, and help them work on the skills they need to find a
job. Our other project involves supporting sporting events at primary
schools, including taking them through business plans. I hope that we
can repeat the success we had with SIFE in Kyrgyzstan, since there are
now national and international competitions."
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