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UCD Smurfit School

We're partnering with UCD Smurfit School to offer one Fora reader an MBA scholarship

Supporting tomorrow’s business innovators with an opportunity worth up to €34,500.

HERE AT FORA, we bring you the important news and insights from Ireland’s business leaders, innovators and entrepreneurs every day.

To give something back to our readers and support the business community, we’re partnering with Ireland’s leading business school, UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School, to offer one reader a career-changing opportunity: a fully-paid scholarship for an MBA, starting in August 2017.

The Fora Scholarship will cover either a part- or full-time MBA course, worth up to €34,500.

So if you’re interested in taking your business career to the next stage, read on.

Why a Smurfit School MBA?

If you’re serious about being successful, an MBA from UCD Smurfit School may be for you. Smurfit has over 50 years of experience in providing a high-quality MBA qualification. Learning is undertaken in small groups, with a focus on real-world global projects, team assignments and a comprehensive leadership development programme.

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UCD Smurfit School’s MBA Alumni Network offers a 3,500 strong network of MBAs across the globe – a ready-made and far-reaching network at your disposal. Clubs, workshops and guest speakers are your key to unlocking corporate and startup contacts.

A little about UCD Smurfit School

Located in Blackrock, Co Dublin, UCD Smurfit School is the only Irish institute that has made it into the top 100 in the Financial Times rankings of MBA programmes for the last 18 consecutive years. The School also holds the prestigious ‘triple crown’ of accreditation from AACSB, EQUIS and AMBA alongside only 74 other schools worldwide.

The Smurfit MBA is a member of the Global Network for Advanced Management (GNAM), a global alliance of leading business schools including Yale, London School of Economics and University of California Berkeley.

Hear from UCD Smurfit School Alumna of the Year 2016 Julie O’Neill (MBA 1996):

UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School / YouTube

Great! How can I enter?

We’re glad you asked.

To be in with a chance to receive this unique MBA scholarship opportunity, all you need to do for now is to sign up for Fora’s weekly newsletter.

You’ll receive our one-stop roundup of the week’s business news and expert advice specifically tailored for the SME and startup sector – and, in the coming weeks, we’ll also be giving out full details on how, when and where to make your scholarship application.

To be in the running, just enter your email address in the form below. The competition will be open exclusively to new and existing subscribers.

Once you’ve signed up, you simply need to fill in your details on the competition page of the UCD Smurfit School’s websiteEntries close 27 February, 2017.

Good luck!

All applicants must have a university degree or professional qualification and a minimum of three years’ professional experience. You must also provide a LinkedIn profile.

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    May 20th 2017, 12:16 AM

    It is important that An Garda Siochana are subject to the law as the rest of us are. The rule of law is an important part of any democracy.

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    May 20th 2017, 9:12 AM

    @Tony Daly: we have a truly rotten police force from the top to the poor lad just out of templemore who apparently has to sleep in his car eating pot noodle.

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    May 20th 2017, 11:50 AM

    @Tony Daly:

    Of course you are right. However, and I don’t mean this in any disparaging way, this comment is much like what a politician would say and then leave it hanging in mid air.

    We all know what is needed but if the leader of our country, the minister for justice and all the other political groups do nothing about the corruption which permeates our country, we will just have to put up with it. That is if we as citizens don’t do something ourselves.
    Regards.

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    May 20th 2017, 1:15 PM

    @Tony Daly: large pich of slat required with anything a shinner says… you couldnt trust them to tell the time never mind the truth

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    Mute #Right2change
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    May 20th 2017, 12:30 AM

    Democracy is crumbling in front of all our eyes!! FF/FG ignore will of Irish people when it came to water and now ignore parliamentary vote on AIB shares. Are we to believe they even care about the crumbling Gardai ?

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    May 20th 2017, 12:27 AM

    I’m exhausted as to how this ministers incompetence is seen as one of those things and tonight she will bed Leo to keep her job

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    May 20th 2017, 12:09 AM

    if true its sound like the gardai were doing some fantastic work, long may it continue

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    Mute iluvkief/Tá mé dom
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    May 20th 2017, 7:05 AM

    @booby sandwiches: a good job by what setting up the competition?or some fella because the cop fancies his girlfriend?or someone who didn’t give up his seat in the pub? or beat him in darts? You must be a member of stackers

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    May 20th 2017, 1:16 PM

    @iluvkief/Tá mé dom: your inferiority complex is alarming but very amusing :D

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    May 20th 2017, 6:51 AM

    It all boils down to the fact that a corrupt government needs a corrupt police force, and that a corrupt police force needs a corrupt government, or neither will thrive.
    The government are not interested in Gardai corruption and the Gardai have no interest in investigating the wholesale corruption in the government and those who surround government.

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    May 20th 2017, 7:55 AM

    @Dave Doyle: identify one case evidencing ‘wholesale corruption’ in government of illegal or criminal behaviour and you get a lifetime’s supply of tin foil

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    May 20th 2017, 11:17 AM

    @Dave Doyle: does that apply to northern ireland also, SF in government, corruption is rife, fake research companies anyone??

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    May 20th 2017, 7:49 AM

    What’s wrong with:
    engaged active criminals as informants
    used informants they have control over to entrap and prosecute people

    Is that not the whole point in Gardai infiltrating criminal networks?

    Heartwarming that Sinn Fein are concerned about such things.

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    May 20th 2017, 11:18 AM

    @alphanautica: exactly it sound like the polic are doing a fantastic job if everything that shinner is saying is true. but its a shinner so its most likely all lies

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    May 20th 2017, 4:47 AM

    is Michelle (author) on first name terms with the Sinn Fein deputy referring to him at one stage as Martin while no such courtesy applies to the minister.-just proves i read the article.

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    Mute Joe Burns
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    May 20th 2017, 11:02 AM

    But don’t worry folks, keep voting FG/FF and it will all get sorted. Sure aren’t we in recovery? The fastest growing economy in Europe, lots of jobs for people who want to work and 280,000 empty houses out there to rent. Keep the recovery going and the EU and IMF will look after us.

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    May 20th 2017, 7:48 AM

    Beware the ,”Long finger of the Law”

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    May 20th 2017, 9:40 AM

    The Shinners minding their own again !

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    May 20th 2017, 11:05 AM

    That’s why she is not on the leader ticket. Costly friendship! !

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    May 20th 2017, 1:20 PM

    that shinner should get used to being ignored, it is going to have to deal with it daily for the rest of its life :D

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