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This is your sign to pursue a degree Now!

Are you considering pursuing a degree but keep putting it off? Now is a good time, and here's why: we list five reasons to help ...
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How our University can help you boost your career

There's a reason why our students love their time at GBU-Europe and why our graduates always recommend us to their friends and family. Let us ...
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Choose the best programme for your personality type

Choosing a career is not easy. But you'll get there! In our latest blog, we offer some thoughts about how knowing our personality type might ...
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7 Simple Ways to Sharpen your Brain for Studying

Who among us isn't struggling to keep their concentration (and not look at the phone every other minute!) In this new post, we offer some ...
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6 Reasons Why Education Is Important For Our Success 

Is it true that education leads to success? We think so! Read six different ways in which education can change your life.
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10 Must-Have Skills Employers Look For In New Graduates

Irrespective of the industry or job position, all employers look for candidates with soft skills that are not related to academic competence. In this blog, ...
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Get A Master’s Degree: Right After Your Bachelor’s Or Later?

What to do after a Bachelor's degree? When is the best time to do a Master's degree? Difficult questions - but fear not! Read on ...
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How To Promote Yourself Effectively in the Job Market

In this increasingly competitive world, it is paramount that we learn how to market ourselves. Read on for some expert advice on how to build ...
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Thinking College After 30? You Are Not Alone

If a college degree is one of the things you wanted to ‘get hold of’ as you were growing up, then surely you were expecting ...
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How to Keep Track of Your Competitor’s Online Marketing Strategy

Our blogger Ms Chrissy Jones is back with some life-saving tips on how to keep up with competition. Read on! If you have already adopted ...
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Digital Nomads are Redefining What a Career in Marketing Looks Like

Do we live in the age of digital nomads? Our guest editor, Ms Chrissy Jones, is back with an insightful piece – read on!  Today’s ...
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2019 Will Demand New Marketing Tricks From Financial Services

Our guest editor, Chrissy Jones, is back with an exciting new piece on what 2019 might hold for marketers pushing financial services products. Read on!  ...
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Establishing a Solid Social Media Presence for Your Brand

Chrissy Jones is back with another interesting blog, this time on how brands can establish a strong and lasting social media presence. Read on! We ...
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Incorporating Art and Colour To Improve Marketing Success

Our guest editor, Ms Chrissy Jones, is back with an article that will be of interest to all students of marketing on how colour impacts ...
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How To Ensure a Marketing Job Is Legit and Not a Scam

This month, our guest editor, Ms Chrissy Jones, has some hard-earned advice to share: how to make sure your marketing job is not a scam?  ...
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Breaking into Business Marketing

Our guest editor for this instalment is Ms Chrissy Young, who here offers some practical advice on how to break into Business Marketing.  Breaking into ...
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How Remote Workers are Revolutionising the Marketing Industry

Our guest blogger, Chrissy Jones, explains how remote workers are revolutionising the marketing industry. Read on to find out what the future might hold. By ...
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How to Make Friday Your Most Productive Day

Our guest blogger this week is Chrissy Jones, who has some essential advice on a question that has troubled everyone since thebeginning of time: how ...
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STOP!

Our guest blogger, Mr Brian Saunders, challenges us to… STOP!  I’ve just come away from reading two very good blog posts about ‘finding thinking time’. ...
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Mind the Gap: Academic Theories versus Industrial Reality

Our guest blogger this week is Dr Fotis Pavlou, HR expert and established researcher and lecturer. In this post, he debates the merits of combining theory and ...
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Can we go back to reality now?

Our inhouse blogger, Mr Brian Saunders, considerd the perils of relying on technology too much, and pleads: Please, help me touch reality again (Large Reward Offered!) ...
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What do you mean ‘it sucks’?

Our blogger, Mr Brian Saunders, suggests a few ways to ensure that you company does not…suck! In our now predominantly mixed language working and social ...
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Making Lemonade

When life gave lemons to our guest editor, Mr Brian Saunders, he decided to make lemonade!  When life gives you lemons, make lemonade!  There was ...
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Mind the gap

Our guest blogger, Mr Brian Saunders, is feeling very…uninspired today This morning I’ve nothing to say.   That’s how my blog starts.  Not a very amazing ...
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Taking me on

Our guest editor, Mr Brian Saunders, has took up the challenge…to take himself on Have you ever tried out those personal assessments of character, dispositions, ...
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What we can learn from turtles

Our guest editor, Mr Brian Saunders, went swimming in the beautiful sea of Cyprus…and came back with this This summer I had one of those ...
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Where are the remains of your breakfast?

Our guest editor, Brian Saunders, talks about a small change he made in his daily routine…and how small changes can make a large impact on ...
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Turn Blame into Responsibility

When things go badly, successful managers need to look first at themselves and then at others. Our guest blogger, Mr Brian Saunders, muses on how to ...
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‘FRAPPE’…….Your Guide to Choosing an Online Course

CIM (BVI) does not offer any short-term online courses; instead, we award world-class university-level EU degrees. But we get many enquiries every day from individuals ...
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Where are you right now?

Some reflections on business – and life!  People and businesses alike want to be connected. Forming connections with other people fulfils our personal need for ...
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Studying to Music

…pleasures and pitfalls Do you study with music on? Or do you prefer the sound of silence? The blog post below considers the pleasures and ...
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The key to success: Time Management

Whether you are in your first year of studies or your last, time management is an essential skill that if you haven’t already developed-you must. ...
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Why February, the shortest month, is also the hardest when studying.

While February may be famous as the month of the leap year and of Valentine’s Day, it is just as infamous for being one of ...
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Why Distance Learning Works for so many of us

Online learning may be a relatively new concept, but studying remotely has actually been around since 1892.  Online learning may be a relatively new concept, ...
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3 ways to keep you focused after winter holidays

​Now that the winter holidays are over, it is time for all of us to get back into gear.  Now that the winter holidays are ...
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Striving for quality, not quantity.

The idea of quality over quantity is applicable to many situations in life, and also when it comes to learning The idea of quality over ...
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Ace your final exams with the Pomodoro method!

With CIM (BVI) examinations coming up in January, we could all use a tip on how to do our best at exams. With CIM (BVI) ...
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Finding Work-Study Balance

Balancing work and distance-learning studies is by no means an easy feat.   Being able to handle your job responsibilities while meeting the demands of ...
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Studying Online: Your Student Guide

Studying online is currently one of the most popular higher education alternatives and has proved itself to be just as effective as classroom education. With ...
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7 Tips On Being A Successful College Student

Trying to define what makes one student more successful than another is a rather difficult task.  Success can be attributed to a number of factors; ...
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Why MBAs Bring Innovation and Critical Thinking to Companies

When a complex problem arises, companies rely on proactive thinkers to solve them. MBA graduates are given a set of skills that maximize problem solving ...
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Top 5 Strategies for Successful Online Study

More and more people are finding that the flexibility and convenience of studying online is hugely beneficial to their hectic lifestyles and personal life goals. ...
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Part–Time Distance Learning MBAs

A good education is widely accepted as one of the main fundamentals needed for a succesful career in business. Thanks to part-time distance learning, almost ...
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Looking into getting an MBA? Is an MBA what you really need?

An MBA degree is considered one of the most prestigious degrees in the business world and looking into getting one for yourself could end up being one ...
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6 Reasons why you’re Benefiting from Online Learning

The biggest challenges facing most people today are lack of time, flexibility and the cost of tertiary or professional education. The biggest challenges facing most ...
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Home Study, Distance-Learning Education Is Taking Over The World

Undoubtedly, the Internet will always remain an idyll that the world will never stop to remember and appreciate. It has broken down language barriers, country ...
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