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The UQ Business School Master of Business Administration (MBA) program has been praised for teaching excellence at the 2014 Australian Awards for University Teaching in Canberra.

UQ alumnus and entrepreneur Pablo Farias Navarro’s latest venture exceeded his crowdfunding goal of $4000 in just 11 hours and grew to over $20 000 within a couple of days.

Germany recently joined other European nations by enforcing a 30 per cent quota of women to fill supervisory positions in their largest companies and Dr Polly Parker from UQ Business School says Australia should do the same.

Helping students manage the demands of studying law is the aim of a new program at The University of Queensland’s TC Beirne School of Law.

2015 may deliver better value mobile phone services in Australia, as Telstra and Optus throw millions of dollars at creating strong and more widespread mobile networks.

Australian law was not keeping up with the advent of weapons - including firearms - produced by three dimensional technology, said Dr Andreas Schloenhardt, a Professor of Criminal Law at The University of Queensland’s T.C. Beirne School of Law.

The proposed free trade agreement (FTA) between Australia and India will be hugely valuable to Australian businesses as India’s economy booms, says Dr Paul Brewer of UQ Business School.

A team of University of Queensland Master of Business Administration students were selected as one of six finalists in The G20 Global Business Challenge, a competition 140 postgraduate student teams from the world’s leading business schools in November 2014.

People around the world are rallying together to raise awareness of the world’s first Global Divestment Day.

Dirt cheap petrol prices are the unofficial icon of the recent Christmas holidays.

University of Queensland student Zoe Brereton was in the thick of studying for law exams when she learned she had been selected as Australia’s New Colombo Plan Fellow to India.

Recently, ridesharing company Uber has been featured in the press for all the wrong reasons – tax evasion, assault claims, and a drastic increase of charges during the Sydney siege emergency.

Channel Ten is up for sale, and broadcasters all over the world want in.

In the light of the G20, Australia has announced a momentous deal with one of the world’s largest economies.

As the G20 euphoria has fizzled out, the Federal Government must address the issue which became the ‘heart of the G20’ – energy – here in Australia.

Former Australian Prime Minister Mr Bob Hawke recently addressed the Asia Pacific Forum hosted by UQ on Monday (17 November).

The University of Queensland’s Business, Economics & Law (BEL) Faculty lured serious rugby star power to its highly successful inaugural rugby benefit dinner in New York on 6 November.

Virgin Australia recently scored Tigerair Australia for the bargain price of $1!

On 28 October 2014, the Springfield Land Corporation (SLC) and the Australian Institute for Business and Economics (AIBE) hosted a forum on accessible housing in Greater Springfield.

The human rights of corrupt politicians, terrorists and organised criminals are the topic of debate in a new book by University of Queensland academic Dr Radha Ivory.