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16 students from Accounting and Finance courses within The University of Northampton’s Business School have picked up prizes at the annual Accounting and Finance Awards at Sunley Conference Centre, Park Campus. 

The awards – presented across undergraduate, postgraduate and professional courses – recognise outstanding performance of the students within their studies.

The full list of award winners are:

• Exceptional Performance in ACCA Studies – Michael Haywood
• Best Overall in Year 1 Non-Specialist Accounting – Kirstie Gray
• Outstanding Achievement in Year 1 BAAF – Tryagain Kashaya
• Best Overall in Year 2 Non-Specialist Accounting – Daniel Rhodes
• Outstanding Achievement in BAAF – Anish Chudal
• Best Overall in Year 2 BAAF – Adam Rippin
• Best in Audit – Syeda Rizvi
• Best in Advanced Accounting – Amarjit Makkar
• Best in Corporate Finance – Dana Iliuta
• Best in Financial Strategy – Andrew Nelson
• Best in Taxation – Matthew Swift
• Best Dissertation – Samina Begum
• Best Overall in Year 3 BAAF – Christopher Beale
• Best Overall Distance Learner Non-Specialist Accounting – Martin Timms
• Best in Corporate Reporting MSc Accounting & Finance – Weilan Huang
• Best Overall MSc Accounting – Ikenna Onyekwelu

Christopher Cook, Divisional Leader, Accounting, Finance and Information Service, Northampton Business School, The University of Northampton, commented:

“We congratulate all students being presented with awards on their hard work and achievements. They have bright futures ahead of them in the accounting and finance industries.”

The awards featured a keynote speech by Steve Robinson, Partner at Grant Thornton, a leading chartered accountancy firm.

Northampton Business School wishes to thank all sponsors of the awards – PQ Magazine, BPP, LANSCA, McIntyre Hudson, Hawsons, Nationwide, Hays Recruitment, Grant Thornton and Deborah Harry.

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On Saturday 3rd March the water supply to the whole of Park Campus will need to be shut down for a period of about four hours to enable a serious leak to be repaired. It is envisaged that the water will be turned off at 09:00 hrs and should be back on soon after Midday.

The Estates Department would appreciate your co-operation in ensuring taps are not left turned on as when the water is switched on there may be the possibility of overflowing from basins, sinks etc. We apologise for this inconvenience and will endeavour to ensure this disruption is minimised.

For further information telephone facilities helpdesk on 2888 or e-mail :- facilities.helpdesk@northampton.ac.uk

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The Occupational Health and Safety Office have produced two guidance documents on mental health conditions. Although one is specifically aimed at providing line managers with advice about managing an employee with a mental health condition; it will be of benefit to all employees.

 The second document is aimed at providing all employees some basic information about mental health conditions and the sources of support that are available if needed.

If you would like any further information please visit OHS website http://www.northampton.ac.uk/downloads/download/608/occupational-health/20296 

or feel free to contact the OHS office directly.

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The University has signed up to the Government’s Public Health Responsibility Deal. The Responsibility Deal is the Government’s way of drawing on the potential of employers in both the private and public sectors to help tackle health inequalities through the influence they have over health in the workplace, alcohol, food and physical activity.

By signing up to the deal, the University is committing to a set of core and supporting pledges, but also to a range of specific pledges. These pledges set out the steps the University is taking to support this initiative. We need to keep the Department of Health informed as to how we aim to meet our pledges, and we will update the relevant pledge information on the web accordingly.

Further information can be found on the OHS website http://www.northampton.ac.uk/info/20296/occupational-health-and-safety/1673/public-health-responsibility-deal

or you can contact Paul Bradley directly paul.bradley@northampton.ac.uk

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There is a scheduled firewall upgrade for tomorrow evening (Thursday 5 January) at 5pm to replace both the University border firewalls (external access to the internet) AND the internal firewall (internal access to some admin systems). It is estimated that there will be some downtime of up to 30 minutes during the switch over to the new firewalls.

The upgrade is essential in order to provide added resilience, security and higher throughput to university systems.

Apologies for any inconvenience this may cause.

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