EFM News

Shaun Miller

Silicon Valley beckons for aspiring entrepreneur Shaun

9 May 2012

A University of Bristol student has won a prestigious scholarship, beating off competition from hundreds of students across the country to win the opportunity to learn from top entrepreneurs in the United States and the UK.

Upcoming Financial Reporting Conference

8 May 2012

The Financial Reporting and Business Communication Research Unit's Conference is to be held in Bristol on 5/6th July 2012

Flying the Flag for the School of EFM

23 March 2012

Shirley Hume, a teaching fellow within the department of Accounting and Finance has been selected as a torchbearer for the London 2012 Olympic Torch Relay, which will be watched by millions of people across the world.

EFM Annual Gala Dinner

20 February 2012

Students and staff enjoyed the annual social event of a formal dinner. This year the dinner was in the Royal West Academy and the evening was accompanied by music from the university's big band

Youth Unemployment - The Crisis we cannot Afford

9 February 2012

CMPO members Lindsey Macmillan, Jack Britton along with Professor Paul Gregg (of the University of Bath) have contributed towards a new report published by the Commission on Youth Unemployment finds that youth unemployment has reached emergency point. With 1 in 5 young people not in employment, education or training and a quarter of a million unemployed for over a year, the Commission says youth unemployment is not only one of the greatest challenges facing the country in human terms, but is also a £28bn timebomb under the nation’s finances.

NHS hospital mergers bring few benefits, research finds

11 January 2012

Mergers are unlikely to be the most effective way of dealing with poorly performing NHS hospitals, according to new research from the Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO). The study by Professor Carol Propper and colleagues finds that the wave of hospital consolidation in the late 1990s and early 2000s – in which around half the acute hospitals in England were involved in a merger – brought few benefits.