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Top Marks For Outstanding Marketing Graduate
Thursday December 18th, 2008
Janice Rowe, A Newcastle Business School graduate has won an award for her hard work after getting the highest marks in her MA degree.
Janice Rowe received the Chartered Institute of Marketing North East Postgraduate Student of the Year Award as she graduated from the two-year part-time MA in Marketing course at Newcastle Business School.
The 25-year-old from Monkseaton, Whitley Bay, carried on working in her full-time job at as a communications officer at Northumberland College while working towards her degree but still achieved a distinction.
She said, "It was difficult balancing work life and study but it was definitely worthwhile and I enjoyed my time at Northumbria University.
Prize Winner Janice Rowe with Programme Director Richard Gay
"I was very surprised when I found out I would receive the award and that I had the highest marks in my class.”
Richard Gay, Programme Director of Postgraduate Studies in Marketing and Logistics, said, "Janice has produced an outstanding set of results across the MA Marketing programme to achieve her distinction. To do it by part - time study shows a high degree of commitment to develop her marketing skills and knowledge.
"Janice completed the programme with an excellent dissertation report that applied marketing concepts to an important work place issue at Northumberland College where she is employed. The programme has always been very successful in providing a platform for career progression.
"Rather than rest on our laurels, we are looking to relaunch a new flexible part-time Masters in Marketing from September 2009."
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