IBE/EBEN-UK Student Essay Competition in Business Ethics 2003

"Business ethics teaching for management students is vitally important," says Sir Peter Walters.

In presenting the prizes for the first annual IBE/EBEN Student Essay Competition in Business Ethics, Sir Peter Walters, President of the Institute of Business Ethics, pointed out that a recent report on management courses at higher education colleges showed that at both graduate and undergraduate level, business ethics is taught on only half the curriculum . (Cowton & Cummins Teaching Business Ethics in UK Higher Education: Progress & Prospects, Teaching Business Ethics vol 7, 2003)

He congratulated the Institute of Business Ethics (IBE) and the European Business Ethics Network (EBEN-UK) on sponsoring an essay competition to encourage student interest in the topic and the teaching of business ethics to those who will form the business community of the future.

Essay Competition
The inaugural prize for an essay by a postgraduate student of £500 was awarded to Chris Beer of Nottingham Business School for his essay on Stakeholders' Rights. The undergraduate prize of a similar amount was awarded to Martyn Thompson, Manchester Metropolitan University for his entry on "Whistleblowing". Andre Khor from Nottingham University Business School was runner up.

Sir Peter Walters, who is former Chairman of BP said: "It is essential that tomorrow's managers know how to recognise and cope with the ethical dilemmas they will all face in the course of their careers. Business ethics teaching on management courses is vitally important."

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