The dramatic spread of the coronavirus is painfully changing the world we live and the way market operates. During this difficult time, The University of Manchester China Centre tried our best to come up with strategies to deal with those unprecedented challenges brought by the ongoing Covid 19.

In the past three months, UoM China Centre has been actively cooperated with leading academics from the University of Manchester by hosting a series of online masterclasses and webinars in China open to the public, which provided attendees with great opportunity to learn from world-leading minds with diverse range of business projects. Together with our alumni community’s support, we invited our senior alumni and guest speakers to deliver keynote speech and industrial talk to enhance our programmes reputation. Also, our student support team proactively organized events to enrich our students learning experience with us.

Only in the darkness, you can see the stars. Under the environment of fear and uncertainty, I believe that working together with one heart will bring everyone a new life!

Sherry Fu

China Centre Director

I appreciate this is a very worrying time and this decision was taken to protect the health and wellbeing of our students and staff, which is our primary concern. These are challenging times and unprecedented arrangements. I am very proud of the way our University community is rallying together in these difficult circumstances. The most important thing we can do over the coming weeks and months is to support each other.

Named one of Shanghai’s most outstanding women in 2019, Sherry Fu established The University of Manchester China Centre in 2008 – the first dedicated executive centre of a UK business school in Shanghai. It is now one of the University’s largest overseas hubs. Women’s resilience to stress and their persistence to face uncertainty and challenges helped me move forward under pressure. I believe it is the most positive capacity of women to thrive despite adversity.

The Financial Times has today ranked Alliance Manchester Business School (AMBS) 5th in the UK, 11th in Europe and 45th in the world in its annual ranking of the world’s best MBAs.The FT found that the Class of 2016 MBA alumni enjoy a 103% salary increase three years after graduation, earning $128,745 on average. The School is ranked 31st in the world for Career Progress which is calculated according to changes in the level of seniority and size of company alumni are working in now compared to before their MBA.

At The University of Manchester, our people are working together and with partners from across society to understand coronavirus (COVID-19) and its wide-ranging impacts on our lives. Researchers, teachers, students and professional service staff are combining their knowledge to contribute to the local, national and international response to the disease. This brings together the research and innovation strengths of our partnerships in an unprecedented way to focus on this public health crisis.