New head for Lancashire Business School

A Preston academic has been made the youngest Business School Dean in the UK after he was appointed by the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan.)

41-year-old Dharma Kovvuri has been Acting Dean of UCLan’s Lancashire Business School since December 2008 and will now take on the role permanently. His remit is to take forward the School’s vision of becoming one of the top modern Business Schools in the UK.

Dharma commented: “The School's mission is to educate and develop society's future business leaders and entrepreneurs and our agenda, as defined by future plans in higher education, is to provide such development in partnership with business.

“We are well set to respond to this as we already have excellent links with business and work flexibly in delivering programmes. We want to continue building our reputation as a responsive Business School that works closely with business to meet the needs of the economy and society.”

UCLan’s Business School has already made headway in this field by becoming one of thirteen providers of the LEAD Programme, developed with support from the North West Development Agency (NWDA,) which has been specifically designed for owners and senior managers of small businesses with up to 20 employees.

It has also launched a team leadership course for the nuclear-industry that is delivered close to the Sellafield site based at its new Westlakes Campus. In addition, Lancashire Business School has strong links with the call centre industry through an organisation that it has established called CallNorthWest.

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