Prof. Ross Bennie
Profile
Prof. Ross Bennie Dozent
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Contact hours
Monday afternoon
Tuesday morning
Thursday
Friday -
Address
Berner Fachhochschule
Business School
Institut Marketing & Global Management
Brückenstrasse 73
3005 Bern
Activities
Responsibilities
lecturer in business English
English language services (coaching, proofreading, global competence)
Focus areas
responsible for IBA business English modules IEN1 & IEN2
Teaching
Subjects
business English
business skills
negotiation
business writing
Research
Specialisations
exams which are both fair and based on real-world tasks
CV
Biography
- First things first: Bennie is my *surname*, so please call me Ross.
As I was growing up in Scotland, I never knew what job I wanted to do. I did know what job I didn’t want: with two teachers as parents, I didn’t want to be a teacher. Going to university in the mid ‘80s – Thatcher’s Britain – was all about getting a job after your degree. So I made the biggest mistake of my life and chose electronics (which seemed expedient) instead of geography (which I was interested in and good at).
After a fairly dreary four years at uni I then spent nine even drearier years in IT. Working for the electronics arm of the McLaren Formula 1 team sounds glamorous, but wasn’t. I only got out by getting married. My wife (also from Scotland) got a job at the internet division of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation; over 20 years and two kids later, we’re still here.
Professional experience
- 1988-1990 software engineer STC Telecommunications
- 1991-1997 senior software engineer McLaren Applied
Education
- 1984-88 BSc Electronics & Electrical Engineering University of Edinburgh
- 2005-07 Master's Diploma in Teaching English to Speakers of other Languages University of Cambridge / International House
- 2010 Zertifikat für Hochschuldidaktik BFH
Memberships
Language skills and intercultural knowledge
Language skills
- English - Native or bilingual proficiency
- German - Professional working proficiency
- French - Elementary proficiency
Intercultural knowledge
- Switzerland
- United Kingdom