{"id":24572,"date":"2012-03-29T17:22:36","date_gmt":"2012-03-29T17:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/?p=24572"},"modified":"2012-03-29T17:22:38","modified_gmt":"2012-03-29T17:22:38","slug":"former-ulster-star-matt-mccullough-proved-his-talents-aren%e2%80%99t-limited-to-the-rugby-pitch-when-he-picked-up-the-best-overall-student-award-from-the-university-of-ulster-last-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/former-ulster-star-matt-mccullough-proved-his-talents-aren%e2%80%99t-limited-to-the-rugby-pitch-when-he-picked-up-the-best-overall-student-award-from-the-university-of-ulster-last-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Ulster star Matt McCullough proved his talents aren\u2019t limited to the rugby pitch when he picked up the Best Overall Student Award from the University of Ulster last night."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matt, who graduated with a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) from the Ulster Business School last year, was presented with the accolade at a ceremony in the Jordanstown campus last night.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Management and Leadership\u2019s Awards is a celebration of excellence paying tribute to the skills, hard work and dedication of high achieving students from Ulster\u2019s class of 2010\/2011. <\/p>\n<p>Since graduating Matt has landed a top job with RBS Markets and International Department in The City, London.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen my tenure as a professional rugby player was coming to an end after 10 years, I decided I wanted to get into business. I had done a degree and set up a couple of small businesses but I needed a high level qualification so I could open myself up to as many opportunities as possible,\u201d explained Matt&#8230;.. for the full story click <a href=\"http:\/\/news.ulster.ac.uk\/releases\/2012\/6303.html\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt, who graduated with a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) from the Ulster Business School last year, was presented with the accolade at a ceremony in the Jordanstown campus last night. The Department of Management and Leadership\u2019s Awards is a celebration of excellence paying tribute to the skills, hard work and dedication of high achieving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9535,5032,5687,5772,5711,6231,7392,9532,5801,7115,9536,6119,9533,3959,6695,8573,9534,1997,5697],"class_list":["post-24572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ulster-rugby","tag-arent","tag-award","tag-best","tag-former","tag-last","tag-limited","tag-matt","tag-mccullough","tag-night","tag-overall","tag-picked","tag-pitch","tag-proved","tag-rugby","tag-star","tag-student","tag-talents","tag-ulster","tag-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24572"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24574,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24572\/revisions\/24574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}