BUSINESS experts are hosting a series of lectures at the University of Greenwich as part of a new degree programme.

Chris Winter, engineer and member of the IBM academy of technology, was the first to give a talk on technology-led business at the campus in Chatham Maritime.

The lectures are open to students studying Information Technology Management for Business courses all over the UK.

Students from various universities can benefit from the course which has been developed with the assistance of BT, Hewlett Packard and IBM.

Mr Winter said: "As a company, we want to recruit the business leaders of the future."