Our Achievements
Our latest success stories
From Left to Right: Lynne Atkin (Barclays), Vanessa Knowles (Principal Lecturer in Corporate Education & Work-Based Learning at Anglia Ruskin University), Lee Crowley (Barclays), Jane Nuttall (Barclays), Shaun Meakins (Barclays), Adam Wynne (Second Year Trainee at Barclays) and Mel Donoghue (Barclays)
10 April 2013
Corporate Work-based Learning Degree Wins National Award
Lord Ashcroft International Business School (LAIBS) celebrated another major achievement on 3 April when, in partnership with Barclays plc, they were announced the winners of one the prestigious National Target Jobs 2013 People Awards.
Barclays and Anglia Ruskin University have, in partnership, successfully designed, developed and managed the Retail Development Programme (RDP), which has at its heart the BA (Hons) Management & Leadership. The programme specifically targets new talent to the business with the aim of the trainees achieving the position of Branch Manager or equivalent within 3 years of joining the programme.
Now that the programme has seen 3 cohorts successfully graduate and is nearing the completion of its recruitment for the sixth consecutive cohort of 40 students, the management information data was available to tell a significant "valued added" success story and also highlight significant achievements in relation to diversity, retention, academic success and simultaneous career progression.
The Best School Leaver Programme is a new category for 2013 and winning is a particularly notable achievement, as this award was determined by a panel of apprentices and undergraduates facilitated by a team of mentors drawn from industry and agencies. The shortlisted competition for the award was extremely strong, namely; Accenture, Aviva, Bank of England, Deloitte, Ernst & Young, CGI, Siemens and Rolls-Royce.
Vanessa Knowles and Rachael Hall were delighted with the award and the national recognition that it represents. They once again attributed the success to everyone who had been involved with the programme from the idea inception through to the on-going management and delivery of what has become one of the Business School's flagship programmes
Vanessa Knowles
Principal Lecturer in Corporate Education and Work-based Learning
Winning a second award this academic year with this innovative, work-based degree programme continues to showcase how Lord Ashcroft International Business School is developing its practice based agenda and contributing to the University's wider corporate goal in relation to successfully sustaining Employer Engagement activity. We are all so delighted that this second National Award will further strengthen the University's reputation in the corporate arena.
21 Feb 2013
Record pass rates achieved in Accounting exams
Accounting students from Anglia Ruskin University's Lord Ashcroft International Business School in Chelmsford achieved an 80% pass rate in the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) December 2012 exams compared with an average of 45% for the 200,000 students who sat the exams worldwide.
Such success follows the start of a programme of development of accounting and finance courses at the Business School which includes full time, part time and block release programmes for professional qualifications, degrees, masters and CPD (Continuing Professional Development).
This exam success and course expansion has contributed to over 90% of Anglia Ruskin Accounting students obtaining employment or moving on to on further career development having successfully completed their courses of study.
An independent survey of ACCA lecturers indicated a 95% rating for enthusiasm and knowledge which is reinforced by their involvement in a number of research projects which will ensure that the curriculum reflects the latest developments in a fast changing economic environment.
For more information about the ACCA courses, please contact Tony Stringer - tony.stringer@anglia.ac.uk or Sam Wilson - sam.wilson@anglia.ac.uk
7 November 2012
Further Achievement for the MA Corporate Governance degree in Chelmsford
ICSA Software has agreed to allow successful graduates of the MA Corporate Governance course to be given certificates of basic competence in the use of their commercial software.
ICSA Software produces a software programme called Blueprint which is used by most of the world's largest companies to complete and maintain their statutory books. The award of the certificates is in recognition of the comprehensiveness and effectiveness of the tuition offered on the MA Corporate Governace/GradICSA and is not subject to further referral to ICSA Software on an individual student basis. The MA Corporate Governance at Lord Ashcroft International Business School (LAIBS) is unique among Masters level courses in the subject, in using Blueprint to act as the platform for much of the tuition on one of its central modules. Blueprint was introduced to the course five years ago.
Stephen Bloomfield
Director of the Corporate Governance Unit at LAIBS
This is further recognition of the class-leading characteristics of the MA Corporate Governance which has been consistently commended by external examiners for its content and coverage. Graduates of the course now receive an academic award of the highest calibre, a professional qualification and tuition in commercial software recognised as a sound platform for further development.
31 October 2012
Barclays degree lands national award
Anglia Ruskin's work-based learning programme is recognised by the CIPD
Anglia Ruskin University, in partnership with Barclays plc, has won the Talent Attraction and Management Category at the prestigious CIPD National 2012 People Management Awards.
Barclays and Anglia Ruskin's Lord Ashcroft International Business School have successfully designed, developed and managed the Retail Development Programme (RDP), which has adopted the BA (Hons) Management & Leadership degree as its academic award. The RDP specifically targets new talent to the business with the aim of the trainees achieving the position of branch manager, or equivalent, within three years of joining the programme.Since the programme has now seen three cohorts successfully graduate, there was a significant amount of management information data available to tell a compelling "valued added" success story, and also highlight achievements in relation to diversity, retention, academic success and simultaneous career progression.
Anglia Ruskin was shortlisted alongside Boots plc, Cape, MITIE Group plc and NHS London (Strategic Health Authority), and won first place after delivering a presentation and being interviewed by a panel of judges, which comprised of representatives from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), Hays, and Marks & Spencer plc.
The judges commended Barclays and Anglia Ruskin "for their innovative work-based undergraduate assessment and degree, placing emphasis on the cultural value the programme has given rise to through creating opportunities for a broad pool of candidates - many of which have come from disadvantaged backgrounds".
Will Rist, one of the first Anglia Ruskin graduates from the programme, was invited to attend the awards evening in recognition of his career success and on-going contributions to the Retail Development Programme. Other representatives included Anglia Ruskin's Vice Chancellor Professor Michael Thorne, Course Leaders Vanessa Knowles and Rachael Hall, and Johannah Lynch, the RDP Programme Manager at Barclays.
Vanessa Knowles
Course Leader, Lord Ashcroft International Business School
This work-based degree programme is an excellent example of how the Lord Ashcroft International Business School is successfully developing its practice-based agenda and employer engagement activity.
22 August 2012
LAIBS wins funding to promote social entrepreneurship
Anglia Ruskin University's corporate plan commits us to promoting enterprise and entrepreneurship to students. An important part of this work is around social entrepreneurship and social enterprise: businesses and ventures established for social purposes rather than private profit. A team led from the Business School has just been successful in a funding bid, securing £25,000 from the HEFCE/UnLtd Social Entrepreneurship HE Support Initiative. The funding will be used to give awards to Anglia Ruskin staff and students (including recent graduates) who have an idea for a social venture.
Andy Brady, who wrote the successful bid, stressed that the funding was part of a wider process of social enterprise support within the university.
4 May 2012
Anglia Ruskin receives Gold approval under the Approved Learning Partner student tuition programme
We are pleased to announce that Anglia Ruskin has been awarded Gold approval under the Approved Learning Partner - student tuition programme in recognition of the quality of tuition provision and support for ACCA students.
Tim Spencer
Senior Lecturer at LAIBS
The award of Gold Status is recognition of the hard work of both staff and students on our ACCA course. Continuing to meet the stringent requirements required for the award will provide significant benefit to our students and our reputation as top class provider of accountancy tuition
More success stories
12 April 2012
IBM UBC Challenge - Update
We are pleased to report that our our Anglia Ruskin University/Hochschule f. Wirtschaft und Recht Berlin Team won the IBM University Business Challenge for the second time in a row, after 5 of our 11 teams had made it to the semi finals. The grand final took place on 23 March 2012 at IBM UK, Bedfont Lakes, London.
7 March 2012
'Where there is a will, there is a way!'
Yuliya's success story (international student from Kazakhstan)
For someone like me, with a passion for learning and experiencing new things, it was a wonderful opportunity to study in the UK at Anglia Ruskin University. I chose to study at Anglia Ruskin, because I found the course exactly suitable for my interests. It was quite exciting to study together with not only nice but clever people. Studying here never let me relax and kept my mind busy. The discipline of studying made me become more independent and self-reliant. I learned how to cope with obstacles on my own and considerably improved my self-management skills as regards handling problems.
Concerning the teaching methods and module content, it has stimulated my academic skills development and critical thinking. I would like to emphasize that the academic staff is highly qualified and knowledgeable, with special thanks to the English support teams who were always ready to help international students in overcoming all language-related difficulties.
It was an interesting challenge at all stages. At various points, it did get harder but it was never boring. I have acquired a valuable experience which genuinely contributed to my personal and professional development and opened up new horizons. I would recommend anyone to study at Anglia Ruskin. It is worth a mention here that there is a great difference between studying abroad and in your home country, because apart from the studying itself, this is a wonderful life experience. A different cultural milieu let me discover and experience so many things.
The additional advantage of LAIBS is the location of course. Cambridge is a fantastic place to study and evolve mentally to a different level. The atmosphere is just right and enriches the environment for learning. Having completed my Masters, I feel so inspired to continue with a PhD in the field of the CSR for the next couple of years.
Overall, though in the beginning, it seemed to be too difficult for a single person to tackle, a firm commitment on my part yielded a great sense of satisfaction. I would like to finish by referring to the saying 'Where there is a will, there is a way'. All my life I have followed this maxim which finally led me to doing my Masters at Anglia Ruskin.
I really enjoyed my time there and I have truly fallen in love with Anglia Ruskin, Cambridge and the UK!!!
26 July 2011
John McCullough (left) with John Webb
Congratulations John McCullough on 25 years at Anglia Ruskin University
For a generation, John McCullough's has been a larger than life character in the Lord Ashcroft International Business School and the business school was delighted to recently celebrate John's 25 years at Anglia Ruskin University.John joined the then Danbury Park Management Centre in 1986 and was heavily involved in the design, management and delivery of the postgraduate Certificate in Management and Diploma in Management Studies. For many years, John was the focal point of an extremely successful Diploma in Management Studies residential where teams of postgraduate students worked tirelessly for three days to produce a real business plan for real clients, culminating in a public presentation of their plan which included the Greenwood management prize committee. John also managed a major consultancy project with Essex Police and was instrumental in the development of the Business School discussion paper series.
With the opening of the Michael Ashcroft Building in Chelmsford in 2005, John joined colleagues from the central campus and became part of the undergraduate and professional course teams facing this new world with the same level of enthusiasm as he devoted to the courses at Danbury.
July 2011
Mrinal Chakraborty - Winner of the 10th Trimo Research Award
Mrinal Chakraborty (left) with the 10th Trimo Research Award
In March 2011, Mrinal Chakraborty completed his MA in Human Resource Management at LAIBS in Cambridge and has now won the 10th Trimo Research Award for his outstanding master thesis being the first Indian and first Anglia Ruskin student to have ever received this award.
Before coming to the UK to study in 2009, Mrinal's, my main focus from 2001 to 2009 was to develop as a motivational speaker within the Indian market. During this time, he had the opportunity to work for most Indian blue chip companies.
When he started his UK postgraduate qualification in 2009, his main aim was to fully focus on completing his Masters to his best ability, but that he soon realised that he could achieve far more than that. So he also became a chartered member of the CIPD. Coupled with his MA in HRM, Mrinal feels that these qualifications provided him with the skills needed to succeed in today's competitive job market and that the Trimo Research Award will definitely help his CV to stand out to potential employers.
Mrinal Chakraborty
MA Human Resource Management | Graduate (2011)
I believe I can fly. Yes, anything is possible. Limitations live only in our minds, but if we use our imagination, our possibilities become limitless.
May 2011
Big wins for Big Pitch finalists
Left to right: Tom Barton, Mark Reyner, Kanayo Ogwu, Phill Richardson and Jackie Cooper.
Students toast success after their business ideas catch the eye of judges
Three teams from Anglia Ruskin University, two of them from the Lord Ashcroft International Business School, won £10,000 each after impressing the judges during the final of the Big Pitch competition.
LAIBS students and team leaders Tom Barton and Kanayo Ogwu each successfully pitched their business ideas to a panel after more than 40 initial entries were narrowed down to a shortlist of 7 for the grand final in Cambridge in May 2011.
In addition to their £10,000 start-up funding, they will also receive 12 months free office space at Anglia Ruskin's business incubator unit; 12 months free business banking with Barclays; legal advice and support from Eversheds; accountancy services and advice from Peters Elworthy & Morre (PEM); and creative and branding support from One.
The Big Pitch competition, which was open to all current undergraduate and postgraduate students at Anglia Ruskin University, was run by LAIBS Senior Lecturer Ben Mumby-Croft from the university's Centre for Enterprise Development and Research (CEDAR) in partnership with Anglia Ruskin's Research, Development and Commercial Services (RDCS).
Kanayo Ogwu
MA in International Business
This is so exciting because it has always been my dream to start my own business. I'll cherish this opportunity and I'll do my best to make sure that I don't let down the judges, organisers, and sponsors of this fantastic award.
Tom Barton
BA (Hons) in Enterprise and Entrepreneurial Management
The whole process during the final - especially making the presentation to the judges - was nerve wracking, but it was a great result for us. I think our product is quite bold and 'out there' and that probably appealed to the judges. We've been dreaming big, possibly too big at times, and we wanted to come up with an idea that can help a huge amount of people.
Ben Mumby-Croft
Senior Lecturer at LAIBS
Entrepreneurship is all about creating the right frame of mind; it's not a job title. The Big Pitch has been all about getting people to have a go, take ideas on board and not get downhearted if it doesn't immediately work out. It's very easy to knock ideas but we have to support young people and help them to take their ideas to the next stage, and those taking part in this year's competition have not only been trailblazers but also wonderful ambassadors for Anglia Ruskin.
Driving our success through our vision
Anglia Ruskin University team wins IBM University Business Challenge
At the Lord Ashcroft International Business School, our success stories align with our vision to build our reputation as "the UK's leading practice based, international business school." Core to our achieving our vision is building up our academic excellence in international management practice reflected in the research and scholarship activity and success of our faculty. This academic excellence helps drive our success in innovation in curriculum, designing and delivering leading edge courses for our students and corporate clients at both undergraduate and postgraduate level in the UK and overseas.
Robert Jones, Senior Lecturer at LAIBS, with the winning team
In leading innovations in practice based management education and research core to our success is strategic partnering. You will see that we are going beyond up an extensive network of contacts and relationships - to working at a strategic level with a small number of business and education organisations in the UK and overseas.
Of course the key measure of success in achieving our vision is down to the success of our students and our faculty. Our vision is being translated into courses that develop our students for careers in business and we have many great career success stories from our alumni. Our staff success in terms of research and consultancy also evidences the leading edge professional achievements of our practice based model.
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