Barclays

The Lord Ashcroft Business School offers an innovative three year work-based BA (Hons) Management & Leadership, which it currently delivers in partnership with Barclays Retail Banking. Students are employed by Barclays Retail Banking and sponsored through all three years of the degree, which forms part of Barclays' innovative Retail Development Programme. Aligning the degree to the Retail Development Programme ensures that both individual and organisational needs are met.

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Basildon & Thurrock University Hospitals

The Lord Ashcroft International Business School is currently working on an MA Leadership, a highly innovative award which has been developed in close partnership with Basildon & Thurrock University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (the Trust). Whereas most university qualifications are academic and topic orientated, the MA Leadership is comprised entirely of practical projects, which are agreed with the organisation.

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Crawford & Co.

The Lord Ashcroft International Business School (LAIBS) was engaged by Crawford & Company in 2007 for leadership and management training to support the training needs of Crawford's middle/senior managers within the UK and throughout Europe. The programme is taught at LAIBS in Chelmsford, with cohorts of up to 50 students per year. LAIBS lecturers provide the majority of the taught input, although Crawford staff provide guest seminars to ensure the topics are clearly contextualised to the company.

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Cultural and Arts Industry

In combination with public agencies throughout the Eastern region - and beyond - the Lord Ashcroft International Business School runs a programme of knowledge transfer activities and specialised short courses, building on the back of the long-established Masters Degree course in Arts Management. These involve short courses and organisation-based training in:

• Strategic development
• Resource and market planning
• Evaluation and benchmarking
• Organisational development

Clients in this area include the Arts Council, Living East and the National Trust.

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Fire & Rescue Services

Our LAIBS Chelmsford Department hosts the Centre for Fire Service Research and Professional Development (CFRPD) which has developed a number of relationships with several brigades:

• Essex County Fire and Rescue Service (ECFRS)
• Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service (CFRS)
• Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service (MFRS)
• London Fire Brigade (LFB)
• Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service (GMFRS)
• Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service
• Cumbria Fire and Rescue Service

These relationships have led to a number of partnership opportunities, including the development and delivery of tailored programmes of management development.

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Harrods

Harrods is the capital's premier luxury retail outlet, world famous for its motto: omnia omnibus obique - 'All things for all people, everywhere' and for giving their customers exemplary service for over 155 years. With over 1 million square feet of retailing floor area across 330 departments, Harrods prides itself on providing a shopping experience unlike any other. With a worldwide reputation for quality and excellence - and some 3,500 staff - Harrods have developed an in-house training Academy for their top Sales Associates.

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Ridgeons

Ridgeons, the region's leading independent building and timber merchants which operates 21 branches across the East of England, has developed a work-based Foundation Degree in collaboration with LAIBS. This represents the latest in a number of Higher Skills@Work initiatives with LAIBS.

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UPS

The Lord Ashcroft International Business School has partnered with UPS, the world's largest package delivery company, to launch an undergraduate and postgraduate work-based leadership degree programme for approximately 150 of UPS's employees in the UK.

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Volvo CE

The Lord Ashcroft International Business School is working with Volvo Construction Equipment Division, Volvo Group UK Ltd, which is centred in Duxford, Cambridgeshire, to launch a work-based learning degree in line with a growing number of top named businesses in the UK.

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