Anglia Ruskin University Faculty of Business and Law

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Faculty of Business and Law
Former name
Lord Ashcroft International Business School
Type business school; university faculty
Established1992
Dean Mohammad Ali
Students7200
Location
Cambridge Chelmsford London Peterborough
,
United Kingdom
Campus Urban
Affiliations CIMA, ACCA, CMI, ABS, PRME, AIESEC
Website https://aru.ac.uk/business-and-law
Lord Ashcroft Building in Chelmsford, Essex. The building was inaugurated by Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburgh in 2003. Lord Ashcroft Building at ARU Chelmsford.jpg
Lord Ashcroft Building in Chelmsford, Essex. The building was inaugurated by Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburgh in 2003.
Lord Ashcroft Building, seat of the business school, as seen from inside the campus in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire. Lord Ashcroft Building at ARU Cambridge.jpg
Lord Ashcroft Building, seat of the business school, as seen from inside the campus in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire.
The bust of Lord Michael Ashcroft at the Lord Ashcroft Building, Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge. Lord Ashcroft Bust, LAIBS, Anglia Ruskin, 10 Oct, 2012.jpg
The bust of Lord Michael Ashcroft at the Lord Ashcroft Building, Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge.

The Anglia Ruskin University Faculty of Business and Law (formerly Lord Ashcroft International Business School; LAIBS) is a faculty of Anglia Ruskin University (ARU). The faculty has two schools: the School of Economics, Finance and Law and the School of Management. [1] [2] Currently, ARU has business schools in Cambridge, Chelmsford, Peterborough, and London. [3] [4] [5] [6]

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The Lord Ashcroft Buildings are located at ARU Cambridge and ARU Chelmsford. [7] Lord Michael Ashcroft, then chancellor of the university, donated ten million pounds to construct both business school buildings. [8] [9] [10] Prince Edward inaugurated the Chelmsford building in 2003. [11] The Lord Ashcroft Building in Cambridge was opened in 2011. [12] The facade of the business school in Cambridge carries the former name of the business school.

Originally the Chelmsford building was called the Michael A. Ashcroft Building and the business school the Michael Ashcroft International Business School. [13] [14] After Ashcroft was created a life peer in 2000, [15] the business school was renamed to Lord Ashcroft International Business School.

The business schools is one of the largest in the east of England, with nearly 100 full-time teaching staff and approximately 7,200 students from over 100 countries. It also provides business programmes through partner institutions worldwide.

ARU is a member of the European Foundation for Management Development. Several of the faculty's programmes are accredited by the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and other professional bodies in the United Kingdom. All of the courses are accredited by the Chartered Management Institute. [16] In 2023, Anglia Ruskin entered into a partnership with the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment. [17]

Anglia Ruskin University Enterprise Academy supports entrepreneurship. [18] ARU is approved by the Institute of Enterprise and Entrepreneurs IOEE and National Centre for Entrepreneurship in Education (NCEE). [19] [18]

Professor Mohammad M. Ali is the Dean of the Faculty of Business and Law. [20]

Awards

In 2014, Anglia Ruskin University were announced as the winner of the Entrepreneurial University of the Year at the Times Higher Education Award. [21]

In 2016, the university won the Duke of York Award for University Entrepreneurship at Lloyds Bank National Business Awards. [22] [23]

In 2022, Anglia Ruskin’s Faculty of Business and Law received Small Business Charter Award. [24]

In 2023, Anglia Ruskin University won the University of the Year top prize at the Times Higher Education Awards. [25]

Controversies

In March 2018, Lord Ashcroft graduate, Hongkonger Pok Wong started a lawsuit against ARU for misrepresenting the career prospects of the degree she took. [26]

Alumni

Lord Ashcroft International Business School in Cambridge is the seat of the Faculty of Business and Law at ARU. Lord Ashcroft International Business School, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, England.jpg
Lord Ashcroft International Business School in Cambridge is the seat of the Faculty of Business and Law at ARU.

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