Hult Ashridge

Hult Ashridge Executive Education

Former name	Ashridge Business School Ashridge Management College Ashridge Executive Education
Type	Business school for executive education
Established	1959
Parent institution	Hult International Business School
President	Stephen Hodges
Administrative staff	400 +
Location	Hertfordshire , United Kingdom
Campus	Ashridge Estate
Affiliations	EQUIS AMBA AACSB
Website	hultashridge.com

Hult Ashridge Executive Education, housed in Ashridge House, is ranked one of the UK's top 10 business schools.^[1]

Hult Ashridge Executive Education (also known as the Hult Ashridge) is the executive education arm of Hult International Business School, based in London, Dubai, and Hult's flagship executive education campus on the Ashridge Estate.

Formerly an independent business school, known as Ashridge Business School, Ashridge completed an operational merger with Hult in 2015.^[2][3] It offers teaching leadership and organisational development.

History

The college was conceived at Ashridge House in 1921, when the house was acquired by a trust established by Bonar Law, a future UK Prime Minister; in 1929 it became a "College of Citizenship", established to help the Conservative Party develop its intellectual forces in struggles with left-wing organisations such as the Fabian Society.^[4] It became a cross between a think-tank and a training centre and had Arthur Bryant as its educational adviser.^[5]

After the Second World War, the "College of Citizenship" was briefly re-established but in 1959 it was re-launched with a new focus on management training, taking the name Ashridge Management College.^[6]

In 2015 the then Ashridge Business School operationally merged with Hult International Business School, an international business school with campuses in seven cities around the world. As part of the merger, Ashridge Business School changed its name to Ashridge Executive Education.^[3][7]

Organization and administration

Constitution

Ashridge Business School is constituted as a registered charity, formally named the Ashridge (Bonar Law Memorial) Trust, and is one of the 150 largest UK charitable organisations ranked by annual expenditure.^[8] The trust has the following goals: (a) honouring the memory of a great statesman, (b) the preservation of the house and grounds as an historic building, (c) to create an educational centre (d) to train lecturers, speakers and writers to further the study of the subjects outlined above (e) provide lectures and/or discussions on these subjects open to the public or for those who had paid fees to attend, (f) provide a supporting staff, (g) to allow boarding by those attending the lectures and discussions.^[9]

Faculty

Ashridge employs approximately 95 full-time academic staff and has a further 100 associate faculty members. Faculty members are not traditional academics – the majority combine significant academic qualifications with extensive international business experience, enabling them to become fully involved with the issues and challenges faced by clients and individual participants. Academic staff regularly serve on the councils of international educational and advisory bodies, including the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC), European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) and Association of MBAs (AMBA). They also share their expertise as visiting professors at many international business schools and universities.^[10]

See also

• Ashridge
• Ashridge Priory

References

1. "Student life: top ten UK business schools". The Daily Telegraph. 9 May 2014. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 27 July 2019.
2. Bradshaw, Della (4 July 2014). "Ashridge and Hult International announce plans to merge". Financial Times. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
3. Gordon, Adam. "Ashridge Hult Offers Mindset Shift For Those 'Fed Up With Business School'". Forbes. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
4. Berthezène, Clarisse (2005). "A glimpse at the archives of a Conservative intellectual project". Contemporary British History. 19: 79–93. doi:10.1080/1361946042000303873. S2CID 144485487.
5. "Correspondence of (Sir) Arthur Bryant, and related papers, 1919-84". King's College, London. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
6. "Ashridge College". Rural Heritage Trust. Archived from the original on 5 March 2012. Retrieved 11 April 2014.
7. "Governance". Ashridge.org.uk. Archived from the original on 2 April 2016. Retrieved 5 June 2016.
8. "Top 500 Charities – Expenditure". Charities Direct. Archived from the original on 2 December 2008. Retrieved 11 April 2014.
9. Berthezène, Clarisse (Spring 2005). "Ashridge College, 1929–54: a glimpse at the archive of a Conservative intellectual project". Contemporary British History. 19: 80–95. doi:10.1080/1361946042000303873. S2CID 144485487.
10. "Business Research and Faculty". Ashridge. Archived from the original on 2 August 2014. Retrieved 25 July 2014.

Further reading

• Sanecki, K.A., Ashridge – A Living History, Phillimore & Co, 1996, ISBN 1-86077-020-7

External links

• Ashridge Business School Archived 28 November 2004 at the Wayback Machine
• "The Ashridge (Bonar Law Memorial) Trust, registered charity no. 311096". Charity Commission for England and Wales.

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