Lord Ashcroft International Business School

Lord Ashcroft International Business School (LAIBS) was the business school of Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) in Cambridge and Chelmsford, England, United Kingdom. LAIBS was renamed to Faculty of Business and Law.[1]

Faculty of Business and Law
Former name
Lord Ashcroft International Business School
TypePublic
EstablishedARU: 1858, LAIBS: 1992
ChancellorBernard Ribeiro, Baron Ribeiro
DeanMohammad Ali
Students7200
Location
Cambridge Chelmsford London Peterborough
,
United Kingdom
CampusUrban
AffiliationsEUA, EFMD, BAC, SPACE, BUTEX, ECREA, HUMANE, SUPC, CIMA, ACCA, CMI, ABS, PRME, AIESEC
Websitehttps://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, 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.

The Faculty of Business and Law has two schools, which are School of Economics, Finance and Law, and School of Management.[2][3] Currently, ARU has business schools in Cambridge, Chelmsford, Peterborough, and London.[4][5][6][7]

The Lord Ashcroft Buildings are located at ARU Cambridge and ARU Chelmsford.[8] Lord Michael Ashcroft, then Chancellor (2001-2021) and alumni of Anglia Ruskin University, donated ten million pounds to construct both business school buildings.[9][10][11] HRH Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburgh inaugurated the Chelmsford building in 2003.[12] Lord Ashcroft Building in Cambridge was opened in 2011.[13] The facade of the business school in Cambridge carries the former name of the business school.

Originally the Chelmsford building was called Michael A. Ashcroft Building and the business school was Michael Ashcroft International Business School.[14][15] In 2000, Ashcroft was created a Baron, a life peer at the House of Lords.[16] Later, the business school was renamed to Lord Ashcroft International Business School.

Anglia Ruskin University has one of the largest business schools in the East of England, with nearly 100 full-time teaching staff and approximately 7,200 students from over 100 countries. Faculty of Business and Law of the Anglia Ruskin University is a global business school that provides business programmes through partner institutions worldwide as well.

ARU is a member of the EFMD and offers degrees. The Faculty of Business and Law has a strong global reputation and recognition. Several programmes are accredited by ACCA and CIMA, and many other professional bodies in the United Kingdom. All the department’s courses are accredited by the Chartered Management Institute.[17]

Pro-Vice Chancellor, Professor Mohammad M. Ali is the Dean of the Faculty of Business and Law.[18]

Awards

In 2014, Anglia Ruskin University were announced as the winner of the Entrepreneurial University of the Year at the Times Higher Education Award.[19]

In 2016, the university won the Duke of York Award for University Entrepreneurship at Lloyds Bank National Business Awards.[20][21]

In 2022, Anglia Ruskin’s Faculty of Business and Law received Small Business Charter Award.[22]

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.[23]

Alumni
Lord Ashcroft International Business School in Cambridge is the seat of the Faculty of Business and Law at ARU.

Honorary Doctors

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