Lord Ashcroft International Business School

Lord Ashcroft International Business School
Type	Public
Established	ARU: 1858, LAIBS: 1992
Dean	Gary Packham
Students	7200
Location	Cambridge
Campus	Urban
Affiliations	EUA, EFMD, BAC, SPACE, BUTEX, ECREA, HUMANE, SUPC, CIMA, ACCA, CMI, ABS, PRME, AIESEC
Website	http://www.anglia.ac.uk/ruskin/en/home/faculties/aibs.html

Lord Ashcroft International Business School (LAIBS) is the business school of Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) in Cambridge and Chelmsford, England, United Kingdom. The Lord Ashcroft building is located on ARU's Cambridge campus.[1] It is 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. The Lord Ashcroft International Business School of the Anglia Ruskin University is a global business school that provides business programmes through partner institutions worldwide as well.

Front view of the business school.

Ashcroft Building, seat of the business school, as seen from inside the campus.

LAIBS is a member of the EFMD and offers degrees. The business school has a strong global reputation and recognition. Several programmes of the LAIBS are accredited by ACCA and CIMA, and many other professional bodies in the United Kingdom.

Lawsuit

In March 2018, Lord Ashcroft graduate Pok Wong started a lawsuit against ARU for misrepresenting the career prospects of the degree she took.[2]

Alumni

Michael Ashcroft, Baron Ashcroft, English investor, billionaire and former Conservative vice chairman
Patricia Scotland, Baroness Scotland of Asthal, Labour politician, government policy-maker, former minister, attorney general and president of Chatham House
Kim Howells, Labour politician and former Chair of the Intelligence and Security Committee
Nicky Richards, CEO and Chief Investment Officer MLC Asset Management
Andrew Sayer, English economist, professor of Social Theory and Political Economy at Lancaster University
Ronald Searle, creator of St Trinian’s
Mark Wood, businessman, accountant and chairman of NSPCC
Chris Beckett, academic, author and science-fiction novelist
John Burnside, academic and T.S. Elliot winner author
Geraldine Finlayson, researcher and director of John Mackintosh Hall
Angela Hartnett, entrepreneur and chef

External links

References

https://map.cam.ac.uk/Lord+Ashcroft+Building#52.203487,0.133934,17
Bird, Steve (10 March 2018). "Graduate sues Anglia Ruskin University claiming she ended up with a 'Mickey Mouse' degree". The Telegraph. London. Retrieved 12 March 2018.

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[1] ttps://map.cam.ac.uk/Lord+Ashcroft+Building#52.203487,0.133934,17

[2] Bird, Steve (10 March 2018). "Graduate sues Anglia Ruskin University claiming she ended up with a 'Mickey Mouse' degree". The Telegraph. London. Retrieved 12 March 2018.