Executive Education Symposium:
Degree Apprenticeships and their Impact on Executive Education

As a major area of recent growth, degree apprenticeships are having a considerable impact upon executive education and its future delivery.

This symposium will examine the array of organisational structures business schools are adopting to provide both degree apprenticeships and executive education, and how this is supported by the wider institution. Case studies will explore:

  • Restructuring departments and professional services to streamline executive education and degree apprenticeship operations and delivery
  • Dealing with rapid growth in degree apprenticeships provision, and managing the opportunities and challenges on other executive education provision
  • Delivering the MBA, MA, degree apprenticeships and executive education through one department
  • The pros and cons of segregating or integrating degree apprenticeships and executive education.

Participants will enhance their understanding of the range of opportunities and challenges of degree apprenticeships for executive education, both currently and in the longer term. This will include analysis of the implications for the skills, competencies and resources needed in teams for the successful delivery of both executive education and degree apprenticeships.

Speakers include:

  • Corey Dixon, Director, Parthenon-EY
  • Louise Donaghy, Head of Business Development and Executive Education, Leicester Castle Business School
  • Jaqueline Bagnall, Director Degree Apprenticeships, The Business School, University of Exeter
  • Dr Yvonne Moogan, Director of Apprenticeships, Leeds University Business School
  • Dr Mel Bull, MBA Director, Sheffield Business School, Sheffield Hallam University
  • Dr Jonathan Gorst, Principal Lecturer, Sheffield Business School, Sheffield Hallam University

09:30     Registration

10:00     Welcome and Introduction

Dr Andrew White, Associate Dean, Executive Education and Corporate Relations, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford and Chair, Chartered ABS Executive Education Committee

Steve Ludlow, Head of Executive Education, Henley Business School – symposium chair and facilitator

10:10    An Employer Perspective on the Future of Degree Apprenticeships from one of the ‘Big Four’ Accounting Firms

Corey Dixon, Director, Parthenon-EY

10:40    Case study 1.1 – Sheffield Business School

             Executive education, MBAs, the growth in higher degree apprenticeships - tackling the challenges

Dr Mel Bull, MBA Director, Sheffield Business School, Sheffield Hallam University

Dr Jonathan Gorst, Principal Lecturer, Sheffield Business School, Sheffield Hallam University

11:05     Coffee

11:35     Case study 1.2 – An Employer’s Perspective from a Client of Sheffield Business School

Richard Cowlishaw, Group Human Resources Director, Clipper Logistics plc

Jennifer Guy, Head of Learning and Development, Clipper Logistics plc

12:00     Case study 2 – Leeds University Business School and an Apprentice’s Perspective

              Providing all elements of degree apprenticeships within executive education and practical issues from design to delivery

Dr Yvonne Moogan, Director of Apprenticeships, Leeds University Business School

Conor Smyth, Degree Apprenticeship Student

12:45     Lunch

13:45     Case study 3 – The Business School, University of Exeter

              Delivering degree apprenticeships separately from executive education as a new provider

Jacqueline Bagnall, Director Degree Apprenticeships, The Business School, University of Exeter

14:15     Case study 4 – Leicester Castle Business School

              Making the most of the opportunities offered by degree apprenticeships within the context of an executive education team

Louise Donaghy, Head of Business Development and Executive Education, Leicester Castle Business School, De Montfort University

14:45     Facilitated group discussions in which participants will draw on their business schools’ experience, sharing examples to explore:

  • the opportunities and threats presented by degree apprenticeships for executive education;
  • the customers’ perspective; and
  • different institutions’ structures for degree apprenticeship provision, including the centralisation of services.

15:45     Summary and closing remarks

16:00     Close

  • Directors of Executive Education
  • Senior executive education staff
  • While this symposium will have an executive education focus, it will also be of interest to all business school staff with responsibility for degree apprenticeships

Places at this workshop are £180 per attendee.

Group booking discounts apply whenever you make a booking for more than one colleague from the same organisation. Places for additional colleagues in a group booking are £135.

Booking options for groups of up to four can be found by clicking the Register Now button above.

To book for a group of five or more colleagues, please email Gail Norcliffe at gail.norcliffe@charteredabs.org to be provided with a special booking code.

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If you would like more information about the event, are interested in our programme of executive education symposia, or have any recommendations for how Chartered ABS can support its membership with regards to executive education and degree apprenticeships, please get in touch with Gail Norcliffe at gail.norcliffe@charteredabs.org

Information on the Chartered ABS Executive Education Committee can be found here.