Ashridge Education and Skills

Ashridge Education and Skills (AES)

The education, learning and skills sector is vital to the UK economy. Ashridge Education and Skills is making a major contribution to support leaders and managers across different parts of this sector, enabling them to meet the challenge of delivering change, customer value and quality.

As Government and employers spend over £30billion a year on vocational training, AES is supporting further and higher education, training providers, the Learning and Skills Council, Sector Skills Councils and other stakeholders to develop their contribution to a high skills economy. As the school sector undergoes continuing change, AES is working with its partners to support the school Academies in their new challenges.

Gateshead College and Ashridge announce strategic partnership

Gateshead and Ashridge colleagues

Gateshead College will work with Ashridge on a two year programme of support, focusing on long term business sustainability.

Working with the Executive Teams and Boards of Governors, Ashridge will support the strategic direction of the college. In parallel, college functions such as business development, human resources, marketing and communications will have access to specialist expertise.

Find out more about Strategic Partnerships and our work with Gateshead College

Exeter College: Making strategy happen is making leadership happen

Exeter College is a large tertiary college based in the South West. Ashridge has worked with Exeter College for the past year focusing on strategy execution as an approach to support the college and enable joined-up leadership and management at all levels.

We presented our case study wih Exeter College at the AoC annual conference on 17 November. Read the break-out session report and case study

Harrow College: Surfing the tides of change

This case study tells how Harrow College worked with us to transform the way it does business, using the strategy canvas framework to help it balance its needs for long term sustainable growth and 'here and now' operational progress.

Read our newly published case study

The Strategy Execution Challenge

AES would like to introduce their new consultancy programme for the FE sector. To find out more about Strategy Execution please go to our dedicated webpages and download our brochure, watch our short video, read case studies and take the execution challenge.

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Employer responsiveness

Living partnerships

Please follow the links to find out how AES can tailor support to your needs.

Research Projects

Following our work with colleges and training providers around employer responsiveness issues, Ashridge has established an action research project looking at partnership working in the education sector. In June 2008 AES held a workshop in which providers from public, private and voluntary organisations came to Ashridge to share their experiences and help shape our future work in this area. We published a research report outlining the learning from this event and in September 2008 held a second action research workshop on the same theme.

In the September workshop a group of clients and consultants with extensive experience of partnership working across all sectors discussed key issues around strategic partnership development. What are the key drivers? What dynamics are at play in partnerships? What are the criteria for success? AES has now published a second report: Are partnerships really worth it?in which some of these questions are explored. Read the full research report here.

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Events coming up

Please keep checking this page for new events for 2010.

For other events being run by Ashridge please take a look at the homepage.

A look back at our previous events