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Ashridge Masters in Sustainability and Responsibility – (M.Sc.)
| Annual Tuition Fee: | ≈ € 9,570 - | ||
| Location: | Berkhamsted / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 24 months | Start Date: | November |
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| Languages: | English | ||
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The programme is studied part time over two years and is based around a series of eight intensive workshops, each of five days' duration.
The programme requires you to engage in practical and experimental actions between workshops, using action research processes. You will be fully supported by tutors and peer learning groups to apply your learning from workshops to your daily professional settings.
Through the programme you will :
- explore sustainability and corporate responsibility from multiple perspectives
- engage with leading-edge practitioners and organisations featuring values-based business and organisational practices
- develop skills and apply disciplined action research and action learning
- develop and apply your capacities as an informed and self-aware individual contributing to organisational and social change
- inform the growing world-wide debate on the purposes and responsibilities of business
- benefit from strong peer support, shared learning and a conducive learning environment
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Course Aims
The programme provides a range of perspectives on business, all of which challenge traditional ideas about where ‘responsibility’ begins and ends. You will understand the realities of the challenges facing us in the coming decades and learn about the management techniques and approaches being developed in leading-edge organisations to address these sustainability and corporate responsibility issues.
More importantly, since this programme is based in practice, it will help you to address these challenges and will encourage you to play an active part in helping organisations and communities understand more about the issues concerned.
Benefits
By studying the MSc you will:
- explore sustainability and corporate responsibility from multiple perspectives
- engage with leading-edge practitioners and organisations featuring values-based business and organisational practices
- develop skills and apply disciplined action-research and action-learning
- develop and apply your capacities as an informed and self-aware individual contributing to organisational and social change
- inform the growing world-wide debate on the purposes and responsibilities of business
- benefit from strong peer support, shared learning and a conducive learning environment
Why Action Research?
Action Research incorporates a wide range of practices and ideas with a strong pedigree in the fields of organisational change and community development. Action Research invites you to develop a discipline of thinking, personal reflection and testing ideas through action experiments. This course draws on this highly participative approach to learning and requires systematic engagement and collaboration at personal and professional levels.
Workshop Dates 2011 Intake
- Workshop 1: 14-18 November 2011
- Workshop 2: 23-27 January 2012
- Workshop 3: 23-27 April 2012 (Schumacher College, Devon)
- Workshop 4: 25-29 June 2012
- Workshop 5: 22-26 October 2012
- Workshop 6: 28 January - 01 February 2013
- Workshop 7: 13-17 May 2013
- Workshop 8: 23-27 September 2013 (offsite)
Workshop Dates 2012 Intake
- Workshop 1: 12 - 16 November 2012
- Workshop 2: 21 - 25 January 2013
- Workshop 3: 22 - 26 April 2013 (Schumacher College, Devon)
- Workshop 4: 01 - 05 July 2013
- Workshop 5: 14 - 18 October 2013
- Workshop 6: 03 - 07 February 2014
- Workshop 7: 12 - 16 May 2014
- Workshop 8: 22 - 26 September 2014 (offsite)
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Register Now!Requirements
This Ashridge MSc programme is designed for:
- business people
- consultants
- activists
- public sector managers
- NGO professionals and
- anyone concerned with ensuring that organisations are both profitable and responsible.
The application process is intended to enable both applicants and programme staff to explore and assure a fit between the expectations and demands of the programme and the needs and capabilities of the participants. It will include:
- Submission of a completed application form
- References: Submission of two referees
- Interview: We invite applicants to come to Ashridge and meet the Programme Directors.
Appropriate TOEFL/IELTS scores may be required for those whose first language is not English.
Additional Requirements
| Minimal degree required: | Bachelor's degree |
| Minimal amount of work experience | Not specified |
Language Proficiency
| Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE): | Grade A (Score: 80) |
Accreditation
Ashridge is fewer than 30 schools worldwide to achieve triple accreditation from AMBA, EQUIS and AACSB - the UK, European and American accreditation bodies.
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