Partnerships and Collaborations
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Our partnerships and collaborations with some of the best business brains and academic institutions are a fundamental part of the way we conduct our business. Collaborations are sought out for many different reasons, such as offering the most rigorous academic standards and prestigious qualifications or benchmarking best practice. We seek out organisations engaged in exemplary work, approach our partnership with them with creativity and flexibility and engage in an active alliance. We have a history of successful partnerships. Working with academic and business institutions, we achieve our mission of striving for the highest professional and academic standards in public service and organisational and people development in order to advance effective government.
The National School works with other UK public sector academies. For example, it leads the work of the Public Sector Leadership Consortium in conjunction with the Defence Academy.
We also have relationships with most of the European Civil Service and the Canadian School of Public Service. Through active participation with the Commonwealth Association for Public Administration and Management, the National School of Government is helping to spread good governance and build public sector capacity globally.
Our working relationships include the following universities,
business schools and professional organisations:
- Ashridge Business School
- Birmingham University
- Henley Management College
- IMD International, Switzerland
- Kingston Business School
- Nottingham Trent University Business School
- Oxford University
- The Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy
- Warwick Business School
Kingston University Business School
The National School is collaborating with Kingston University Business School to increase professionalism within the public sector by delivering an MA in Human Resource Strategy and Change.
Kingston Business School has an excellent track record of working with senior executives and is a centre of excellence for human resources recognised by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. From the partnership, we hope to gain from each organisation's expertise to provide a qualification that is both practical and rigorously academic.
In recognition of student's prior knowledge and skills the programme only takes 12 months to complete on a part time basis and is open to public sector managers and professionals seeking a better understanding of the strategic role of Human Resource Management in the modern business environment.
Contact Sue Treharne for more information about our collaboration with Kingston Business School. Email: sue.treharne@nationalschool.gsi.gov.uk
The Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy
The Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA) is one of the leading accountancy bodies in the UK and the only one to specialise in the public sector.
Together with CIPFA we are aiming to improve the quality of public finance and management; this will be achieved by providing tailored solutions and consultancy services.
By educating and training professional accountants and developing a range of finance and related course, seminars and conferences we seek to enhance the financial competency of managers in the public services.
This partnership with CIPFA will enable us to respond to the changing needs of the Civil Service within the finance area.
CIPFA and National School announce strategic partnership
IMD International, Switzerland
IMD is the world's leading business school with over 50 years of experience in educating and nurturing business executives from all over the world. Their focus is global business best practice and general management.
By joining in partnership with IMD the National School has access to the comprehensive online learning resources they offer, such as their webcasts given by IMD professors, guest CEOs and other top executives.
IMD hosts ten Discovery Learning events at their Lausanne campus each year which are a showcase for their latest research.
Through our partnership we are able to tap into IMD's wide-ranging knowledge and enable our clients to engage in interactive learning.
For more information about our collaboration with IMD contact Chris Cooper at chris.cooper@nationalschool.gsi.gov.uk
Warwick Business School
Our partnership has manifested in a number of productive ways.
Four professors have become fellows of the Sunningdale Institute, with one of them, John Benington, editing our book of the June reform conference.
We have also collaborated to tailor Warwick's masters programme in public administration (MPA) for civil servants.
Oxford University
The National School of Government is collaborating with Oxford University's Department for Continuing Education to offer a series of seminars in policy making and delivery, using cross cutting issues as themes.
By collaborating with Oxford University we have enabled policy makers to come into direct contact with academics in the field, giving them the opportunity to discuss how they can best combine their strengths to tackle complex areas of policy delivery.
Two successful seminars have taken place on the themes of migration and ageing. The seminars offer senior officials the opportunity to take a step back from day-to-day pressures and allow them to consider ways to improve policy making using a live and relevant issue that has an impact across all of government. Participants come away with a number of ideas about how they might apply lessons learnt to their own responsibilities. For information on future seminars: http://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/cpd/events.asp.
For further information please contact Graham Davies at graham.davies@nationalschool.gsi.gov.uk.