October 2006
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The Oxford Executive Education Centre will provide the additional
facilities the School requires for a significant expansion
of its executive education activities.
Oxford has long provided world class executive education programmes
for business people. "There is now a unique opportunity
to create executive education programmes of exceptional quality"
commented the Dean of the School, Professor Colin Mayer. "The
new Oxford Executive Education Centre is a key component of
our plans. This will make a major contribution to the School
in terms of its educational mission, its relations with the
corporate world, its research and its financial position. There
is an increasing emphasis on the role of lifetime education
of executives within companies. Equally, there is increasing
recognition that business has a significant part to play in
solving the social and environmental problems of the 21st Century.
We must develop business leaders with effective and visionary
skills to meet those challenges. At Saïd Business School,
we want to inspire and educate the leaders of tomorrow’s
businesses and contribute to transforming the performance standards
of management internationally."
The new building will provide high quality facilities for
executive education comparable with the top business schools
internationally. Facilities will include three horseshoe shaped
lecture theatres, large seminar rooms and smaller break-out
rooms, with additional dining and social spaces.
The Oxford Executive Education Centre will be located on land
immediately adjacent to the original School building, which
is now used as a car park and for some of the gardens. It will
be designed by the leading architectural practice Dixon Jones,
which created the School’s critically acclaimed building.
The facilities will complement the existing executive education
resources at Egrove Park (formerly belonging to Templeton College)
on the outskirts of Oxford, where much of the School's
executive education is currently delivered.
The Vice-Chancellor of the University, Dr John Hood, commented
"The University is delighted that the Saïd Business
School is seeking to build upon its considerable achievements
in this way, and to contribute to the development of executive
education internationally. With an increasing emphasis upon
lifelong learning in business and upon personal development,
it is important that we are prepared to meet the educational
needs of our clients – both
individuals and companies. The School is uniquely placed, at
the heart of the University, to respond to developments in
executive education, and indeed fundamentally to shape them.
The School will be able to draw upon its clear strengths in
research and teaching, linking leading-edge thinking with practice,
to create new executive education programmes for the business
leaders of the future. We intend to build facilities to match
that ambition."
Professor Colin Mayer, Dean of the Said Business School, commented:
"Our intention is to bring together academic, business and
political leaders from around the world and to help them identify
how, what and who they should manage to provide effective,
visionary leadership. At Saïd Business School, we want
to inspire and educate the leaders of tomorrow's businesses.
We are extremely grateful to Mr Saïd for his ongoing and
generous financial support of business education at Oxford
and for this gift for the Oxford Centre for Executive Education.
The gift will help us realise our vision for executive education
at Oxford and is a very significant step towards our fundraising
goals."
Mr Saïd has very generously suggested that naming rights
of the Centre should be made available if his £15 million
gift were to be matched.
A display of initial plans for the new building will be on
show at the School shortly and will be open to the public.
Building work is scheduled to begin in 2008, with the building
due for completion in 2010.
The new Executive Education Centre will be built by Oxford
Saïd Business School Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of
the University of Oxford, which has been established exclusively
to deliver executive and post-experience courses at the Saïd
Business School.
For further details of Oxford Said's Executive Education
programmes see
their profile.
Also see www.waficsaid.com
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