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MARCH _ 2020

W

hen you think about
how you can grow or
develop your company,
is your first thought
to turn to recruitment? Or a training
course to develop and enhance the
skills of the staff you already have?
Whether there are people in your
business who could progress to their
first managerial job, managers who
could benefit from additional formal
training or you want to attract more
talent to help your business develop,
a degree apprenticeship from Anglia
Ruskin University could be the answer.
ARU's Chartered Manager Degree
Apprenticeship (CMDA) has been
designed to provide employees with core
management and professional skills and
knowledge, to enhance your business
and make an increased contribution at
work. It allows your employees to blend
their working life with their education,
allowing you to instil your business
culture and create an environment in
which your employees can use their
experiences and bring innovative ideas
and projects back to the workplace.

Degree apprenticeships

ARU's CMDA has three themes:
commercial and strategic awareness,
management practice-based
research and personal development
reflection, with a focus on both
management and leadership skills.
As apprentices, your employees work
towards the CDMA standard, and the BA

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(Hons) in Management & Leadership
will contribute significantly to the
demonstration of knowledge and skills
assessed by the end point assessment
at completion of the programme.

THE WORK-BASED
PROJECT FOCUSES
ON TOPICS
RELEVANT TO YOUR
ORGANISATION
On the CMDA programme, students
can also gain a dual-accredited degree
from either the Chartered Management
Institute or the ILM. Dual accreditation
gives a host of additional benefits and
resources from prestigious organisations,
as well as continuing access to resources
and networking after graduation .
A key part of the degree apprenticeship
programme is a work-based project that
provides your employees the opportunity
to focus on topics or issues relevant to
your organisation and sector, during
which they can find solutions and make
recommendations that could lead to
improved business performance.

Bespoke delivery

The ARU corporate programme team
have six years' experience delivering
the apprenticeship programme and
can work with your business to agree
a delivery pattern and location. They
work with businesses who have 15 or

more students to ensure flexibility in the
delivery pattern and choice of location.
There is also a robust personal tutoring
system in place to support apprentices
throughout their studies, providing
assistance around portfolio completion,
work-based projects, presentations
and interviews. This plays a significant,
contribution to the apprentice learning
and development experience.

Assessment

Our corporate programme team will
work with your business to agree the
assessment focus for the degree that
forms part of the overall assessment.
Completion of the programme is
achieved via an end point assessment,
which requires your employees to
have completed a portfolio of evidence
mapped to the standard, and present
their final work-based project.
In accordance with the Education
& Skills Funding Agency, the cost of
the apprenticeship will be covered
by the Apprenticeship Levy or via a
co-investment arrangement via the
Digital Apprenticeship Service.

For more information on how your
business could work with ARU's
corporate programme team to
deliver a degree apprenticeship
for your employees, email
Vanessa Knowles at vanessa.
knowles@anglia.ac.uk

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