About Royal Docks Business School
Royal Docks Business School exists to serve students, businesses and the community. This is a broad brief. For us, business embraces not only commercial organisations from the large multinationals at nearby Canary Wharf to start-up companies in East London, but also public sector and voluntary organisations which necessarily draw on business skills and knowledge if they are to succeed in their objectives. Our students are an extremely varied group; we are the Business School of choice for hundreds of students of all ages and backgrounds in the Thames corridor and across London and the Southeast, but every year we also welcome large numbers of students from across the world.
We operate from a purpose-built site in the historic Royal Docks – a dramatic building, close to London City airport, with excellent facilities and transport links. Around us in East London is a vibrant multi-cultural and entrepreneurial community with whom we have extensive links. Our partners and advisors include members of this community as well as senior executives of international businesses.
Our programmes are recognised by professional bodies including the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, (ACCA), the Chartered Management Institute (CMI), and the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, (CIPD). Our aim is to move towards external accreditation for all our programmes, thus giving students additional advantages in the job market. We place great emphasis on employability and offer many opportunities for students to develop skills and work experience outside the formal classroom environment. All our programmes involve frequent opportunities for students to meet and work with people from the business community and local and national government.
We have strong international links, hosting visiting students and academics from many countries. We offer our own students opportunities to study abroad with a range of European partner institutions. We also offer opportunities for students to undertake our programmes at partner institutions abroad, or by Distance Learning.
We have a strong faculty of around seventy highly qualified and experienced lecturers who are dedicated to teaching and supporting the student experience. They are also typically committed to high-quality research work which underpins our teaching, with groups focussing on entrepreneurship (the School hosts the Petchey Centre for Entrepreneurship), the management of human resources, finance, economics and banking. We are also actively engaged in consultancy and knowledge exchange projects with business, increasingly focusing on the regeneration of the Thames Gateway area. The School works closely with the University's Knowledge Dock, a successful award-winning business incubator and innovation centre.
