The 1st school in England to offer the Oxford Advanced Learners' Programme (ALP) is University of London International Programmes with its School of Advanced Study. The purpose and focus are that students will have an understanding about how their research could be used to make a difference globally, but at heart it has been founded on academic principles from one of England’s oldest university’s programmes- as well as being internationally recognised for academics like Jeremy Bentham who invented his famous Prison Reform Essay whilst here. ALP started out back in 2006 when ULIP launched what was then called ‘The Global Leadership Development programme’ – this is where we see the international aspect come into play…
I am now studying my PHD with them so I can use my degree to work towards developing new approaches to education, business leadership & management development which also include looking at different models such as blended learning systems too (i.e. mix face to face/online teaching modules alongside each other, etc)……