Oxford Business College
Oxford Business College is now actively involved in preparing bespoke, short training courses for
local and international businesses. The College is able to draw on a wide and varied range of
expertise, from a list of tutors who are accredited to teach at Masters level.

Corporate Training: Case Study - Ernst & Young (Japan)

Oxford Business College was approached by a Japanese agent who had already been working with the College, sending students for a number of the full-time Higher Education courses.  The brief given by this agent was to produce a two week Business Communication course for Ernst & Young (Japan), a blue chip company that operates in many different countries throughout the world.  The delegates would be high level executives who needed to improve their business communication skills in a relatively short period of time.

Staff at the College had a ‘needs analysis’ meeting with the client to assess precisely what was required. A programme was then developed which would:

• expand their knowledge of the contextual operation of the English language
• improve their ability to use grammatical structures and lexical items in business communication
• develop broad business communication strategies for use in the English-speaking world
• provide delegates with high quality family accommodation for the duration of their stay

The main focus of the course had to be on improving listening and speaking skills, though writing and reading would be briefly covered.

The College produced a course with the title: Certificate in Advanced Business Communication – a rigorous and stimulating programme with 8 distinct units and a total of 45 lesson hours per week; delegates would be taught in groups of less than 4 students.
 
Delegates are assessed throughout the course and receive a comprehensive report on their progress, which is passed to Ernst & Young, as well a Certificate confirming their achievement.

Ernst & Young has now been sending delegates to Oxford Business College for this specific course for the past 2 years and, to date, more than 40 executives have been trained by the College.