30-774: The International Capital Market Association Centre (or ICMA Centre ) is a department of the Henley Business School within the University of Reading , based in the English town of Reading , Berkshire . It offers undergraduate, postgraduate and executive education tailored to the capital markets industry. Established in 1991 with funding provided by the International Capital Market Association (ICMA) in Zurich through
60-572: A plasma screen displaying live market prices and news. The ICMA Centre is the largest non-investment bank Thomson Reuters populated facility in the world, having over 100 workstations, which is the size of a medium-sized investment bank's dealing floor. The rooms are training centres for traders of the future; and enable staff to combine theory and practice across activities including derivatives trading , portfolio management , risk management , financial engineering or corporate finance . The dealing rooms are also used for computing work throughout
90-655: A 20 terminal dealing room was opened and then on completion of the new building in 1998 a further two dealing rooms (Reuters I and II) opened with 62 workstations running Reuters products – 3000 Xtra and the Reuters Traders product. These are complemented by the Bloomberg terminal , which provides a tool for fixed income research. Research and project work are supported by economic and financial data from Datastream, ICMA and other sources and analytical, mathematical and statistical software. Reuters I also features
120-534: A cedar seat, wychelms and cedars, an ice house, several conservatories, greenhouses and heated basins. In the grounds, cast-iron or wooden baskets filled with scarlet sage or the then exotic begonias were scattered throughout the lawns. There were many, some garden-critics commented "too many" seats, covered seats, treillages and pavilions. Mary Soames , who wrote a book about the 5th Duke of Marlborough and his gardens in Whiteknights and Blenheim remarked that
150-485: A little visited corner of the campus, although demolition had been proposed in the 2007 campus development plan. However, in March 2009 the threatened building was given Grade II listed status, so demolition seems unlikely. The bunker is currently maintained and used by the campus library as a storage and cataloguing facility for books not present in the library itself. In the years after the second World War some traces of
180-555: A partnership with the University of Reading , the centre is housed in a purpose-built modernist building, and was formally opened in March 1998 by Sir Brian Unwin , then President of the European Investment Bank . The centre's facilities include three dealing rooms where students learn how markets function and apply theory through simulations. The centre also provides two lecture theatres, several seminar rooms, information seating area and café bar. The upper floor of
210-428: Is fitted with audio and visual technology allowing the podcasting and webstreaming of lecture content. The new building opened for students at the start of the 2009-2010 academic session. ICMA's investment in the centre now totals over £10 million, making it the largest single corporate investment in any European business school. The ICMA Centre provides three dealing rooms to complement theoretical learning. In 1994,
240-476: Is sometimes nicknamed 'The Maze' due to its significant size and complex layout of corridors. The RUSU building comprises the students' union itself, a small parade of shops including a bubble tea shop, cafe and an oriental mini supermarket as well as two of the university's bars and clubs. Next door to the RUSU building is a branch of Co-op Food . To the east of the lakes and surrounding conservation meadowland
270-713: Is the Earley Gate area of the campus. The second-world war era buildings here house the Fine Art Department, the Department of Typography and Graphic Communication, and various service functions. More recent buildings, dating from the 1990s and 2000s, house the Department of Applied Statistics; the Department of Meteorology; the School of Agriculture, Policy and Development; and the School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences. Also in this area can be found
300-504: The AACSB . The Administrative Staff College was set up in 1945 at Henley-on-Thames as the civilian equivalent of the military staff colleges . It offered short courses in problems of advanced management. The college was offered the use of Greenlands by the 3rd Viscount Hambledon in 1946, and was bought outright from the family in 1952. In its early years, the college was influenced by the management consultant and writer Lyndall Urwick ,
330-659: The Reading Enterprise Centre , the Science & Technology Centre , the University Atmospheric Observatory , and an NHS Speech and Language Therapy clinic, used by the students and staff of the Department of Clinical Language Sciences. Although the campus is much closer to the centre of Reading than it is to the town of Wokingham , the boundary between the unitary authorities of Reading and Wokingham meanders across
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#1732772453785360-583: The University of Reading to form the Henley Business School . It consists of the School of International Business and Strategy; the School of Leadership, Organisations and Behaviour; the School of Marketing and Reputation; the School of Business Informatics, Systems and Accounting (which includes the Informatics Research Centre); the School of Real Estate & Planning; the ICMA Centre ; and Executive Education Programmes. As of 2023
390-585: The 1950s to the 2000s. The Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology , University of Reading Herbarium and the Cole Museum of Zoology are both found in this area. The largest building on the campus, the Edith Morley Building, forms one end of the central courtyard. Previously known as the HumSS (Humanities and Social Sciences) building before being renamed in commemoration of Edith Morley in 2017, it
420-513: The 280 acres were "too small a canvas" for the marquesses' "broad brush". The estate was sold off and the house was demolished in 1840, supposedly by a mob of the Duke's angry creditors. The land was broken up into six leasehold units in 1867 and a number of the new houses were designed by Alfred Waterhouse , including his own residence at Foxhill House and the smaller Whiteknights House (now called Old Whiteknights House) for his father. During
450-654: The Marquis' expense. Splendid gardens were laid out, complete with the rarest of plants. In 1819, George Spencer, by now the Duke of Marlborough , became bankrupt and moved to his family home at Blenheim Palace at Woodstock in Oxfordshire. The gardens of the Whiteknights estate have been described in a book by Barbara Hofland with engraved pictures of the gardens and its multitude of bridges, fountains, seats and grottoes by her husband Thomas Christopher Hofland . The book
480-589: The Second World War, part of the park closest to the Earley Gate entrance was used for 'temporary' government offices, and several ranges of these single story, brick built, corridor and spur buildings still stand. After the war, this area became home to the Region 6 War Room responsible for civil defence in south-central England. The resulting nuclear bunker constructed in the 1950s still stands in
510-585: The Shinfield Road and the adjacent Elmhurst Road. The centre of the campus is bisected into two unequal halves by a chain of lakes which are crossed by several pedestrian bridges but with no vehicular link. To the west of the lakes can be found most of the academic departments, catering services, the university administration and the students union building. With the exception of a couple of surviving Victorian residences, including Foxhill House, all of these are housed in purpose built buildings dating from
540-535: The academic Hector Hetherington , the civil servant Sir Donald Banks and the businessman Sir Geoffrey Heyworth (later Lord Heyworth); its curriculum was designed by its first principal, Noel Hall . From the beginning, its intention was to bring together executives from Her Majesty's Civil Service , private business and nationalised industries to help develop their skills for promotion to senior management. Henley ran its first Masters in Business in 1974. This
570-509: The area of the manor of Earley Whiteknights , also known as Earley St Nicholas and Earley Regis . Whiteknights Park is some two miles south of the centre of the town of Reading in the English county of Berkshire . The campus is 1.3 square kilometres (321 acres) in size and includes lakes, conservation meadows and woodlands as well as being home to most of the university's academic departments and several halls of residence . The site
600-541: The campus, with their own vehicular access off those roads and with only pedestrian access to the core of the campus. Along the Wilderness Road and Pepper Lane sides of the campus, the campus is screened from the outside by undeveloped woodland and by the Harris Garden , the university's botanical garden . The campus core is therefore only easily visible from outside in the area around the main entrance on
630-457: The centre houses the administrative and academic staff and doctoral researchers. In 2008, ICMA invested a further £5 million, which funded an expansion to the building. The extension includes the flagship 40 seat dealing room - the largest in Europe – which is sponsored in part by Thomson Reuters , as well as a 170-seat lecture theatre, new seminar rooms and a dedicated research area. The building
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#1732772453785660-721: The college achieved triple accreditation status from the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), the Association of MBAs (AMBA) and the European Quality Improvement System (EQUIS). The Greenlands campus of the college is located on the banks of the river Thames near Henley-on-Thames, on a country estate and former home of the WH Smith family. In 2008, the Henley Management College merged with
690-489: The dean is Elena Beleska-Spasova. As of 2020 Henley Business School held triple-accredited status from AMBA , EQUIS and AACSB . 51°33′47″N 0°52′57″W / 51.56306°N 0.88250°W / 51.56306; -0.88250 Whiteknights Park Whiteknights Park , or the Whiteknights Campus of the University of Reading , is the principal campus of that university. The park covers
720-532: The gardens of the Marquess of Blandford have been discovered. There were a few old exotic trees and part of a fountain was found on a skip. The University of Reading purchased Whiteknights Park in 1947, and today it is the home of the university's administration, most of the academic departments and six halls of residence. The halls of residence (Bridges, Childs, MacKinder, Stenton, Windsor, and Wessex) are all along Whiteknights Road and Upper Redlands Road sides of
750-633: The previously independent Henley Management College (formerly the Administrative Staff College) with the existing business school of the University of Reading. As a result of the merger it now occupies two sites: Greenlands Campus , near the town of Henley-on-Thames , the original site of the Henley Management College, and Whiteknights Campus in Reading . As of 2020 the school had triple accreditation by EQUIS , AMBA and
780-415: The programmes, including Excel spreadsheet modelling, Monte Carlo simulation , financial econometrics and sessions on market microstructure . 51°26′33″N 0°56′48″W / 51.4424°N 0.9466°W / 51.4424; -0.9466 Henley Business School Henley Business School is a business school which is affiliated with the University of Reading . It was formed by merging
810-417: Was allowed to live there briefly during the 1270s. In 1606 the estate was purchased by the nephew of Sir Francis Englefield , following the confiscation of Englefield House and its estates in 1585. The Englefield family in turn sold the estate to George Spencer-Churchill , the Marquis of Blandford, in 1798. Between 1798 and 1819, the estate was the scene of vast extravagance and wild entertainments, all at
840-518: Was ordered by the then Marquess of Blandford, but like many other items that he ordered or purchased, it was never paid for. The gardens boasted a "chantilly garden" in the French style, a vineyard, a wilderness, a cottage, a gothic chapel, botanical gardens full of the rarest plants, many of them new from the Americas, an iron bridge, a stone bridge, an extensive sheep walk, an elm grove, an oak grove,
870-547: Was renamed MBA by the end of the 1970s. In 1981, the college changed its name from its original title to Henley - The Management College . This was changed again to the Henley Management College when it was awarded a royal charter in 1991. In the 1980s the college's full time and part time MBA education were based at Brunel University. In the beginning the MBAs were awarded by Brunel University. By 2002,
900-463: Was the home of John De Erleigh II , the famous foster-son of the Regent of England, William Marshal , but takes its name from the nickname of his great grandson, the 13th-century knight, John De Erleigh IV , the 'White Knight'. The De Erleigh (or D'Earley) family were owners of this manor for some two hundred years before 1365. St. Thomas Cantilupe , Bishop of Hereford and advisor to King Edward I ,
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