About the School
Hastings Business School is a private, independent provider of courses and training leading to nationally accredited qualifications in management, law and marketing. We aim to serve the business community of the south east of England as well as those individuals who aspire to become the best in their chosen business or profession.
Promoting fresh thinking and best practice, we are committed to enhancing the continued professional development of our students. We believe that students and lecturers should inspire each other and that, in the appropriate learning environment, students learn from each other.
We recognise that the courses we provide can be challenging and intellectually rigorous and that our students will often be studying for their qualification at the same time as working in positions of responsibility either as an employee or as a proprietor of their own business. Many also need to combine their studies with family commitments. Others may have recently left school or college and will be looking for continuing learning support, albeit in the context of a more responsible and self-motivated adult learning environment. We also anticipate that some of our students will be in the process of changing their employment or pursuing new employment objectives or ambitions.
We acknowledge these challenges and pressures and aim to provide as flexible and personal approach as possible in our course provision. To this end, our courses will normally be delivered to small groups of between six to fifteen students, thus enabling each of our students to communicate effectively with their lecturer. This is in contrast to many education and training institutions which seek to maximise the number students attending a lecture regardless of the affect which this may have on a student’s performance, success and enjoyment of a course.
Hastings Business School is approved by The Chartered Management Institute (CMI) and by The Institute of Legal Executives (ILEX) to deliver their accredited courses leading to career qualifications in management and law. We also intend to offer courses accredited by The Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM). Our course provision extends from level 2 to post-graduate level 7.
We provide a range of Short Courses for Businesses. These courses aim to up-date business students and to introduce the staff and managers of business organisations to a variety of management, marketing and law topics.
Details of our Short Courses for Business and of our accredited courses, together with their professional and business credentials, may be found elsewhere on this website and on the respective websites of the CMI, ILEX and the CIM.
Hastings Business School is located in the beautiful setting of the Pestalozzi Country Park. We can provide residential and non-residential course programmes. Recently refurbished residential facilities adjoin the Business School lecture rooms. The accommodation is owned and managed by the world-renowned Pestalozzi International Village Trust. Additional facilities are accessible in the nearby historic village of Sedlescombe.
Members of our team of lecturers at Hastings Business School have more than 75 years of teaching experience between them. They include business and professional specialists with years of experience in senior roles. All of our team members hold qualifications in their subject specialism.

Our Subjects
Hastings Business School provides professionally accredited course programmes and short courses for business in Management, Marketing and Law. Please refer to the ‘Accredited Programmes’ and ‘For Business’ pages of this website for details.’
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Our Staff
Members of our team of lecturers at Hastings Business School have more than 75 years of teaching experience between them. They include business and professional specialists with years of experience in senior roles. All of our team members hold qualifications in their subject specialism and most have a membership of the government-approved Institute for Learning.
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Our Publications
Please contact us if you would like to receive the Hastings Business School Brochure, of which print and large-print versions are available, or if you would like to receive Qualifications Brochures respectively published by The Chartered Management Institute, The Chartered Institute of Marketing and The Institute of Legal Executives..
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