Paul Hackwood is not your average graduate from an Executive MBA programme – an MBA degree for working managers. He is Archdeacon of Loughborough, in central England, with responsibility for 100 Anglican clergy in 180 churches. But Mr Hackwood has no doubt of the value of his Bradford EMBA.

“Quite a bit of the work I do is deciding strategy in the church,” he points out. Many of the human resource issues and even the finance issues he faces were dealt with on the programme, as was decision-making. But for this 47-year old man of the cloth there is one big difference between church and commerce. “Where business doesn’t fit in is in the values of the organisation.”