 Obviously the Corporate university phenomenon is in the sign of the time! Having been interviewed more and more often by journalists from the world over, I thought it would be useful for you to have a sample of the type of questions they pose. One such example is: Does the emergence of corporate universities signify that the conventional educational system has failed to meet the demands of the workplace? In other words, has the educational system failed to keep pace with technological advancement in the last two decades?
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Annick Renaud-Coulon
Chairman of GlobalCCU
Annick
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LAUNCH OF THE GlobalCCU AWARDS !
 Annick Renaud-Coulon is delighted to announce that the GlobalCCU Awards were officially launched from the Palais des Congrès in Paris on 15 March. The announcement has generated extremely positive and enthusiastic feedbacks! People have been particularly keen with the quality of the Advisory and Judging Committee she has constituted:
Christian Standaert, ArcelorMittal (Luxemburg), Filippo Romanini, Barilla (Italy), Thierry Bonetto, Danone (France), Annette Thompson, Farmers Insurance (USA), Josée Ouellet, Groupe Desjardins (Canada), José Ángel Fernández Izard, Gas Natural Fenosa (Spain), J.K. Suresh, Infosys (India), Sash Padayachee, Landmark Group (United Arab Emirates), Mark Allen, Pepperdine University (USA), Vikram Bector, Tata Motors (India), Jean Pfeifer, UBS (Switzerland), Chris Hardy, United States Department of Defense (USA) and Desiê M. Ribeiro, Vale (Brazil).
The opening of the applications is scheduled on 3 September 2012. All information about the GlobalCCU Awards will be available at the end of June on the GlobalCCU website.
GlobalCCU has organized a first CorpU workshop program in France which is a big success and may be proposed in other countries.
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GlobalCCU in major media coverage
CHILEAN PRESS
 Universidades Corporativas: la sala de clases al interior de la empresa
July 2011 More >
SPANISH PRESS
Cuando la empresa es la mejor universidad
May 2011 More >
ARGENTINA PRESS
Las Universidades Corporativas son la encargadas de acompañar los cambios
May 2011 More >
INDIAN PRESS
Learning on the job
24 october 2010 More >
US PRESS
Corporate Learning
20 september 2010 More >
ITALIAN PRESS
L'università in proprio conquista le imprese
15 september 2010 More >
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International Organisations
demand Economic World to face Corporate Responsibility
head on
 Georg Kell
Executive Director UN Global Compact New York Office
The United Nations Global Compact asks companies to embrace, support and enact, within their sphere of influence, a set of core values in the areas of human rights, labour standards, the environment, and anti-corruption.
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Corporate Learning
By Mac Margolis
 Annick Renaud-Coulon was interviewed by Newsweek on Corporate Universities.
Big companies are setting up university campuses all over the world to help produce the kinds of employees they most need. By some estimates the enrollment at corporate universities may soon surpass the number at traditional universities.
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University: a lever of Corporate Responsibility
By Annick Renaud-Coulon
Why do the social and environmental commitments established
by companies risk backfiring on their authors? Annual reports
that companies conscientiously produce year after year, with
the help of special agencies, don’t usually posit them
as responsible and respectable to their stakeholders.
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Learning on the Job
By Prasun Chaudhuri & Avijit Chatterjee
Annick Renaud-Coulon was interviewed by The Telegraph on the Corporate University phenomenon.
The Greek-style open air amphitheatre of the Global Education Centre built by information technology major Infosys at Mysore is perhaps symbolic of the company's global aspirations. The Rs2,055 crore mega campus, spread over 337 acres, is the largest corporate education centre in the world.
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This
global event brings together worldwide corporate university practitioners
and researchers face-to-face, to share experiences and projects
based around a main theme, to foster a corpus of knowledge, and
to enhance Member’s personal global network. 
Corporate university is
the generic name given to educational structures based in private
and public, commercial and non-commercial organisations, to help
implement—through education—the organisation's strategies
in human, economic, financial, technological, social and environmental
terms.
Comprehending Corporate Universities: 