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them craft admission essays. More- increasing globalisation, where
over, through our Knowledge Center corporate education profes-
helmed by professionals from diverse sionals were redesigning their
industries, students can sign up for learning organisations to develop
certified courses and immersive multicultural skills to operate in
learning to add depth and value to new countries in which their par-
their admission applications,” says ent organisation were investing.
Agarwal, who adds that recently a That’s how GlobalCCU was born
member of the Harvard Admissions in 2005,” recalls Renaud-Coulon.
Committee came aboard the com- In 2008, she succeeded in
pany as advisor. Tuition fees range organising the first GlobalCCU
between Rs.5-6 lakh per year. Forum in France at the Veolia
Future plans. Thus far, AJP/Athena Campus and at Sorbonne
Education has adopted a B2C model University on the subject: Make
by providing customised services your Corporate University
to students. Now with the company a lever of your Corporate
having established itself as one of the Responsibility, an initiative that
country’s leading education abroad Renaud-Coulon: global network attracted delegates from five
consultancies, several schools have continents.
contacted it for institutional services. rum was convened for the first time Since then, GlobalCCU has de-
“This is something we are keen to in Asia, in Bengaluru on May 17-19. veloped a range of services. Among
explore. Whether it’s B2C or B2B, we The international event celebrated them: the GlobalCCU Awards, Glo-
are committed to qualifying students the 2023 GlobalCCU Award win- balCCU CU Certification; GlobalCCU
for securing admissions into univer- ners and ten-year anniversary of the Brand Certification; GlobalCCU
sities of their choice worldwide,” says global contest. Masterclasses and the GlobalCCU
Subramaniam. History. An alumna of the faculty of Membership Community.
Autar Nehru (Delhi) law in Reims University, Renaud- Direct talk. “Like traditional uni-
Coulon began her career in an versities, corporate universities are
Corporate industrial company, as director of important spaces for enlightened
education for judgement and think-
its training department. She then set
universities out on her own as an independent ing that can help people understand
consultant. As part of her research
our human and environmental
innovator on ‘Best Practices of Decentralisa- interdependence around the world.
Both are complementary. While
tion,’ she studied and visited several
companies in Japan, South Korea, education systems devote all their ef-
NNICK RENAUD-COULON Switzerland, and the US. In the mil- forts on the essential development of
is a transnational expert lennium year, she suo motu conduct- people from a long-term perspective,
Aon corporate universities ed the first extensive survey/study corporate universities have to deliver
and the Paris-based Founder and on the corporate university phenom- impactful learning and development
Chairwoman of the Global Council of enon titled ‘Corporate Universities, solutions for people, business, soci-
Corporate Universities (GlobalCCU). Corporate Institutes, International ety and the planet in a shorter time.”
She defines corporate universities Comparison and Evaluation’. says Renaud-Coulon.
as “educational structures based in Her 18-month research culmi- Future plans. Next on the cards is the
private and public, commercial and nated in an 800-page three volume launch of the GlobalCCU Member-
non-commercial organisations, to book, featuring 70 monographs from ship community’s second programme
implement the business strategies of Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, in September/October with the active
the organisation and to embody the Denmark, France, India, Italy, support of corporate universities,
corporate culture in its stakehold- Germany, Netherlands, Russia, USA, particularly in India, Indonesia, and
ers”. Promoted in 2005 in France, Spain, South Korea, Switzerland Brazil. “After our very successful
GlobalCCU operates in five conti- and the UK. Subsequently in 2002, GlobalCCU Forums in Bengaluru and
nents. In India, Aditya Birla, Anand she launched the European Club of previously in Sao Paulo, I am very
Automotive, Essar, Infosys, TMTC Corporate Universities, a community pleased to see our corporate univer-
and TVS Motor have been conferred of practice designed for learning and sity community growing in the Global
awards by GlobalCCU. development corporate university South.” she says.
Newspeg. The 2023 GlobalCCU Fo- professionals. “It was the time of Reshma Ravishanker (Bengaluru)

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