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Corporate Universities: A New Structure for Educational Development Within The UK Health Service

The NHS spends a massive £3-4 billion on training each year - roughly 5% of its overall budget, more than the proportion of the country's GDP that is spent on education. As an organisation it is Europe's - and probably the worlds' - biggest spender of work-related learning. However, despite the proportion of NHS budget spent on learning each year, MORI research found that the delivery of education and training across the country is patchy, and some levels of staff have far less access to learning than staff at other levels.

Author: NHSU
First published: 2004

Corporate Universities: The Pragmatics of Organizational Learning

For a decade the number of multinational companies with corporate universities (CUs) has been steadily increasing. Areas of the public sector now have their equivalents, too - vide, the Defence Academy, Centrex, the National College for School Leadership, and the potentially colossal NHS University. It is wearing thin to dismiss the trend as just another corporate fad. But the disparate variety of CU initiatives - along with the usual tendencies towards corporate hyperbole - make it difficult to grasp the nature and significance of this development. So what is going on?

Author: Prof. Rob Paton, The Open University Business School.
First published: 2004

Corporate Universities: The UK Government Approach

These are challenging but exciting times in the public sector. Never has the public sector been under more pressure to improve the services it delivers but equally never have more resources been allocated to the public sector. As the Prime Minister has said "the public have paid their money and now expect better services"

Author: Margaret Saner, Head of Leadership Development Division, CMPS, Cabinet Office CMPS, UK Government’s Business School
First published: 2004