Corporate Universities next generation: Bruno Dufour with contributions from Tom Cummings

Blog Educpros de Bruno Dufour.
Quick survey of Corporate Universities’ history
The explicit tradition of training employees on a large scale could go back to the start of the Industrial Revolution. In “The End of the Practical Man, Entrepreneurship and Higher education in Germany, France and Great Britain 1880-1940”, Jai Press 1984) Robert R. Locke makes a close connection between Graduate Engineering Education, Economics, the raise of Management as a science  (Taylor, Fayol) and the performances and progress of industry. He summed up the debate with the question: “Did industry prod the schools, or did the schools prod industry?” p71. Suite...