ERIC Digest - ED301142 ERIC Digest ED301142 Corporate Education. Practitioners Corporate education is an extensive, multifaceted endeavor, costing billions of dollars, educating millions of people, and absorbing many working hours annually.
Offerings range from remedial to postgraduate level management and technical courses.
Corporate educators are fulfilling educational needs of nontraditional students, often before colleges and universities respond. Corporate education is structured similarly to collegiate instruction, facilitating transfer and student mobility and making possible a variety of cooperative efforts. Corporate programs have also opened channels of communication between business and schools concerning educational content and methods. The growth of corporate education is a stimulus to both internal collegiate debates and public policy-making. Many profitable educational ventures have begun with employers' recognition of their responsibilities to employees.