Corporate Training: An Opportunity For Diversification
- Charlotte Gorse
- Feb 9
- 1 min read
Updated: May 23
Corporate training offers the opportunity to diversify income streams for universities and breathe new life into industry relationships and degree learning.
Executive education or micro credentials enable participants to return to employers with job-ready skills and real-time knowledge. As well as improving employment outcomes, they increase access: a welcome entry point to higher education for those at risk of being left behind as the squeeze on funded learning increases.
Well-conceived corporate training designed for professionals is more affordable and flexible in delivery. It also offers health and wellbeing support for those challenged by increasingly uncertain work, a competitive job market, or a demanding work-life balance.
An extended portfolio also offers the chance for universities to flourish with a more nimble operating model, broadening their unique reach, bolstering research and enterprise alliances, and delivering tangible impact, all while consolidating subject missions, if needed.
Such training provides a means of demonstrating industry relevance, adaptability, and a commitment to help those returning to professional learning: a symbiotic relationship between work and study, enhancing degree outcomes, not replacing them. Academia and business driving economic growth and social transformation.
Create Luxury is ideally positioned to support institutions to diversify their portfolio, mission and income streams in this rapidly changing education and training environment.
