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L’Oréal Brandstorm – the only EOCCS-certified youth innovation competition
The 32nd edition of Brandstorm, L’Oréal’s signature innovation competition for young people, has just launched. L’Oréal Brandstorm is L’Oréal’s Group’s signature innovation competition for young people. Brandstorm is one of L’Oréal’s longest-running programs, dedicated to helping youth kickstart their careers. The competition takes place annually, and each year, it challenges young minds with a different…
Read More‘Are we there yet?’ The long drive to online mastery for business schools
Anyone who has been a child sitting in the back of a vehicle on a long journey will have heard or uttered the question: “Are we there yet?” For children (and adults) disengaged from the process of driving the vehicle, the journey can appear to be endless. If the destination is too distant, or the road…
Read MorePaella, and successful online engagement
No visit to Spain is complete without sampling a delicious dish of paella. However, obtaining agreement on the “best” or “original” recipe for this Valencian or Catalan delicacy is more problematic. Is it a meat dish? Is it seafood fare? Does the rice go in first or last?… The 7th annual EOCCS learning community symposium, hosted…
Read MoreOnline engagement: EOCCS Learning Community symposium 14-15 September
This blog is an unapologetic plug for the 7th EOCCS Learning Community symposium on the topic of online engagement. When considering this blog post, I remembered the various blogs I have written over the years on the subject of engagement. Blogs such as: Marvellous – a blueprint for student engagement? and, Youth (and education) wasted…
Read MoreCEDEP and Rome Business School courses receive EOCCS certification
We are pleased to announce that the following institutions were recently granted the EOCCS certification for their courses: CEDEP Mastering Business Excellence – Learning in a Virtual Environment Rome Business School – three courses part of the Master in Marketing and Sales. Accounting and Budgeting Human Resources Management Project and Operations Management Acknowledging the institutions,…
Read MoreOut of class – out of mind?
In an EOCCS Community webinar held on 31 May 2023, our focus was on what students get up to outside the classroom. In many conventional or traditional models of teaching the focus is on the key contact hours. What students do outside the classroom is often summarised as “private study”. Reading lists and guided reading…
Read MoreTrust me…I’m a micro-credential!
Micro-credentials have become synonymous with short, flexible, stackable, affordable, inclusive qualifications focused on skills development. Most recently, they have proliferated through the medium of online instruction. In the recent EOCCS Community webinar “Making micro-credentials work” (available on YouTube), our panellists discussed a number of practical issues relating to micro-credentials, including the central question of trust.…
Read MoreCall for Nominations to the EFMD Quality Services Committees
The EFMD Quality Services Team is inviting EFMD member schools and corporations to nominate potential members of the Quality Services Committees. Nominations are sought for members of the EQUIS Committee and the EQUIS Accreditation Board, the EFMD Programme Accreditation Committee and the EFMD Programme Accreditation Board, the EDAF Committee, and the EOCCS Certification Board. Members’…
Read MoreWe may need face-to-face learning but do we really need face-to-face assessment?
At this stage of recovery, following the pandemic, many Universities are reflecting on their experience of remote learning and remote assessment. The reflection is not always comfortable. Of course, the pandemic was an emergency, and had Universities been blessed with the time to consider the challenges of online exams and other assessments, we may have…
Read MoreThe Brandstorm Youth Innovation Competition by L’Oréal receives EOCCS certification
We are delighted to announce that The Brandstorm Youth Innovation Competition organised by L’Oréal has been awarded EOCCS certification. ‘Warm congratulations to L’Oréal for this achievement! We are happy to celebrate the competition’s 30th year by certifying its commitment to upskilling young talent worldwide,’ said Keith Pond, EOCCS Director. L’Oréal has put forward an incubator…
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