Essential part of educational landscape Corporate universities are now very much an accepted element of the educational landscape. Be it a physical presence of bricks and mortar or virtual learning via the internet and web, corporate universities no longer prompt raised eyebrows and puzzled looks | Read Effects of economic slowdown Investment that adds value to a company The consensus is that ploughing money into training must be part of the overall strategy of a business - and not just seen as an add-on to its activities. Learning centre Unipart University Unipart University is a multi-million-pound complex of state-of-the-art lecture halls and computerised learning centres in the heart of the Unipart group's headquarters building at Cowley, near Oxford. Corporate viewpoint More than just a learning process Employees can view courses as a way of helping them to develop the necessary skills that they require to achieve their personal and professional ambitions. Academic viewpoint Business strategy of co-operation and learning The makings of a true CU is not just a repackaging of the company's training department of the agglomeration of a bunch of disparate, unrelated courses into some framework.