Google has announced its first formal teaching collaboration with a university. Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales de Paris (HEC), a leading French business school, has announced a partnership with Google France that will see the search-engine giant assist in developing digital entrepreneurs, The New York Times reported. “Google can help us train students to become entrepreneurs in digital business,” said HEC director general Bernard Ramanantsoa. The collaboration, Google@HEC, will include lectures, seminars and meetings for students taught by digital entrepreneurs and Google employees. Jean-Marc Tassetto, director general of Google France, said it was the first partnership of its kind. “We are entering a new phase in transformation and cooperation,” he said.
Source: Times Higher Education http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=419009&c=1