The head of one says that the atmosphere at a recent executive education programme became so poisonous that two European students were sent home.
Trium, a Global Executive MBA programme run jointly by NYU-Stern school, HEC Paris and the London School of Economics, is celebrating its tenth anniversary by adding a second cohort in 2012.
Mr Robinson said the Northern Ireland Executive's programme for government had made the economy "the key priority".
However, targets set out in the executive's programme for government were not met.
The first minister said the Northern Ireland Executive's Programme for Government has placed the economy as the top priority.
World Food Programme executive director Josette Sheeran told the BBC food was being brought in by road and air, and bought locally, but supplies were under "deep stress".
"The way humanity manages or mismanages its nature-based assets, including pollinators, will in part define our collective future in the 21st century, " said United Nations Environment Programme executive director Achim Steiner.
Bae-Yong Lee, Chairman of the Presidential Council on Nation Branding, Gun-Soo Kim, Secretary-General of the Expo Organizing Committee, Achim Steiner, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme, Wendy Watson-Wright, Executive Secretary of UNESCO-IOC, and Taeck-Soo Chun, Secretary-General of the Korean National Commission for UNESCO were present at the opening ceremony.
Chief executive Lee Reed told the programme he was "ashamed" by what had happened.
Praising the Senate bill, Peter Piot, executive director of the UN Programme on HIV-Aids, said US legislation before the G8 summit would "send a strong message that the global fight against Aids should be a top priority at this meeting".
Now Lars Rebien Sorensen, its chief executive, wants to replicate the programme in Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam.
An executive spokeswoman said its central heating programme focused on older people because evidence showed they were the most vulnerable group.
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Speaking to BBC Radio Four's Today programme, Ofqual chief executive Glenys Stacey said she believed teachers had marked the test "optimistically" rather than with a deliberate intention to inflate grades.
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"Many economies remain blind to the huge value of the diversity of animals, plants and other lifeforms and their role in healthy and functioning ecosystems, " said Achim Steiner, executive director of the UN Environment Programme (Unep).
Besides the UNESCO Assistant Director general for Social and Human Sciences, several other UNESCO representatives will participate in the debates as speakers, moderators or panelists, including the Executive Secretary of the UNESCO MOST programme and the Director of the UNESCO field office in Mexico.
The Chief Executive of the Special European Union Programme Body, Pat Colgan, told the BBC the fact that the UK and Irish governments have given the go ahead for a consultation about how any cash should be spent is a strong indication there's a political commitment to extend the peace funding.
It was brought to the UK by Lady Diana Whitmore, now chief executive of the charity that runs the programme.
Channel 4 chief executive Andy Duncan also stood by the programme, and denied it would harm the channel's campaign to secure new funds from the government.
Invited discussants included Laurence Tubiana , Director of the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI) in Paris and Anantha Duraiappah , Executive Director of the International Human Dimensions Programme (UNU-IHDP) in Bonn.
Invited discussants include Laurence Tubiana , Director of the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI) in Paris and Anantha Duraiappah , Executive Director of the International Human Dimensions Programme (UNU-IHDP) in Bonn.
That said, Jeremy Darroch, BSkyB's chief executive told Radio 4's Today programme that - having worked closely with James Murdoch as chairman for years -he had no doubt about the integrity of Mr Murdoch.
Speaking on the programme Terry Smith, chief executive of Tullett Prebon, added that many investors around the world are "living in a fool's paradise", expecting regulatory bodies or governments to bail them out if things go wrong.
Besides the UNESCO Assistant Director general for Social and Human Sciences, several other UNESCO representatives will participate in the debates as speakers, moderators or panelists, including the Executive Secretary of the UNESCO-MOST programme and the Director of the UNESCO Office in Mexico.
The draft claims that the Programme for Government reflects the Executive's commitment to building a more shared learning environment and goes on to argue that "it is vital that this process addresses sectarian divisions and results in a less segregated and more shared school system".
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Overseen by the new chief executive, Antony Jenkins, Barclays said that programme was already "substantially aligned" with the Salz Review's recommendations.
Mr Manwaring said breaking down the system step by step would pay dividends, but it required the executive to match the change with a work programme.
Following nomination by the Secretary-General, the General Assembly, on 25 August 2010, elected Joan Clos of Spain as Executive Director of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) at the level of Under-Secretary-General.
By contrast, both starvation and obesity are closely linked with poverty, and as such they are both symptoms of malnutrition, Ertharin Cousin, executive director of the United Nations World Food Programme, tells BBC News.
Speaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Barnardo's chief executive Anne Marie Carrie welcomed government support on childcare costs - which she said was the "single biggest barrier to raising children out of child poverty, and to people progressing on in work".
"The main concern of my party is that the fundamental, radical flaws and difficulties in our justice system and law and order in Scotland have not been addressed in the last five years by this executive and there's nothing in this programme to suggest that these will be addressed, " she said.
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