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Franco-British Academic Partnerships: The Next Chapter: The Next Chapter

Philippe Lane and Maurice Fraser

Abstract

The steady increase in joint programmes and qualifications offered by UK and French universities is a cause for celebration. But language constraints, financial pressures and political uncertainty present obstacles to continued expansion. How are these to be overcome? And how can higher education institutions on either side of the Channel help each other to realise the enormous potential of Franco-British partnerships? This book takes stock of intensifying bilateral cooperation in the higher education sector, and shares experience and best practice. Initiatives and areas for collaboration are ... More

Keywords: joint programmes, joint qualifications, language constraints, financial pressures, bilateral cooperation, best practice, initiatives, collaboration

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2011 Print ISBN-13: 9781846316630
Published to Liverpool Scholarship Online: June 2013 DOI:10.5949/UPO9781846316777

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Philippe Lane, editor

Maurice Fraser, editor

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Contents

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Notes on Contributors

Foreword

Foreword

Preface

Part I: Teaching and Training Partnerships

1 Why is the United Kingdom Important to Sciences Po?

Francis Vérillaud and Agueda Perez Muñoz

2 Franco-Welsh Academic Partnerships: A Case Study Involving Transnational and Cross-sector Mobility

Huw Landeg Morris1

3 Double Diplomas: A Franco-British Training Route of Excellence for Teachers of French Worldwide?

Marian Carty, Colin Christie, Danièle Flament-Boistrancourt, Marc Klein, Hazel Crichton and Brian Templeton

4 The Entente Cordiale: A Grande École Engineering School Perspective

Christopher Cripps and Julie Mcdonald

5 Links Between British Universities and French Instituts Universitaires de Technologie: New Forms of Collaboration

Sylvie Decaux, Marie-Annick Mattioli and Guillaume Robin

6 One Model: The Franco-German University

Jochen Hellmann

7 Raising Students' International Profile: How Do Universities Address This Issue in Europe?

Florence Mele

8 Franco-British Academic Partnerships at the University of Provence

Valérie André and Jean Viviès

9 University College London and France: Teaching and Research Collaborations

Myriam Hunter-Henin and Mike Wilson

10 Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne: An Overview of More Than 30 Years of Franco-British Partnerships1

Renaud Le Goix, Pascal de Vareilles-Sommières and Christine Mengin

11 Towards a Vision for a Networked European Business School

Chris Cooper

Part II: Research Partnerships

12 Franco-British Academic Partnership: Perspective from Imperial College London

Stephen Luckhurst, Jennifer Cooke and Julia Buckingham

13 Sorbonne University's Franco-British Partnerships

Gilbert Béréziat

14 The École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE), Paris: Research Collaboration Between Britain and France

Laurence Frabolot and Christophe Valia-Kollery

15 International University Partnerships and the Role of the French Connection: The Experience of a London College

Philip Ogden and Andrew Hussey1

16 Maison Française d'Oxford: A Hub of Academic Cooperation for the Humanities and Social Sciences in Oxford

Luc Borot

17 Multicultural London English/Multicultural Paris French

Penelope Gardner-Chloros, Françoise Gadet and Jenny Cheshire

18 Franco-British Cooperation in the Social Sciences During a Period of Structural Reform: Current Positions and Prospects

Denis Hilton

19 The Publishing Industry and Research Perspectives

Bertrand Legendre and Françoise Benhamou1

Part III: Broader Perspectives

20 Faire Mieux Ensemble: A New Approach to Franco-British Research Collaboration for Growth and Employment

Andrew Robinson

21 Internationalising Higher Education: The Role of the British Council

John Law and Kevin Van-Cauter

22 CampusFrance, the French Agency Dedicated to International Mobility in Higher Education and Research

Solange Pisarz

23 The Role of the UK Media in the Communications Strategies of France's Grande École Business Schools

Brigitte Fournier1

24 The Franco-British Connections: A Student/Alumni Network Supporting Franco-British Student Initiatives

David Wahl

25 A Golden Triangle: Universities, Research and Business. A Comparative Perspective Between the UK and France

Pascal Boris and Arnaud Vaissié1

End Matter

Appendix 1 David Willetts, MP

Appendix 2 Valérie Pécresse

Appendix 3 Rick Trainor

Appendix 4 Florentine Petit

Appendix 5 Brigitte Porée: The French Grandes Écoles and British Universities

Appendix 6 Monique Canto-Sperber

Appendix 7 Sir Howard Davies: Franco-British University Collaboration-Can We Realise Churchill's 1940 Vision?

Appendix 8 Adam Steinhouse: Academic–Government Partnerships – A Pragmatic View

Appendix 9 Hélène Duchêne

Appendix 10 Support for Higher Education from the French Embassy

Appendix 11 Strengths and Opportunities in the British University System

Index