Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Foreword by His Excellency Bernard Emié
- Foreword by Sir Peter Westmacott
- Preface
- Part I Teaching and Training Partnerships
- Part II Research Partnerships
- Part III Broader Perspectives
- Appendices: Addresses and Speeches at the Franco-British Academic Partnerships Seminar, French Institute, London, 5 February 2010
- 1 David Willetts, MP
- 2 Valérie Pécresse
- 3 Rick Trainor
- 4 Florentine Petit
- 5 Brigitte Porée: The French Grandes Écoles and British Universities
- 6 Monique Canto-Sperber
- 7 Sir Howard Davies: Franco-British University Collaboration – Can We Realise Churchill's 1940 Vision?
- 8 Adam Steinhouse: Academic–Government Partnerships – A Pragmatic View
- 9 Hélène Duchêne
- 10 Support for Higher Education from the French Embassy
- 11 Strengths and Opportunities in the British University System
- Index
2 - Valérie Pécresse
from Appendices: Addresses and Speeches at the Franco-British Academic Partnerships Seminar, French Institute, London, 5 February 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Foreword by His Excellency Bernard Emié
- Foreword by Sir Peter Westmacott
- Preface
- Part I Teaching and Training Partnerships
- Part II Research Partnerships
- Part III Broader Perspectives
- Appendices: Addresses and Speeches at the Franco-British Academic Partnerships Seminar, French Institute, London, 5 February 2010
- 1 David Willetts, MP
- 2 Valérie Pécresse
- 3 Rick Trainor
- 4 Florentine Petit
- 5 Brigitte Porée: The French Grandes Écoles and British Universities
- 6 Monique Canto-Sperber
- 7 Sir Howard Davies: Franco-British University Collaboration – Can We Realise Churchill's 1940 Vision?
- 8 Adam Steinhouse: Academic–Government Partnerships – A Pragmatic View
- 9 Hélène Duchêne
- 10 Support for Higher Education from the French Embassy
- 11 Strengths and Opportunities in the British University System
- Index
Summary
This seminar on Franco-British academic partnerships comes at a time when French higher education is entering a phase of deep mutation, the main characteristics of which I wish to recall here.
Since 2007, higher education has been a top priority for the French government, which is keen to bring universities back to the centre of the French education and research system, so that it can become a fully fledged actor on the international stage, able to respond to its challenges.
The central element of this reform is the law on the Liberties and Responsibilities of Universities (LRU), passed on 10 August 2007. This law defines the missions of universities in the field of teaching and research, and in the organisation of student life, careers advice and professional integration – the last two of these having now explicitly become obligations for the institutions. It draws the broad outline of a new governance for universities, where the powers of presidents and the competences of university councils are redefined; it strengthens the contract between the state and the institutions and grants universities a large degree of autonomy in managing their budgets.
The LRU also encourages institutions to better position themselves in their local, regional and also international environment. Thus it is now possible for universities and other academic institutions to create ‘poles of research and higher education’ (PRES), which can lead to the merging of partner institutions, as has been the case in Strasbourg.
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- Franco-British Academic PartnershipsThe Next Chapter, pp. 205 - 207Publisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 2011