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
6 - Monique Canto-Sperber
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
It is a great pleasure and honour to take part in this seminar on Franco- British academic partnerships, and I would like first of all to thank the Embassy for organising it and giving us the opportunity to strengthen our connections and share our experiences and views of the future.
I am absolutely convinced that we are writing today a new chapter of our partnership. I do think indeed that something new is to come, something which actually started a few years ago but was recently reinforced, due to the extraordinary changes that occurred within both French and (to a lesser degree) British universities. More than ever, British academic institutions of higher education and research in their diversity (universities, institutes, schools, colleges) will become the privileged partners of French institutions, which also offer a great diversity of universities and Grandes Écoles. In this process, the École Normale Supérieure would like to play a major role.
The President of the International Board of the Conference of University Presidents (CUP), M. Jean-Pierre Gesson, has already mentioned the profound and ground-breaking changes which have affected French universities during the last three years, along with necessary and long-awaited reforms granting greater autonomy. More generally, a very broad reflection conducted by the universities themselves, notably within the CUP, has redefined their identity and their role in social life, since they are the very place for imparting knowledge and innovation, the surest way to wealth and prosperity for all in developed countries.
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- Franco-British Academic PartnershipsThe Next Chapter, pp. 215 - 218Publisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 2011