Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Foreword by His Excellency
- Foreword
- 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: Shadow Minister for Universities and Skills
- 2 Valérie Pécresse: Ministre de l'Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche
- 3 Rick Trainor: Principal, King's College London
- 4 Florentine Petit: Direction des Relations Européennes et Internationales et de la Coopération, Ministère de l'Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche
- 5 Brigitte Porée: The French Grandes Écoles and British Universities: Director of International Affairs, Conférence des Grandes Écoles
- 6 Monique Canto-Sperber: Director of the École Normale Supérieure, Paris
- 7 Sir Howard Davies: Franco-British University Collaboration – Can We Realise Churchill's 1940 Vision?: Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science
- 8 Adam Steinhouse: Academic–Government Partnerships – A Pragmatic View: Head of School of European Studies at the National School of Government
- 9 Hélène Duchêne: Directeur des Politiques de Mobilité et d'Attractivité, Direction de la Mondialisation, du Développement et des Partenariats, Ministère des Affaires Étrangères
- 10 Support for Higher Education from the French Embassy: Philippe Lane and Serge Plattard
- 11 Strengths and Opportunities in the British University System: Philippe Lane and Serge Plattard
9 - Hélène Duchêne: Directeur des Politiques de Mobilité et d'Attractivité, Direction de la Mondialisation, du Développement et des Partenariats, Ministère des Affaires Étrangères
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
- Foreword
- 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: Shadow Minister for Universities and Skills
- 2 Valérie Pécresse: Ministre de l'Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche
- 3 Rick Trainor: Principal, King's College London
- 4 Florentine Petit: Direction des Relations Européennes et Internationales et de la Coopération, Ministère de l'Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche
- 5 Brigitte Porée: The French Grandes Écoles and British Universities: Director of International Affairs, Conférence des Grandes Écoles
- 6 Monique Canto-Sperber: Director of the École Normale Supérieure, Paris
- 7 Sir Howard Davies: Franco-British University Collaboration – Can We Realise Churchill's 1940 Vision?: Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science
- 8 Adam Steinhouse: Academic–Government Partnerships – A Pragmatic View: Head of School of European Studies at the National School of Government
- 9 Hélène Duchêne: Directeur des Politiques de Mobilité et d'Attractivité, Direction de la Mondialisation, du Développement et des Partenariats, Ministère des Affaires Étrangères
- 10 Support for Higher Education from the French Embassy: Philippe Lane and Serge Plattard
- 11 Strengths and Opportunities in the British University System: Philippe Lane and Serge Plattard
Summary
Today's meeting has shown how high expectations are on both sides of the Channel, as well as the need to broaden and better publicise our partnerships in higher education and research.
At the Evian Franco-British Summit on 6 July 2010, our heads of state and government were keen to reiterate their commitment to a ‘single market for knowledge thoroughly dedicated to the support and promotion of innovation [in Europe]. To this end, France and the United Kingdom [have called for] the full implementation of the European Research Area.’
Our action is indeed more than ever part of the European framework, for which bilateral cooperation is a prerequisite. The bilateral programmes which we develop, in both teaching and research, are seen by the French Ministry for Foreign and European Affairs as excellent vectors of European integration, as they prepare, and even train, the actors involved in this cooperation to use European logical concepts and instruments.
I would like to focus on the new possibilities highlighted by the many examples presented today and, after recalling what our common goal is, also on what is happening elsewhere, in Europe and in the world.
In Higher Education
Our Common Goal: To Increase Student and Teacher Mobility in Europe
(a) Twenty Per Cent Mobility in 2020
The European Council of Ministers for Education in May 2009 accepted the new student goals the European Ministers for Higher Education had proposed in Louvain-la-Neuve in April on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the Bologna Process. Thus, in 2020, 20 per cent of European graduates will be required to complete a period of study abroad.
We support this target, all the more so as France had been strongly committed during its Presidency of the EU to the mobility of young Europeans, especially students and young people in vocational training. The goal in Europe now is that periods of learning abroad will become the rule rather than the exception.
(b) Learn from Experiences Elsewhere in Europe and in the World
Methodological work by the European University Association is rich and useful to higher education institutions wishing to enhance their cooperation. It is a platform of good practices which should help us design quality degree programmes.
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- Franco-British Academic PartnershipsThe Next Chapter, pp. 224 - 227Publisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 2011