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
7 - Sir Howard Davies: Franco-British University Collaboration – Can We Realise Churchill's 1940 Vision?
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
Partnerships seem to be the name of the game these days. Nowhere more so than in academia. But let's first set that in context.
At 16 per cent, the United Kingdom's proportion of foreign students is large by international standards, but the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), with two-thirds of its students drawn from outside the United Kingdom, is an even more graphic illustration of the global village which is now higher education.
I am pleased to say that French students now account for some 400 of an LSE student body of around 9000. So it is a substantial proportion – and a steadily growing one, having doubled over the last 10 years. This growth has to be seen against the background of the increase in joint and double degrees offered by British universities of the elite Russell Group, of which ‘Europe’ takes the lion's share. But, that said, the overall number of bilateral programmes as such remains rather modest, compared with the number of programmes which have a multilateral Erasmus Mundus component.
For the LSE, three partnerships form the core of our ‘French strategy’: first (and in no order of precedence), our relationship with our partner institution in the social sciences, Sciences Po, Paris; second, our relationship with the school of management, HEC; and, third, our research programme with Toulouse 1 – specifically through the Paul Woolley Centres for the Study of Capital Market Dysfunctionality.
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- Franco-British Academic PartnershipsThe Next Chapter, pp. 219 - 221Publisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 2011