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
- 1 Why is the United Kingdom Important to Sciences Po?
- 2 Franco-Welsh Academic Partnerships: A Case Study Involving Transnational and Cross-sector Mobility
- 3 Double Diplomas: A Franco-British Training Route of Excellence for Teachers of French Worldwide?
- 4 The Entente Cordiale: A Grande École Engineering School Perspective
- 5 Links Between British Universities and French Instituts Universitaires de Technologie: New Forms of Collaboration
- 6 One Model: The Franco-German University
- 7 Raising Students' International Profile: How Do Universities Address This Issue in Europe?
- 8 Franco-British Academic Partnerships at the University of Provence
- 9 University College London and France: Teaching and Research Collaborations
- 10 Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne: An Overview of More Than 30 Years of Franco-British Partnerships
- 11 Towards a Vision for a Networked European Business School
- 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
- Index
5 - Links Between British Universities and French Instituts Universitaires de Technologie: New Forms of Collaboration
from Part I - Teaching and Training Partnerships
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Foreword by His Excellency Bernard Emié
- Foreword by Sir Peter Westmacott
- Preface
- Part I Teaching and Training Partnerships
- 1 Why is the United Kingdom Important to Sciences Po?
- 2 Franco-Welsh Academic Partnerships: A Case Study Involving Transnational and Cross-sector Mobility
- 3 Double Diplomas: A Franco-British Training Route of Excellence for Teachers of French Worldwide?
- 4 The Entente Cordiale: A Grande École Engineering School Perspective
- 5 Links Between British Universities and French Instituts Universitaires de Technologie: New Forms of Collaboration
- 6 One Model: The Franco-German University
- 7 Raising Students' International Profile: How Do Universities Address This Issue in Europe?
- 8 Franco-British Academic Partnerships at the University of Provence
- 9 University College London and France: Teaching and Research Collaborations
- 10 Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne: An Overview of More Than 30 Years of Franco-British Partnerships
- 11 Towards a Vision for a Networked European Business School
- 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
- Index
Summary
The Instituts Universitaires de Technologie (IUTs) play a very specific role in the French higher education system. They have been collaborating for over 20 years with British universities and, in the current period of change, we feel these collaborations, which concern the life skills and professional training of ordinary young people (not the elite), are precious, and need nurturing and supporting. As the older generation of dedicated academics and educators who put these programmes into action has retired or is retiring, a younger generation is reconsidering matters and inventing new ways of working. This chapter looks at how things have developed and are likely to develop in the future.
The IUT System in France
The IUT system dates back to 1966, when the idea of creating a twoyear diploma was launched that would give direct entry to the job market at the level of intermediate management, the so-called techniciens supérieurs. The aim was to produce university graduates better suited to the needs of the job market in the secondary and tertiary sectors. Today there are 115 IUTs in France, with over 115,000 students. Overall, the system has been a success in terms of both the employability of graduates and academic achievement.
The institutes are part of the universities, but with an autonomous status (although with the recent university reform in France things may evolve). Unlike French university undergraduate courses, IUTs are able to select their students, which probably explains the high rate of success (more than 90 per cent of those who enrol succeed in getting their diplomas).
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- Franco-British Academic PartnershipsThe Next Chapter, pp. 48 - 58Publisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 2011