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
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
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
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. The further development of these partnerships is as strong a priority for us as our work in progress with other first-division universities around the world, such as Columbia, New York University (NYU), Beijing, Cape Town and the National University of Singapore.
Starting with Sciences Po – our most extensive partnership – we have attempted to build on the tried-and-tested principle that the most successful marriages tend to be ones where the partners have a lot in common, including plenty of shared interests. With our specialisation in the social sciences and intimate engagement with the world of public policy, LSE and Sciences Po – two institutions with very different funding models – have been able to pool our strengths and we have, I believe, come up with pedagogical offerings which are more than the sum of their parts. Together we offer double degree master's programmes in International Relations, European Studies, Development Economics, and Urban Policy.
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- Franco-British Academic PartnershipsThe Next Chapter, pp. 219 - 221Publisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 2011