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
5 - Brigitte Porée: The French Grandes Écoles and British Universities
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
The Conférence des Grandes Écoles
The Conférence des Grandes Écoles (CGE) is a non-profit association founded in 1973. By 2010, the CGE had 291 members:
222 Grandes Écoles, representing 120,000 students and 30,000 graduates per year (149 Grandes Écoles of engineering, 38 of management and 22 of other specialties, as well as 13 universities abroad);
21 companies;
48 organisations or institutions in higher education.
The Grandes Écoles cover several fields of study: engineering sciences and management but also the arts, military training, veterinary medicine and teacher training.
They can be state or private institutions. Public Grandes Écoles are placed (for practical, administrative and financial reasons) under the authority of different Ministries: Higher Education, Agriculture, Defence, Industry, Economy, Infrastructure and Public Works. Most management schools were created and are supervised by chambers of commerce and industry.
They award diplomas (diplôme d'ingénieur, diplôme de management) which are equivalent to a master's degree. They are all under the pedagogical authority of the Ministry of Higher Education.
The role of the CGE is:
to facilitate the transfer information between its members and to develop their solidarity;
to promote the Grande École system on both a national and an international scale;
to encourage innovations in engineering and management education;
to develop continuing education and research activities;
to act as a voice with governmental policy makers and the research community.
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- Franco-British Academic PartnershipsThe Next Chapter, pp. 211 - 214Publisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 2011