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French
Management Schools
Welcome International Students
With
thanks to Mr Jacques Perrin, General secretary of the chapter
of Management Schools within the Conference des Grandes Ecoles,
and, Director of High Education and Development of competences
and technological groups of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Nice/Côte d’Azur.
The
Conference of Grandes Ecoles is a non-profit association of
135 engineering schools, 30 Management schools (gathered in
the Chapter of the Management schools) and 15 schools of diverse
teaching-specialised and multiple teaching.
The Grandes Ecoles are institutions of higher education which
are either placed under the authority of the Ministry of Education
and six other ministries, private, or placed under the authority
of the Chambers of Commerce and Industry.
According to the
President of the Conference of the Grandes Ecoles, Mr Alain
Cadix, between 2000/2001, the Grandes Ecoles welcomed more
than 16,000 foreign students. 142 nationalities were represented.
57% of these students were welcomed in graduate programs,
and 23% of these last ones were postgraduate programs. With
regards to the successful opening of the Mastères Specialisés,
their composition is 22% foreign students.
How have the French
Management Schools embraced internationalisation Mr Perrin?
The French Management
schools have been very pro-active in the internationalisation
and the welcoming of foreign students.
From the 1970s, we can notice an academic strategy with a
number of partner institutions in order to sign exchange agreements.
This first trend
is based on the principle of reciprocal arrangements (one
student for one student). Students are offered the opportunity
of spending a significant period of time (3 months to one
year) of their studies in a partner institution abroad. The
inventory today shows an average of 35-40 academic partnerships
per school.
The second strategy, born in the 1980s has made foreign students
partly or fully participating to the program proposed by the
school in order to get a diploma.
The most significant
initiative in this field is the implementation of a consortium:
CIAM (International Center of admissions for Management studies)
including 5 of the biggest consular management schools (HEC,
ESCP-EAP, ESSEC, EMLyon and CERAM). CIAM is setting up and
organising the recruitment of foreign students from 35 location
around the world with the assistance of French cultural services
(branch of French Embassies), and is in charge of the promotion
of the different programs of the schools.
What are the effects
of globalisation on Management?
Globalisation does
not involve a unique, uniform and inflexible management. Many
streams are noticed in the management, as the introduction
of the new technologies offering students new programs become
more and more specific (ex. Management and Technology). Besides,
these changes attract many foreign students.
Unlike the American
system, the Management à la française takes
into consideration European cultural diversity: “Think
global, Act local” is not a myth! This is then a competitive
advantage for European schools. Globalisation speeds up the
internationalisation phenomenon of our own students (immersion
with foreign students in different cultures and ways of working
in an international context).
Could you explain
the role of the different accreditations AACSB, AMBA, and
EQUIS?
AACSB, founded
in 1916, is the premier accrediting agency for bachelors,
master’s and doctoral degree programs in business administration
and accounting. More than 400 institutions in the world are
accredited by the American association. AMBA is an English
accrediting association for MBAs and postgraduate programs.
EQUIS, the most
recent, is the most demanding accreditation on the European
scale. In order to obtain the accreditation, institutions
are suggested by EQUIS to step up targets of progress and
quality through the certification model EFQM.
Do you have a
message for the attention of international students?
French Management
schools welcome international students from the 4 corners
of the world. They will have a great opportunity to discover
the cultural and historical wealth of Europe, and the advantage
of living in an economic area-the European Union-with a rich
past and a promising future.
As far as Education,
Technology and Economy are concerned, Europe is inventing
and constructing a new model which is going to be a reference.
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