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This post is a translation from an article written by Olivier Basso, Associate Professor at CNAM and Thomas Durand, Professor of Strategic Management at CNAM and published in Les Echos on 23/01/2015 and available here: http://www.lesechos.fr/idees-debats/editos-analyses/0204092637475-le-big-bang-annonce-des-business-schools-francaises-1085992.php#xtor=CS1-2. All rights reserved by the author and the publisher. This translation is only aimed at non-French readers who would […]
September 8, 2014
Last week, an article in the Financial Times written by a French-American professor working in a French business school (http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/0d9b5672-df74-11e3-8842-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3Chkkj2uj ) created some waves in the Grandes Ecoles microcosm with at least 2 articles in the French press (http://etudiant.lefigaro.fr/orientation/actus-et-conseils/detail/article/la-charge-du-financial-times-contre-les-grandes-ecoles-francaises-8574/ and http://www.atlantico.fr/decryptage/ft-en-prend-aux-grandes-ecoles-francaises-pour-deficit-formations-en-relations-humaines-mais-est-tellement-mieux-ailleurs-1740307.html ) and lots of rolling eyes in this usually hushed environment. Basically, the article […]
August 19, 2014
There is a relatively constant and accepted view that higher education should be not-for-profit and that for profit institutions are necessarily bad. I always wondered why we have this specific view for higher education, largely endorsed by the media. One of the main reasons I think is that we consider education as a common good, […]
July 21, 2014
First, let’s start with disclaimers. I know that it is very easy to make judgments on past decisions, particularly when they look wrong and that the same people who criticize the strategic choices made by a business school, would be the same ones applauding them if they had been successful. Criticizing is easy, doing is […]
July 16, 2014
Short answer is no. Long answer is below! The French assembly is about a new law aimed at supporting the development of a large portion of the best French Business Schools. Before we discuss it, I need to do (again) a brief history of the French Bschools system for those of you who are not […]
July 15, 2014
Last week, we had 2 interesting news: Sasin Graduate Institute of Business Administration, one of the BSchools in South East Asia, hired the former Dean of Insead and Kellogg to become its next Dean. RMIT also announced that they hired an Aussie as their new VC, but who was previously the successful boss of the […]
November 13, 2013
In the past 6 months, several important news came up about higher education in Africa: . In January, IFC, a member of the World Bank, invested 150 million USD into the private for-profit Laureate Group to develop activities in Latin America and MENA. The first publicized use of this cash was to take a significant […]
November 11, 2013
Recently, the president of the French Association of University Presidents (CPU) published an article in “Le Monde” where it stated that “Everyone knows, and students realize that when they enter into a school, in “Grandes Ecoles”, teaching is not very good.” As you may guess, this sparked lots of reactions. This is another of these […]
July 4, 2013
The recent report from the European Union’s High Level Group on the Modernisation of Higher Education (http://ec.europa.eu/education/higher-education/doc/modernisation_en.pdf ) has generated many articles in the area, for example in University World News (http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=2013062121081920) or the EU Observer (http://euobserver.com/education/120537). This report follows similar reports from the OECD such as “Fostering High quality teaching in high education” (http://www.oecd.org/edu/imhe/QT%20policies%20and%20practices.pdf […]
June 21, 2013
Having worked in many different parts of the world, I am still surprised by the almost inexistent presence of the French business schools on the international higher education scene. Hold on! You will certainly tell me, French business schools are very active. Indeed, they have sent and received students on exchange in many countries for […]
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