French business school INSEAD has announced the establishment of a new campus in San Francisco, signalling its intention to expand into North America.
The INSEAD facility in San Francisco is expected to provide a platform for innovative and dynamic global management education in North America.
Currently, INSEAD has campuses located in in Europe (Fontainebleau, France), Asia (Singapore) and the Middle East (Abu Dhabi).
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An INSEAD study has shown that business investors are vocal advocates for gender diversity in boardrooms, but in practice are falling short.
Despite proclamations of support for a move towards a better gender balance, new INSEAD research suggests that investors perceive companies which increase female representation on their board as having a weaker commitment to shareholder value.
The study found specifically that among firms that had made other investments in gender diversity, the appointment of female directors to the board reduced a firm’s market value relative to the value of the company’s physical assets by almost 6 percent.
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France’s emlyon Business School has forged a formal partnership with global hospitality and holiday resort company Club Med to progress hospitality research.
The partnership between France’s emlyon and Club Med will focus specifically on research activities, pedagogy and executive education.
As part of their drive to progress research, professors and researchers from the emlyon Lifestyle Research Centre will undertake ethnographic research to address key issues for Club Med.
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The second Indo-French Knowledge Summit is to take place at the Universite de Lyon in France. The summit’s focus is to be higher education, research and innovation.
This contributes to the continued enhancement of education cooperation between the two nations that we reported on in August this year.
Organised by the Embassy of France in India in partnership with Universite de Lyon, Campus France, and Emlyon Business School on the French side, and the Ministries of Science and Technology and Human Resource Development (MHRD) on the Indian side, the event will be inaugurated by ministers from both French and Indian governments.
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The constitutional court of France has ruled against increasing tuition fees for non-EU foreign students, which would have seen fees rise over ten times for some courses.
France’s Conseil Constitutionnel (constitutional court) has ruled that free access to public higher education is a constitutional right in France.
This helps to protect foreign students coming to France for their education against a proposed tuition fees hike.
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France and India have indicated their desire to enhance their education cooperation following in-depth talks between Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and French President Emmanuel Macron.
This comes after our earlier report that France intend to double Indian student numbers by 2025.
Both countries expressed that they were satisfied by the status of student mobility between the two countries, which has been aided by the teaching of French in India and the creation of the network of schools for Excellence in French.
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Legrand India has this month announced the second batch of 25 deserving students for its Legrand India UGAM scholarship programme, Business World Education revealed.
The scholarship programme was launched in association with the Franco-Indian Education Trust (part of the French Embassy in India) with the support of Whiteswan Consulting Group.
Through the UGAM scholarship programme, Legrand India hopes to promote quality education and assist deserving students in pursuing their Masters degrees in France in recognised disciplines.
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ARTE France is looking to ramp up the development of its Educ’ARTE initiative in a bid to expand the offer to more students in Europe.
In a statement posted on its website in June, the French government said that ARTE France is set to provide new versions of services for Educ’ARTE in order to reach students in primary to tertiary schools in Europe. It is also taking part in discussions on a common educational offer from public broadcasters.
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