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Opportunities for education experts to share best practice |
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Fostering debate, networking and exchange of information is an important part of our work in education. We do this by organising events which provide education professionals with opportunities to discuss the latest developments in education and to share best practice. We also organise a youth conference.
These are the three main types of events on which we have focused our work recently.
Our Café Education sessions bring together French and British education experts and practitioners to share experiences and debate themes of common interest via videoconference. Recent sessions have focussed on the Role of international partnerships in primary foreign language teaching, Creativity in Education and the Role of Foreign Language Assistants.
The next Café Education is planned for the Spring of 2007 and will focus on the process of setting up regional links and school partnerships.
In the context of the formal agreements between France and England and France and Scotland, expert groups including officials from the Departments of Education in both France, England and Scotland meet regularly to discuss themes related to education policy areas of joint interest . Examples of topics covered are: Responsible behaviour education and citizenship (only in French), Literacy Strategies and 14-19 year-olds and vocation education. Two expert groups are working on these issues. Read more about the issues raised in the Franco-Anglo-Scottish expert group and the Franco-Scottish expert group
Each year 6th form students from England and France take part in a youth conference focussing on a subject of topical interest.
The 2007 conference took place in Hothorpe, Leicestershire and was on the theme of “Sport, Media and Ethics” with a strong focus on rugby in the context of the ‘Parlez-vous Rugby’ project and in view of the 2007 Rugby World Cup.
The theme of the 2006 conference was “Making poverty history”.
Around 70 international relations officers, lecturers and vice-chancellors from French and British universities and grandes écoles met on 26 March 2007 at the British Council in Paris for a seminar on international challenges facing the UK and France in higher education.  The programme of the seminar aimed at presenting the UK higher education and English exams offer to the French audience and to identify and discuss themes of interest common to the UK and France in the field of higher education and research. Dr Marie-Marthe Gervais, Deputy Head and Head of Languages at Plymouth Business School, University of Plymouth gave a presentation on the UK higher education system allowing an interesting comparison of the two systems. Participants also took part in workshop discussions on common themes of interest such as the Bologna process, degree recognition and equivalences, the imbalance in student exchanges and research. These themes will serve as a basis for future debates and exchanges organised by the British Council.
We welcome your suggestions for future networking events via your DARIC. |
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