In Shanghai,
the most difficult for an institution of higher education are not to sign a
partnership but well to make it live. Experience feedback with the UTSEUS, the
establishment launched jointly by three French universities of technology and
university of Shanghai. After four years of discreet existence, this
engineering school, which accounts 800 Chinese students, wants from now on to
open to the search and the international.
University of Shanghai
Created in
2005, this "university" in the university occupies modestly the third
floor of one of the buildings of the campus of Baoshan, in forty five minutes
of the city center of Shanghai. It is
designed as an American-style modern and green campus of about a square
kilometer. Any merged promotions, about 750 Chinese students follow their
studies of engineer in the UTSEUS today. They enter it having pass the Gaokao,
national competition of university entrance. These students spend the first
three years in Shanghai. 140 better have then the possibility of coming to make
their two years of Master's degree in one of the three UT(C) French. Others
stay in the University of Shanghai. At the same time, about twenty French
students end their last year in Shanghai.
The project
arose from the will of the UT(C) to implant a campus in Asia. «We always
thought that in a globalized world, it was necessary to go beyond the
agreements of double diplomas. We began with a classic market study and
canvassed from 10 to 12 universities; remember JX Paulin, then project manager
of the network of the UT(C) for the creation of the UTSEUS. What are our
conditions? Conclude a partnership with
a university which makes a commitment strongly in a city which moves. We knew
that the biggest Chinese universities (Tsinghua, Jiaotong) would not be
interested to put all their eggs in the same basket.
Develop technology in
emerging countries
Managed by
the government of the city-province, the University of Shanghai, which counts
among 100 better establishments of the country, turns out Francophile. Two of its
vice-presidents studied in France. It is
a precious tendency. But SHU sees especially its interest there. «We wished to
transfer the French model of the trainings of engineers and to prepare our
graduates to work in an intercultural context ", asserts Zhou Zhewei,
executive vice-president of the university of Shanghai.
This kind
of project met the success in China and is now going to be developing in Africa
as well, to contribute to the rise of the technological part of Africa. For
instance, JX Paulin will launch as specifically designed tablets for educative
purpose in emerging countries.
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