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Citation
(1999), "French connection", Education + Training, Vol. 41 No. 4. https://doi.org/10.1108/et.1999.00441dab.012
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 1999, MCB UP Limited
French connection
French connection
Keywords Chambers of commerce, Management development, Universities
The Open University Business School has signed an agreement with the Chambre de Commerce et de l'Industrie de Paris (CCIP) to translate and adapt a "Capable Manager" course for French-speaking markets.
The CCIP is a public institution that represents some 40 per cent of all major French firms and is responsible for three business schools in the Paris area. It is also a central part of a network of chambers of commerce throughout France that will give the Open University courses access to various French-based multinationals and corporate clients.
"We are keen to acquire knowledge about distance teaching and how it can help to provide management development for junior managers throughout France", said Hubert Bonal, project director for CCIP and former dean of the Dijon Business School. "With this agreement we hope that the adaptation of Open University Business School courses into French will enable us to deliver the general-management programme currently offered in English to more than 4,000 students a year".
The first students are expected to enrol early next year.
The Open University Business School already has students studying courses throughout Europe, Africa and Asia in English, and in translation as far afield as Russia and Argentina. But this is the first agreement to be reached with a major EU business institution.