Bologna Conference on Student Mobility

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Bologna Conf erence on Student Mobility

Bologna and the internationalization of higher

education:

risks and opportunities

for the Louvain School of Engineering

Marc Lobelle

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Contents

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Traditional student mobility in the Louvain School of Engineering

« Bologna » induced changes in student mobility practices

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Un projet en cours: Dual masters

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Le problème des langues: nouvelles initiatives

D'autres pistes possibles

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Traditional student mobility in Louvain School of

Engineering

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ERASMUS/SOCR ATES mobility

- 1 year in 4th

- 1 term in 5th (courses or final work)

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TIME Double Degrees

- 6 year study program, including 2 years in another TIME institution

- 2 different engineering degrees from 2 universities (or French Grandes Ecoles).

- Most attractive destinations for our students:

l Ecole Centrale Paris: 2+2+2 l Supaéro: 4+2

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Traditional student mobility in Louvain

School of engineering( 2)

2007-2008

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Traditional student mobilit y in EPL (3)

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Going to (2007-2008)

OUT 2007-2008

MAP MA TR ME CA ARCH ELEC GC INCH ELME INFO

Allema gne 1 KIT 1

Pays Bas 6 TUDelft_TUE 2 1 ₁ 1₁

Espa gne 10 UPM 1 La Coruna 1 2 UPV 1 1 1 UPC 1 1 1 Italie 2 U.Pisa 1 PoliTo 1 Fra nce 7 ECP 1 Supaéro 2 ENSICA 1 1 IFP 1 1 Finlande 1 TKK 1

Hongrie 3 BME Budapest 1 1 1

Tché quie 4 CTU Prague 1 1 1 1

Dane mark 2 DTU 1 1

Suisse 4 EPFL 1 2 1

Irla nde 2 TCD 1

U. Limerick 1

Irla nde N 1 Belfast 1

Suè de 6 KTH 1 2 Linköpings U 1 Lunds U 1 1 Norvège 4 NTU 3 1 Cana da 14 Laval 2 U.Montreal 1 1 2 U. Moncton 1 U. Sherbrooke 1 3 SFU Vancouver 1 1 USA 9 U. Clems on 1 U. Illinois UC 1 3 U. Texas 1 OklahomaSU 1 1 1

Vene zuela 1 S. Bolivar 1

Pérou 1 PUC 1

Me x ique 1 IPN Mexico 1

Chili 7

PUC 1 2

U. Chile 1 1

UTFSM Valparaiso 1 1

Arge ntine 2 ITBA 1 1

Vie tnam 1 IFI 1

Belgique 5 KULeuven 2 2 1

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Traditional student mobility in Louvain

School of Engineering (4)

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Coming from (2008-2008)

IN 2007-2008

MAP MATR MECA ARCH ELEC GC INCH GNUC INFO

Allemagne 4 TUD 2 KIT 1 RWTH 1 Espagne 12 UPM 1 2 UPC 2 La Coruna 2 2 UPV 2 Cantabria 1 Italie 4 PoliTo 1 PoliMi 2 La Sapienza 1 France 1 ENSSAT 1 U.Rennes ENSICA Finlande 1 TKK 1 Roumanie 1 U.Bucarest 1 Turquie 2 U.Istanbul 2 Russie 2 TPU 1 1 Canada 3 Laval 2 U.Montreal 1 Venezuela 2 S. Bolivar 2 Pérou 1 PUC 1 Vietnam 2 IFI 2 Belgique KULeuven Totaux 35 9 2 2 10 4 2 2 1 3

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Changes induced by the « Bologna » scheme

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The Bologna scheme:

no more 5 year integrated stydy program in engineering

bachelor (3 years)

master (2 years)

Traditional mobility : horizontal mobility

The student goes and comes back

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New possible mobility: vertical mobility

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Changes induced by the « Bologna » scheme (2)

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Principle of vertical mobility:

good students do their master degree in the best institutions for the (sub)

orientation they have selectedl

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Opportunity and risk:

- Opportuni ty: attract good students from other i nstitutions after the bachelor degree

targets: best students in « weaker » universities

students interested in our fields of excellence (even in « strong » universities)

- Risk: our good students might leave us after getting their bachelor degree when our fileds of excellence do not matc h what they are l ooking for or if they find even better somewhere else

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Changes induced by the « Bologna » scheme (3

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The challenge:

exploit opportunities and reduce risks

develop our attractivity

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Two ways to improve our attractiveness

- Dual masters

- Accessibility for non French speaking people

(without frightening the Frenc h speaking people)

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Dual masters

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Principle of the «

dual

dual

master »:

two (good) institutions set up a

common program

- Strenghten the s trong points (broader choic e of advanced cours es)

- Provide more subdomai ns of excellence

- Give an international dimens ion to the program (or i nter-regional)

- Typically one year in each institution

- Students get 2 degrees from the two i nstitutions

The degrees are clearly linked: single pre-established program

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Differences with TIME “

double

double

degree”

- Same field of study in both institutions vs different fields (complementary) (computing/c omputing) vs (computing/aeronauti cs)

- Integrated program vs concatenated programs

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Dual masters (2)

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Practical issues

- One year here and one year at the partner (us ually in any order)

- Registration and fees in the home uni versity

- Open for students coming from third institutions (they regis ter wher they spend the 1st _year)

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Differences with traditional ERASMUS scheme

(e.g. one year exchange in 4

study year)

- Fulfill the requirements of the 2 instrtutions and not onl y of the home institution structured program,

cset-up jointly by the partner i nstitutions

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Dual masters (4)

With whom ?

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Other CLUSTER institutions

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KULeuven

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Clemson, ...,

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Dual masters (5)

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Programs starting in 2008

- Cluster:

l Barcelona (UPC): Computing, Telecom l Lisbon (IST): Telecom

l Stockholm (KTH): Nuclear

- KULeuven:

probably most engineering f ields

- Clemson:

mecanical engineering

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Projets 2009: KTH, TKK, INPG, IST , ...

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What language ?

- KULeuven: each institution in her own language

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The teaching language issue

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What language for the masters ?

- French ? (traditi onal situation)

l Our attractivity is decreasing (less ERASMUS IN)

- English is the universal second language

- The status of the French language is decreasing from ''the diplomatic language”

to a “local language” such as Dutcg or Letton

- The higher education offering in English is increasing. (Northern countries, the Nethernands, Prague, Barcelonee,... This attracts studentsn even in out

universities.

- English ?

l Like everybody else, no choice after all ?

l Risk of loosing one's own student (perhaps not the best, but...)who could leave us for

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The language issue (2)

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New initiatives related to teaching in English

- Physics, computing (since September 2007)

l Fall term in anglais l Spring term in French

(final work: free choice)

- Others have specific tracks in english (e.g. courses included in ERASMUS MUNDUS programs )

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