Abstract
Indo-French cooperation has existed for several decades, and has flourished in the recent period, with a number of flagship programmes and cross-border schemes in science, technology and management. Virtual universities refer to both conventional campus-based (hybrid and brick-and-mortar) universities offering online courses, and purely virtual universities with all their activities delivered online via the Internet. A virtual university is involved as a direct provider of learning opportunities and uses the Internet to deliver its programmes and courses while receiving tuition support. We propose in this ultimate chapter an innovative architecture for an Indo-French knowledge management system with the objective to secure a competitive advantage in the knowledge economy.
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Notes
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The full issue of Biz@India (2013) following this presidential visit was published online.
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Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are autonomous public institutes of higher education, similar to Ivy League institutions in the USA, or top Grandes Ecoles in France. With more than 300,000 applications each year, admission rate is around 2 %. They are governed by the Institutes of Technology Act, 1961 which has declared them as ‘institutions of national importance’, and has defined their powers, duties, framework for governance. Originally, there were seven institutes located at Chennai, Delhi, Guwahati, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Mumbai and Roorkee. Nine others were created in 2008 at Bhubaneswar, Gandhinagar, Hyderabad, Indore, Jodhpur, Mandi, Patna, Ropar and Varanasi.
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French HEIs include elite institutions, such as Ecole Polytechnique, Ecole Centrale, Ecole des Mines, Supelec, ENS Cachan, UTT, INSA Lyon, Universities of Paris sud, Grenoble, Lyon, and Paris-Dauphine.
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France 5 was called la chaîne du savoir, de la formation et de l’emploi (the channel of knowledge, training and employment).
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Goff and Shaffer (ibid., p. 106) argue that these two types of decision have three important things in common: they are long-term commitments, they both require an investment of time and money, and they determine future life satisfaction.
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In fact, there are many more variants to the SMART acronym (Haughey 2015).
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See for instance sup-numerique.gouv.fr (2016) for France or the Indian firm ETPL Ltd (2016).
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Laureate Online Education B.V. is a subsidiary of Laureate Education, Inc., arguably the biggest higher education provider in the world that provides undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral degree programmes to traditional and adult students worldwide. Laureate International Universities is a global network and an emanation of Laureate Education Inc with 80 campus-based and online universities offering undergraduate and graduate degree programmes to over 1 million students around the world.
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Pilkington, M. (2017). An Indo-French Virtual University Project. In: Indo-French Educational Partnerships. Palgrave Pivot, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-50082-3_5
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