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The CIEP and educational cooperation
Supporting national education policy and valuing French expertise internationally

General and vocational education

CIEP is the international benchmark public-sector organisation in the education and training sectors. Its primary mission is to promote French expertise in the field.

Its principal activities are in three sectors: basic education, vocational education and training, with a particular focus on technical and higher education.

CIEP is a resource centre in terms of French monitoring and assessment, and plays a facilitatory role in the formation of consortia. It also leads networks of experts and international-level organisations.

The organisation takes part in the design, response to and follow-up of invitations to tender and appeals for international sponsors, in collaboration with French state and private organisations. In this regard, it leads and operates educational engineering projects.

Relying on the support of stakeholders in the French education system, and a network of partner institutions in France and in the countries of the South, CIEP provides training programmes and study visits for the management personnel of foreign education systems. It contributes to thinking on the comparison of education systems, pilots studies, organises international conferences on educational issues in partnership, and runs an annual seminar designed for countries from the South.

It also conducts audit and assessment missions, in conformity with the geographical priorities of French international cooperation.

 

Qualifications recognition

CIEP contributes to promoting international mobility in the field of education, with a specific department under the European ENIC-NARIC agency network: the France ENIC-NARIC Centre. This department is tasked with delivering attested comparisons of foreign qualifications, evaluating such qualifications in terms of the French system.

It provides information on the conduct of professions which are regulated in France, and on international recognition procedures for French qualifications.

It also lends its expertise to bilateral and multilateral work on qualifications recognition.
* European Network Information Center / National Academic Recognition Information Center

Hosting foreign delegations

On the request of embassies, a foreign delegation reception unit designs education and training study visits in France, in conjunction with the Ministries of Education and Foreign and European Affairs. This unit also provides information on the French education system.

  
School education
 
  • Study of curricular reform in Africa.
  • Annual professionalisation seminar for basic education teachers (Africa, Latin America, Asia).
  • School-based projects: piloting, evaluation, initial teacher training (Mali), support for education system pilots (Senegal).
  • Education and social cohesion in Latin America: the education section of the EUROsociAL funded by the European Union.
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    Higher Education
     
  • Quality assurance projects, pedagogic innovation in higher education in the Maghreb, the Machrek, the Middle East and Latin America.
  • Training for senior university management staff (Algeria, Senegal).
  • Seminar on the professionalisation of Masters in Social and Human Sciences in partnership with the Francophone University Agency (AUF).
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    Technical and vocational education
     
  • International cooperation: support for vocational schools in professional training centres, and the introduction of applied professional degrees (Tunisia); training of institution heads and heads of technical education (Chile).
  • Intra-European programmes: Leonardo da Vinci (development of common European frameworks for various professions: management assistants, management of small and medium industries, transport and logistics); development of a pedagogy of professionalisation and internationalisation (IDOL); establishment of European networks (RECOMFOR).
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    The ENIC-NARIC Centre in France
     
  • A department covering the entire country, at the service of the international market.
  • Over 10,000 requests per year for attestations or information, from nearly 100 countries.
  • 77% of requests are for higher education, 14% for school-leaving qualifications and 9% for secondary vocational education.
  • A European ENIC-NARIC network of 54 information agencies, in addition to the MERIC (Mediterranean region countries) agency network.
  • Since 1st September 2009, an attested comparison, based on an analytical grid, (2 eligibility criteria and 8 assessment items), providing a basis for training organisation or employer decision-making.
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    Two priority fields
     

    General education (from basic to higher education)
    Curricular reform, basic education teacher training, monitoring, piloting, quality approaches to secondary education.
    Quality assurance, pedagogic innovation, training of senior managers for higher education.
    Social cohesion: education in prisons, rural areas, disadvantaged areas, in violent contexts.

    Technical and vocational education and training:
    Improving employment prospects for graduates at all levels of vocational training: post-primary, secondary, higher, through:

  • piloting training;
  • content development with professionals;
  • adaptation of teaching methods to suit vocational purposes;
  • training of trainers.
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    Partners
     
  • International organisations: The European Commission, the World Bank and Regional Development Banks, UNESCO, the Council of Europe, the International Francophony Organisation (OIF), the Francophone University Agency (AUF);
  • French institutions: Ministries: (Education, Higher Education and Research; Foreign and European Affairs; Immigration, Integration, National Identity and Social Solidarity; the French Development Agency (AFD); the University Presidents’ Conference (CPU), the Assembly of Directors of University Technology Organisations (ADIUT); the Higher School of National Education (ESEN); the Centre for Qualiἀcation Study and Research (CEREQ); the National Centre for Distance Education (CNED), the Alliance française Foundation, the Secular Mission of France, the National Association for Adult Vocational Training (AFPA).
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