High spots in the programme:

Thursday, July 5th 2012
Introductory round table: Should we use the term “diversity” or “diversities”? Comparative views from industry, the “grandes écoles” and universities.

Workshop 1: By making a parallel between the transition from secondary education to higher education and the transition from higher education to industry, can we see how companies address diversity or diversities? A global or differentiated approach? What lessons are to be taken for the transition from secondary to higher education?

Workshop 2: The distinctive case of overseas public: the particularities of overseas public, do you have to leave your home to be successful? How to address young people from overseas successfully?

Workshop 3: Should a different way of recruiting be used for really opening up to diversity? Company, university and major school cases.

Friday, July 6th 2012

Round table: evolutions in the educational system between theory and practice…

Workshop 1: The need as analysed by the “grandes écoles” and as they could implement it.

Workshop 2: The need that public authorities have identified, for proposing to integrate this transition as a new question concerning the “lift up to success”? If so, what does this mean?

Workshop 3: The need as seen by students on the basis of their experience: young people working together, students from different milieus, handicapped students, female students, etc.