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BUCKINGHAM LAW SCHOOL FORGES LINKS WITH ICES IN FRANCE

Andrew West, Jae Sundaram, François Bouletreau & Dr James Slater

Tuesday 20 October 2009

Buckingham Law School recently visited L'Institut Catholique d'Études Superieurs (ICES) in La Roche sur Yon in north-west France to investigate the opportunity of establishing a coordinated master's programme. This would allow law students from ICES to undertake the LLM at Buckingham.

ICES is an independent university of approximately 800 students studying a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses. Amongst the subjects offered are political science and law. Given its capacity to award state degrees, the independent status of ICES makes it an unusual institution in France where the state dominates the university sector. Buckingham's representatives Jae Sundaram and Dr James Slater were struck by the institutional similarities between ICES and Buckingham and also their shared vision of providing high quality teaching and care for students.

Meetings took place with Andrew West (the point of contact at ICES), Yannick David, head of the Law School, Ita Hermouet, the head of International Relations and François Bouletreau, the Vice-Chancellor. The aim in the medium to long term, subject to ironing out details, is for approximately 5 or so students from ICES to join the Buckingham LLM every year. These meetings proved very fruitful and we hope to welcome students from ICES at Buckingham in 2010.

This initiative is part of Buckingham Law School's ongoing strategy to forge links with French universities who share Buckingham's commitment to excellent academic standards and high quality teaching. Earlier this year Buckingham Business School established an agreement with FACO (Faculté Libre de Droit et d'Économie) in Paris, with the help of Dr James Slater.

Report by the Law School and the Web Team