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44-449: NEOMA Business School is a French business and management school founded in 2013, following the merger of Reims Management School (founded in 1928) and Rouen Business School (founded in 1871). NEOMA BS offers a wide range of educational programmes covering all fields of management such as bachelor's degrees, Master in Management , MBA and EMBA programs, specialized MSc programs,

88-573: A PhD in management , and various executive education offerings. The school is consistently rated by the Financial Times , The Economist and Challenges as one of the top business schools in continental Europe and one of the leading business schools worldwide. NEOMA is part of the Conférence des Grandes écoles , and is one of the only 1% of business schools in the world holding the Triple accreditation from

132-737: A Coding School to support the creation and development of start-ups. In 2020, it was recently ranked 6th in the French Challenges business schools ranking. and 9th ex-aequo in Le Figaro Business school ranking. In 2022, the Financial Times ranked its Masters in Management program 32nd in the world. It was ranked 30th in the 2021 Financial Times ranking of Masters in Management programs and 19th in The Economist . The NEOMA Alumni network (Rouen + Reims) brings together and connects nearly 72,000 graduates and future graduates. The merger of

176-483: A Foreign Language (NOCFL, Chinese : 国家对外汉语教学领导小组 ) was established in 1987 to "enhance the mutual understanding and friendship between the Chinese people and other peoples of the world, promote economic and trade cooperation as well as scientific, technological and cultural exchanges between them". In 2004, Hanban and the U.S. College Board developed the " AP Chinese Language and Culture Course and Exam" program. As

220-411: A central focus in the school's courses, with role-playing, peer learning and “Learning how to learn” orientation. The school is a forerunner in the use of immersive virtual reality (IVR) in its management courses. The school teaches its students to apply solid managerial skills in a globalised and multicultural professional environment. In addition to providing multicultural exposure on its campuses,

264-494: A defined number of European credits (ECTS). A student accumulates those credits, which are generally transferable between paths. A Bachelors is awarded once 180 ECTS have been obtained (bac + 3); a Masters is awarded once 120 additional credits have been obtained (bac +5). The highly coveted PGE (Grand Ecole Program) ends with the degree of Master's in Management (MiM) A large portfolio of programmes, from bachelor's degrees to Executive Education: Innovative experiential pedagogy has

308-684: A double diploma, which includes a two-year stay abroad (see IPBS ) and relevant work experience consisting of two six-month internships. Sup de Co, the main school, was ranked 8th in France by most rankings in the country. The 18,000 alumni form one of the strongest business networks in France; 3,500 of whom are based outside France. Reims Management School was partner of around 100 international universities worldwide. 49°14′20″N 4°00′11″E  /  49.2389°N 4.0030°E  / 49.2389; 4.0030 Hanban The Centre for Language Education and Cooperation ( Chinese : 中外语言交流合作中心 )

352-620: A former French Foreign Minister , inaugurated the event. That same year, NEOMA Business School opened a Doctorate of Business Administration programme in Shanghai. Over the last 5 years, NEOMA faculty have authored nearly 500 research articles in peer-reviewed publications. NEOMA supports several centers of excellence and research: In 2011, NEOMA created a Startup Lab for students and alumni. Over 225 start-ups have been launched, and over 100 projects are in incubation every year. The Startup Lab consists of 3 incubators, 2 specialised accelerators, and

396-728: A one-year probation period. Organizationally, Hanban sits directly under the Ministry of Education. It has numerous subdivisions, including the following: Academics and journalists have criticized Hanban, particularly the Confucius Institute program that has rapidly grown worldwide since 2004. While inspecting Hanban, Li Changchun , a member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party , stated that: "the construction of Confucius Institutes

440-543: A price tag" and recommended that if universities will not publish their Confucius Institute agreements, the programs should end. On 24 June, the official Chinese news agency Xinhua responded, saying that the claims made by the AAUP and others—that Confucius Institutes "function as an arm of the Chinese state and are pushing political agendas"—actually "expose not so much communist propaganda as their own intolerance of exotic cultures and biased preconceived notions to smear and isolate

484-720: A result of this and other initiatives, approximately 160 U.S. Chinese language teachers have attended the AP Chinese Teacher Summer Institutes. Since 2006, Hanban has been sending volunteer teachers from China to the U.S., and 105 such teachers have taught Chinese in 30 U.S. states. Following a widespread backlash, Hanban changed its name in July 2020 to the Centre for Language Education and Cooperation. According to its website, Hanban's goals include "making Chinese language and culture teaching resources and services available to

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528-621: A significant proportion of their graduates occupy the highest levels of French society. Similar to Ivy League schools in the United States, Oxbridge in the UK, and C9 League in China, graduation from a grande école is considered the prerequisite credential for any top government, administrative and corporate position in France. The degrees are accredited by the Conférence des Grandes Écoles and awarded by

572-522: A single sentence", after 100 professors signed a petition to ban the Confucius Institute. Xu Lin wrote a letter to the university's president and called the university representative in Beijing "with only one line: 'If your school decides to withdraw, I will agree to it.' Her attitude made the other side anxious. The school quickly responded that it will continue to properly manage the Confucius Institute." Other media reports said Xu's comments "brought panic" to

616-473: Is a comprehensive project", maintaining that Hanban did not break any rules by allowing their own subsidiary company to win the contract. According to The Globe and Mail , McMaster University ended its five-year relationship with Hanban after former McMaster Confucius Institute teacher Sonia Zhao quit her job and subsequently complained to the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario that the university

660-551: Is also known as Confucius Institute Headquarters . It was originally called the China National Office for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language, which was established in 1987, and acquired its current name in 2020. Hanban is most notable for the Confucius Institute program. It also sponsors Chinese Bridge , a competition in Chinese proficiency for non-native speakers. Organizationally, Hanban sits directly under

704-542: Is an important channel to glorify Chinese culture, to help Chinese culture spread to the world", which is "part of China's foreign propaganda strategy". In January 2010, the Chinese Ministry of Finance announced that the winning bid to build and maintain the Confucius Institute website was awarded to Hanban-subsidiary company Wuzhou Hanfeng Web Technology Ltd. (Wuzhou Hanfeng Wangluo Keji 五洲汉风网络科技) for CN¥35.2 million ( US$ 5.7 million ). Wuzhou Hanfeng Web Technology Ltd.

748-598: Is an organization under the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China tasked with "providing Chinese language and cultural teaching resources and services worldwide". It is commonly referred to as the Hanban ( Chinese : 汉办 ; pinyin : Hàn bàn ), the colloquial abbreviation for the Office of Chinese Language Council International ( Chinese : 国家汉语国际推广领导小组办公室 ); it

792-538: Is most notable for the Confucius Institute program. Launched in 2004, the program consists of individual institutions, or Confucius Institutes, in regions around the world, including the U.S., South Korea, Germany, Sweden, and Africa. Hanban also sponsors Chinese Bridge , a competition in Chinese proficiency for non-native speakers. As of July 2019 , Hanban has five directors: Ma Jianfei, Zhao Guocheng, Jing Wei, Yu Yunfeng, and Yu Tianqi. Directors of individual Confucius Institutes have four-year tenures, including

836-402: Is not so much by going to court [...] but simply by fiat". The Christian Science Monitor said that the censorship has made more American, European, and Australian academics grow uneasy with Confucius Institutes. It reported that when Ms. Xu met privately with foreign scholars in Shanghai, who asked specifically about the missing pages, "she denied ordering them censored." In December 2014,

880-533: Is one of the leading alumni networks in France, with 72,000 graduates. The Advanced Business School of Rouen was created in 1873, in the Normandy's region. It took the name Rouen Business School at the beginning of the new millennium. The Advanced Business School of Reims was created in 1928, in the Champagne's region. It took the name Reims Management School at the beginning of the new millennium. NEOMA Business School

924-696: The Wall Street Journal described as the "bullying approach to academic freedom". In September, the University of Chicago closed its Confucius Institute, citing incompatibility with Xu's comments regarding the university in a Jiefang Daily article. The Business Spectator commented that the "Xu's hardline behavior highlights one of the biggest problems for Beijing's charm offensive" and that "It still relies on officials like Xu, who still think and act like party ideologues who like to assert their authority and bully people into submission." On 22 July 2014,

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968-528: The BBC interviewed Xu Lin in Beijing. When the interviewer brought up the Braga incident, Xu Lin objected and later asked for large portions of the interview to be deleted. One of the claims she made in the interview is that Taiwan belongs to China , and therefore outsiders have no business interfering. The BBC did not agree to the censorship demand. "Xu Lin not only refused to answer difficult questions, she also politicised

1012-662: The Ministry of National Education (France) . Higher education business degrees in France are organized into three levels thus facilitating international mobility: the Licence / Bachelor's degrees , and the Master's and Doctorat degrees. The Bachelors and the Masters are organized in semesters: 6 for the Bachelors and 4 for the Masters. Those levels of study include various "parcours" or paths based on UE (Unités d'enseignement or Modules), each worth

1056-709: The New York State University . NEOMA Business School, which welcomes each year 300 Chinese students, has many Chinese academic partners, among which Renmin University , the Beijing University of International Business and Economics , Nankai University and Wuhan University . NEOMA BS stated that the institute will act as a platform dedicated to the optimisation of economic relations between China and France by providing solutions and helping local companies develop their business activities in China. Laurent Fabius ,

1100-417: The University of Chicago stated that it had suspended negotiations to renew its Confucius Institute contract because "recently published comments about UChicago in an article about the director-general of Hanban are incompatible with a continued equal partnership." This indirectly referred to an interview Xu had with Jiefang Daily , in which she claimed to have intimidated the university's president "with

1144-724: The CPC". Xu Lin , the Director-General of Hanban and Chief Executive of the Confucius Institute Headquarters, was involved in two international incidents in 2014. In July, she ordered her staff to remove pages referring to Taiwanese academic institutions from the published program for the European Association for Chinese Studies conference in Portugal, claiming the materials were "contrary to Chinese regulations", which

1188-665: The Chinese government". Turk stated that the ten Canadian universities that hosted Confucius Institutes were compromising their integrity by allowing Hanban to have a voice in academic matters such as curriculum and topics of class discussion, which constitutes a "fundamental violation of academic freedom". In June 2014, the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) called on the almost 100 American universities that hosted Confucius Institutes to renegotiate their contracts with Hanban. The AAUP's Report on Academic Freedom stated that "Confucius Institutes function as an arm of

1232-465: The Chinese state and are allowed to ignore academic freedom." A 21 June 2014 editorial in The Washington Post listed concerns regarding Confucius Institutes, including the AAUP advising universities to cut Hanban ties, alleged violations of freedom of speech and human rights , and the secrecy of undisclosed contracts between schools and Hanban. It concluded that "academic freedom cannot have

1276-542: The Conference Abstracts and ordered her entourage from the Confucius Institute Headquarters to remove all conference materials and take them to the apartment of a local Confucius Institute employee. The remaining 300 participants who arrived for conference registration on 23 July did not receive the printed abstracts or programs but only a brief summarized schedule. After last-minute negotiations between Xu Lin and conference organizers to ensure conference members received

1320-402: The Confucius Institute, was another major sponsor of the conference, and Sun Lam, director of the University of Minho Confucius Institute was a co-organizer of the conference. The CCSP international conference funding application stated, "The conference is regulated by the laws and decrees of both China and the host country, and will not carry out any activities which are deemed to be adverse to

1364-534: The Confucius Institutes and reinforced the idea that they are led by dogmatists," commented Gary Rawnsley, professor of Public Diplomacy at Aberystwyth University , Wales. The Wall Street Journal reported on Xu's BBC interview, noting that "Critics have argued that China's Confucius Institutes pose a threat to academic freedom in the United States, Canada, Europe and beyond. Now the Beijing official in charge of them has confirmed it." On 25 September 2014,

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1408-428: The Ministry of Education. It has numerous subdivisions, including three separate Confucius Institute divisions in charge of Asian and African, American and Oceanian, and European regions. In 2014, The Economist labeled Hanban a "government entity". Hanban has been criticized for its Confucius Institute program and for the actions of former Director General Xu Lin . The China National Office for Teaching Chinese as

1452-725: The book exhibition and library donation organized by the Taiwan National Central Library , and the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange. The director of the National Central Library stated that EACS officials and members had spoken out against Xu during the opening ceremony. Marshall Sahlins explained that the EACS censorship highlighted Hanban's seriousness in enforcing its contractual provisions "the way they do in China which

1496-417: The conference members. EACS president Roger Greatrex subsequently issued a report on the page deletions and an official letter of protest that concluded, "Such interference in the internal organization of the international conference of an independent and democratically organized non-profitable academic organization is totally unacceptable." The Confucius China Studies Program (CCSP), which is administered by

1540-465: The curriculums include periods of cultural immersion through student exchanges at its 335 partner schools and in companies abroad. NEOMA Business School, after being specifically selected by the Hanban , launched in 2014 the first Confucius Institute for Business of France, and the seventh in the world. Other Confucius Institutes for Business are notably present in the London School of Economics and

1584-541: The evening before the start of the European Association of Chinese Studies (EACS) conference in Braga , Portugal, Xu Lin removed four pages from the conference program and one page from the abstracts, which referred to Taiwan's Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange , a major sponsor of the conference for the past 20 years. The EACS subsequently reprinted the deleted materials to distribute to

1628-490: The program, a compromise was made to allow the removal of one abstract page that mentioned the CCSP support of the conference. On the morning of 24 July, the remaining 300 conference participants received their materials, which were now missing four printed pages: the frontispiece mentioning the CCSP sponsorship in the conference abstract and three pages from the conference program. These expurgated pages contained information regarding

1672-416: The social order." Dr. Lam submitted a draft copy of the program to the CCSP, who subsequently approved the materials. Conference registration began on 22 July 2014, and about 100 participants received complete copies of the abstracts and program, which comprised 89 pages plus a cover and front pages. However, after Xu Lin arrived that evening, she proclaimed that mention of the CCSP sponsorship be removed from

1716-493: The three international accreditation organisations, EQUIS , AACSB and AMBA. Presided over by Michel-Edouard Leclerc , the school has the status of a Consular Higher Education Institution (EESC). The school dean is Delphine Manceau . Its student body is made up of 9,000 students, 25% of whom come from international backgrounds. The students study on the three different campuses in Reims , Rouen and Paris . Its merged Alumni Network

1760-582: The two former schools has helped to develop the fourth most active alumni network among French business schools. Reims Management School The school merged with Rouen Business School in 2013 to form NEOMA Business School . In 2012, the Financial Times ranked the MBA programme as 22 in Europe, and the Sup de Co programme as 19th in Europe. CESEM (Centre d'Etudes Supérieures Européennes de Management) delivers

1804-853: The world", "meeting the demands of overseas Chinese learners", and "contributing to the formation of a world of cultural diversity and harmony". Hanban aims to cultivate knowledge and interest in the Chinese language and culture around the world, especially in people who are not native speakers of Chinese. Hanban has worked "closely with overseas organizations to develop Chinese language courses in their respective countries". Hanban's primary functions include making "policies and development plans for promoting Chinese language internationally", supporting "Chinese language programs at educational institutions of various types and levels in other countries", and drafting "international Chinese teaching standards and develop and promote Chinese language teaching materials". Hanban

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1848-853: Was "giving legitimization to discrimination". Under her job contract, Zhao was forced to hide her belief in Falun Gong , a spiritual movement that the Chinese government deems "dangerous". Zhao stated that she was "trained in Beijing to dodge sensitive topics in class". In December 2013, the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) passed a resolution, "That all universities and colleges in Canada which currently host Confucius Institutes on their campuses cease doing so, and universities and colleges currently contemplating such arrangements pursue them no further." CAUT executive director James Turk described Confucius Institutes as "essentially political arms of

1892-563: Was created at the start of the 2013 school year following the merger of the two middle schools. This merger was carried out by the regional Reims and Rouen Chambers of Commerce and Industry. NEOMA Business School is a grande école , a French institution of higher education that is separate from, but parallel and often connected to, the main framework of the French public university system . Grandes écoles are elite academic institutions that admit students through an extremely competitive process, and

1936-438: Was registered to Wáng Yǒnglì (王永利), Deputy Director-General of Hanban and Deputy Chief Executive of Confucius Institute Headquarters. This connection led news media and social media commentators to criticize Hanban for corruption and a lack of transparency . In response, Hanban Director-General Xià Jiànhuī (夏建辉) said that "the website will eventually be made into a learning portal that will be promoted globally" and that "this

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