There will therefore be a benefit for students

Paris Dauphine has decided to increase the fees of 20 of its masters, moving from 231 euros to 4,000 euros to the maximum - with an exemption for Fellows and a degressive scale for other students ("les Echos" February 9). A decision greeted cautiously by the Minister of advanced education, Valérie Pécresse, but strongly criticized by the Unef, main Student Union. The pattern of Dauphine, Laurent Batsch, explained and refers to its projects.

Expect you to such a hubbub after the adoption of your project of increase in tuition fees

Tuition fees are a sensitive issue. But each includes require financing needs to use all available resources. In addition, "return on investment" to some degree, in terms of wages and employment, is that it legitimizes a financial participation of the students. Note also that the decision of the Board of Directors commits Dauphine, this is a local decision. The autonomy of the universities, it is also the freedom to act on certain subjects.

What practical benefit your students can expect from this additional manna

We will offer scholarships and improve the Organization of our curriculum, so that every student master 1 can access a master 2 attractive and in relation to its preferences - this is not always the case today. Finally, we will strengthen the pedagogical supervision and recruit teachers. There will therefore be a benefit for students.

Why announce this project just after the controversy over schools fellows

He had to do it now, because our students are download their registration. They must know where they are going to put the feet the next year.

With this measure, Dauphine won't reinforce his image of "rich CAF

But we are not the FCC of the 16earrondissement! We recruit our students according to their level at the national level and, increasingly, internationally. And we are three to four times less expensive than the great schools of management.

Another record of the time: the transfer of certain teachings of Dauphine to the defence. Under what conditions will be this transfer

The issue of implantation to the defence, it is to contribute to the development of this great business district and closer to large international groups. Our current facilities are too cramped. We have 600 students on the pole Leonardo da Vinci, to the defence. The next year, we want to climb to 1,500 students and install our team of teachers in finance.

The alliance between the universities of Paris projects are multiplying. Are you part of the large manoeuvres

Good idea, in my view, is that of a "University of 15,000 students", multidisciplinary, with a strong anchor in the masters and research. The international model would also exceed the traditional cleavage University-schools. And it stands out students conglomerates of 100,000 or more which are emerging here and there.

Longer term, how do you see the future of Dauphine

Our priority is the international development. It is place Dauphine to the best universities worldwide to make an institution capable of inclusion in 20 first-of-the classification of Shanghai. From this point of view, the Equis, just get, is a key lever.

You have suspended your prestigious master 203"this year, because of the crisis, finance. Will reopen the next re-entry

Yes, but in a more ambitious configuration. It will be now entirely taught in English and open to students of bachelor level. This will be a program in two years, on the international model of the "masters of science".

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