Speech for the Ceremony at the School of Public Policy and Management at Tsinghua University.
The Importance of a Global Dimension to Public Policy Education.
It is a great pleasure to be with you today, and especially a great honour to be the guest of SPPM for this anniversary.
I stand before you today as a representative of a French and very international University which has built its expertise and reputation over more than a century by educating policy makers and high civil servants of France.
Sciences Po and SPPM initiated their partnership almost 10 years ago when China was exploring the way for the creation of new university programs such as MPAs to expand its training capacity in the field of public policy.
Thus, I do remember discussions we had at the time with Prof XUE LAN on comparisons of the French and the Chinese developments in this domain. The question was to think how the university could bring more research and a renewed approach to education for public affairs.
Sciences Po and SPPM at Tsinghua University have brought some answers to this difficult question.
I would like to underline a series of possibilities that have since then been explored:
- Creating programs in English and recruiting international faculty and further an international student body. This is what the MPA at Sciences Po has been successfully aimed at.
- Developing a core curriculum that integrates different disciplines of the social sciences and the humanities. Law, History, Sociology, Political Science are part of the curriculum for us.
- Yet, developing an interdisciplinary method for problem analysis and problem solving.
- Introducing the work experience in the class room and the development of applied skills and also the case studies pedagogy.
We have also reinforced the shift from the local and domestic perspective to the global dimension by giving importance to the student international mobility. A lot of this has been achieved trough the creation of double degree programs.
I can see that SPPM has followed the same path by designing a set of very different programs that aim at different publics and different objectives:
- An excellent MPA Program
- An MA in Public Management
- The MID which was quite innovative and is now part of the MDP Global Network funded by the Mc Arthur Foundation. Sciences Po as also joined the network initiated by Columbia University.
- An international Master of Public Administration
- And of course more PhDs.
I would like to say a few words about the SPPM and Sciences Po partnership. Initiated in year 2002, it now integrates a steady student exchange and also a research collaboration. The presence on campus at Tsinghua of several faculty (in the school of Law and also in the Sociology Department and at SPPM) has provided a good opportunity for joint teaching and joint research. Prof Richard Balme, whom I want to salute for his strong commitment to the Sciences Po SPPM partnership has launched the “Sciences Po Tsinghua Initiative for Public Policy”. Several seminars have taken place within this initiative. Recent seminars were held such as “Governance and food safety” and also “Comparative perspective about central-local relations in environmental Governance”.
Obviously international partnerships at SPPM are much broader than the Franco Chinese link. They encompass for example a very productive relationship with the Kennedy School at Harvard University and many links with LSE, SIPA at Columbia, the hertie School in Berlin or the Lee Kwan Yew School at NUS in Singapore.
So what are the challenges that are now upfront?
- Quality of teaching
- Improvement in the research
- Moving more global and not only comparative
- Bridging public and private management and analysis.
- Articulating the university academic based education and research with the State (national and local) internal training and education in public policy.
These are a few challenges we have to answer.
Having better educated citizens and leaders can help!
Thank you
Francis Vérillaud
譯文：
全球視野對公共政策教育的重要性
——在慶祝清華大學(xué)公共管理學(xué)院建院十周年大會上的講話
很高興今天能在這里與各位歡聚一堂，也很榮幸能作為公共管理學(xué)院的嘉賓出席建院十周年慶典活動。
今天，我代表巴黎政治學(xué)院（Science Po）在此演講。這是一所非常國際化的法國大學(xué)，百余年來，它為法國培育出了眾多的決策者和公務(wù)員；也為自己積累了豐富的專業(yè)知識，并贏得了良好的國際聲譽(yù)。
大約在十年前，巴黎政大和公共管理學(xué)院建立了合作關(guān)系。當(dāng)時，中國高校正在積極探索新的教育項(xiàng)目，旨在提高公共政策領(lǐng)域教學(xué)的公共管理碩士項(xiàng)目就是其中之一。
因此，我和薛瀾教授就中法兩國在該領(lǐng)域的發(fā)展進(jìn)行了深入探討，至今我仍對此記憶猶新。當(dāng)時的問題在于，大學(xué)如何在公共事務(wù)的教育方面進(jìn)行更多的研究，并為公共事務(wù)的教育帶來新的研究方法。
我想重點(diǎn)介紹一下在我們所開展的工作：
· 開設(shè)了英文學(xué)位項(xiàng)目，聘請外籍專家，并招收國際學(xué)生。這也是巴黎政大MPA項(xiàng)目已經(jīng)成功實(shí)現(xiàn)的目標(biāo)。
· 開設(shè)了包括社科人文等多學(xué)科在內(nèi)的核心課程。我們的培養(yǎng)方案涵蓋法律、歷史、社會學(xué)和政治學(xué)。
· 已經(jīng)形成了跨學(xué)科的分析及解決問題的方法。
· 推出了一系列新的教學(xué)方法，注重應(yīng)用能力，采取案例研究教學(xué)。
· 此外，我們還通過加強(qiáng)學(xué)生的國際交流活動，力求實(shí)現(xiàn)從地方、國內(nèi)視野到全球視野的轉(zhuǎn)變。而這一轉(zhuǎn)變在很大程度上歸功于雙學(xué)位項(xiàng)目的建立。
我可以清楚地看到，清華公管學(xué)院也選擇了同樣的道路：你們也設(shè)置了一系列針對不同群體、具有不同目標(biāo)的項(xiàng)目。
· 出色的公共管理專業(yè)碩士項(xiàng)目
· 公共管理學(xué)術(shù)型碩士項(xiàng)目
· 極具創(chuàng)新的MID（國際發(fā)展碩士）項(xiàng)目，它是由麥克阿瑟基金會建立的MDP（國際發(fā)展實(shí)踐）全球課堂的一部分。巴黎政大也加入了這一由哥倫比亞大學(xué)發(fā)起的網(wǎng)絡(luò)。
· 國際公共管理碩士項(xiàng)目
· 當(dāng)然還有博士項(xiàng)目。
我還想介紹一下清華公管學(xué)院和巴黎政大之間的合作關(guān)系。自2002年開展合作以來，我們兩院已經(jīng)開展了定期的學(xué)生交換和研究合作。在清華大學(xué)法學(xué)院、社會學(xué)系和公管學(xué)院等院系中，外教的加入為我們提供了聯(lián)合教學(xué)與合作研究的大好機(jī)會。在這里，我要特別向理查德·巴姆教授（Prof Richard Balme）致敬，他為兩院的合作關(guān)系做出了卓越的貢獻(xiàn)，他發(fā)起了“巴黎政大—清華公共政策動議項(xiàng)目（Sciences Po Tsinghua Initiative for Public Policy）”，并已成功舉辦數(shù)次研討會；比如近期舉辦的“治理與食品安全”、“從比較的視角看環(huán)境治理中的中央與地方關(guān)系”。
顯然，公管學(xué)院的國際合作不僅限于中法之間，它還同時與哈佛肯尼迪政府學(xué)院、倫敦政治經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)院、哥倫比亞國際與公共事務(wù)學(xué)院、德國柏林赫爾梯行政學(xué)院以及新加坡國立大學(xué)李光耀公共政策學(xué)院建立了富有成效的合作關(guān)系。
那么，我們當(dāng)前面臨的挑戰(zhàn)是什么呢？
· 提升教學(xué)質(zhì)量
· 提高研究能力
· 更加國際化
· 為公共部門和企業(yè)的管理和分析搭建橋梁
· 在國家（中央和地方）政府的教育培訓(xùn)工作中強(qiáng)調(diào)高校學(xué)術(shù)型教育和研究的重要性
我們還任重道遠(yuǎn)。
培育高素質(zhì)的公民和領(lǐng)導(dǎo)者將幫助我們應(yīng)對挑戰(zhàn)！
謝謝大家！
