Les IUT à leur création : des laboratoires d’innovations institutionnelles et pédagogiques

Abstract

The years after the Second World War were a period of strong economic growth for France. This development has reinforced the need for companies in terms of middle management. At the same time an increasing number of students came to the universities. At the time, however, faculties had high failure rates. French government authorities had to deal with the convergence of these two phenomena. Among the different solutions, they decided to promote an alternative way. The University Institutes of Technology (IUT) were established. These new institutes built very close relationships with companies. They have also benefited from important innovative teaching methods and institutional innovations too.

Keywords

• technological training
• IUT
• pedagogical innovations
• institutional innovations