ESDES Business School was founded in 1987 as part of the Catholic University of Lyon which has stood for a hundred and thirty years since its foundation in 1875 in Lyon, France. ESDES is state-recognised and its diploma carries the 'visa' of approval and the Master degree of the French Ministry of Education. Its mission is to train the managerial staff that companies require. The date of establishment or date of founding of an institution is the date on which that institution chooses to claim as its starting point. ... 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Private schools, or independent schools, are schools not administered by local, state, or national government, which retain the right to select their student body and are funded in whole or in part by charging their students tuition rather than with public (state) funds. ... City flag City coat of arms Motto: (Arpitan: Forward, forward, Lyon the best) Location Coordinates Time Zone CET (GMT +1) Administration Country Region Rhône-Alpes Department Rhône (69) Subdivisions 9 arrondissements Intercommunality Urban Community of Lyon Mayor Gérard Collomb  (PS) (since 2001) City Statistics Land area¹ 47. ... A Web site (or colloquially, Website) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos and other digital assets that is hosted on a Web server, usually accessible via the Internet or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML, that is almost always accessible via HTTP... 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Catholic University of Lyon (Université Catholique de Lyon) has stood for a hundred and thirty years since its foundation in 1875 in Lyon, France. ... A state is a political association with effective dominion over a geographic area. ... Diploma from Mexico City College, 1948 (in Latin) A diploma (from Greek δίπλωµα diploma) is a certificate or deed issued by an educational institution, such as a university, that testifies that the recipient has successfully completed a particular course of study, or confers an academic degree. ... “M.S.” redirects here. ...

Facts and Figures

• 900 students
• 120 teachers, 31 of whom are permanent
• 2,548 applicants in 2003
• 180 students in each year group
• 75 links with other universities and business schools in 27 countries

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The Five Year Course

In accordance with European and international teaching practices the ESDES course has two stages (a three year period followed by a two-year period) over which students may develop their career paths. The course is built around the key business skills that students will need in their future careers. Look up Career in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

An international culture

Each student takes two foreign languages and does a two-month work placement at the end of the 2nd year in a non-French-speaking country. In the 4th year, every student spends one or two semesters at one of the school's seventy partner universities or business schools. A foreign language is a language not spoken by the indigenous people of a certain place: for example, English is a foreign language in Japan. ... An academic term is a division of an academic year, the time during which a school, college or university holds classes. ...

Research

The GEMO is the research centre at ESDES Business School. The GEMO consists of ESDES faculty with considerable active involvement in research. Research is a human activity based on intellectual investigation and aimed at discovering, interpreting, and revising human knowledge on different aspects of the world. ...

Research at the GEMO has several objectives. The first is to contribute to the development of knowledge of organisational science and business management by carrying out fundamental and applied research. The research work is also intended to serve a certain number of pedagogical needs. The research undertaken by the various members of the GEMO acts as the departure point for new course content taught at the school, both in undergraduate and postgraduate programmes and vocational training courses. Personification of knowledge (Greek Επιστημη, Episteme) in Celsus Library in Ephesos, Turkey. ... Part of a scientific laboratory at the University of Cologne. ... Management (from Old French ménagement the art of conducting, directing, from Latin manu agere to lead by the hand) characterises the process of leading and directing all or part of an organization, often a business, through the deployment and manipulation of resources (human, financial, material, intellectual or intangible). ... Pedagogy is the art or science of teaching. ... In some educational systems, undergraduate education is post-secondary education up to the level of a Bachelors degree. ... Degree ceremony at Cambridge. ... A blacksmith is a traditional trade. ...

See also

• Education in France

Schoolsystem in France The French educational system is highly centralised, organised, and ramified. ...

External links

• ESDES Business School Website
• Actuesdes, The Students Website