A WORD FROM THE PRESIDENT OF
IONIS
IONIS Education Group is now three decades old and has reached full adulthood. Since 1980 we have built the largest private higher education group in France. We operate across various but converging fields, with business and engineering schools, bachelor’s and master’s degrees as well as continuing education. We do so as an independent company, without demands for public funding, inventing everyday our own model and path, while respecting the official pedagogical curricula and certification criteria.
Our group belongs to women and men who have shared this adventure with pride and a deliberate sense of dissatisfaction. Our golden rule and asset is both simple to state and difficult to implement. We must strive to re-invent our jobs every day, for we operate in a constantly changing environment. To teach and train means both the transmission of fundamental skills and knowledge, and adapting to the constant evolution of topics, methods and organizations. It means confronting the probable and the uncertain. It’s about going beyond the existing and the status quo when training young students facing a future which is unknown and by definition uncertain.
It is this desire to overcome conformity which has allowed us to instigate and develop some 200 partnerships with other education institutions worldwide, to create through our own will and means half of the schools that constitute IONIS Education Group, and to claim outstanding professional insertion scores for our graduates. Despite the recent economic crisis, whose effects are bound to last for some years, we are confident in our own dynamism, as long as we keep respecting some fundamental rules: adapt when times are good, permanently challenge and evolve our pedagogical methods, which cannot stick to conventional and repetitive beliefs, integrate technological advances and evolutions which frame our students’ culture, and constantly open new perspectives for them.
For us, the only continuity is that of change and self-questioning. It’s only due to such beliefs that we can keep re-inventing our model and remain relevant.