Farhang Gassemi is a member of the FEDE Committee and is also president of the Federation\u2019s Human Rights Commission. He also heads a private higher education group (Cogefi) and somehow find the time to write books as well. We meet him below.<\/p>\n
Can you tell us how your career started?<\/strong><\/p>\n In the 1980s I wrote a PhD thesis in political science at Panth\u00e9on-Assas University and at the same time studied for a degree in management at Paris Dauphine University. In 1988 I set up my own higher education teaching group: the Cogefi Group.<\/p>\n Tell us about the Group.<\/strong><\/p>\n In the past the Group has contained as many as three schools \u2013 so 700 students; since then I\u2019ve scaled things back. We now have 200 students, 20 or so teachers and around 10 other employees in a single school specialising in management. We offer programmes from bachelor\u2019s to master\u2019s level.<\/p>\n So is it through the Cogefi Group that you became involved with the FEDE?\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n Exactly. The Cogefi Group has been a member of the FEDE since 1992; that makes me an FEDE old-timer. Today, as an elected member of the Committee, I always strive to come up with fresh proposals and to encourage initiatives promoting education in democratic values and citizenship. In short, I remain very active in the life of the Federation.<\/p>\n And yet you still find time to write and publish books?\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n Yes I do. Between 1983 and 2006 I published a series of books on trade unionism (in Iran, Poland and elsewhere in the world). I am also passionate about my work as auditor at the French OPQCM [office for management consultancy accreditation] within the OPQF-ISQ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Farhang Gassemi is a member of the FEDE Committee and is also president of the Federation\u2019s Human Rights Commission. He also heads a private higher education group (Cogefi) and somehow find the time to write books as well. We meet him below. Can you tell us how your career started? In the 1980s I wrote a PhD thesis in political science at Panth\u00e9on-Assas University and at the same time studied for a degree in management at Paris Dauphine University. In 1988 I set up my own higher education teaching group: the Cogefi Group. Tell us about the Group. In the past the Group has contained as many as three schools \u2013 so 700 students; since then I\u2019ve scaled things back. We now have 200 students, 20 or so teachers and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":32390,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[134],"class_list":["post-38698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-paroles-decoles-en-2"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n