École Hexagone values: Sovereignty, Quality and Innovation

“DE LA SOUVERAINETÉ” is the name of Title I of the French Constitution of 4 October 1958, which is still in force and defines the fundamental rules of the Fifth French Republic.

Many people have forgotten it or simply ignore it. Yet it is a state of mind that should dominate some of our choices, some of our actions. The health crisis linked to COVID-19 reminded us that digital technology is just as important as physical space, and that in many respects it requires a certain idea of Sovereignty.

Higher education is not an exception. On the contrary, it must be the spearhead of Sovereignty. Make no mistake. This is not about having a restrictive and reductive vision of the world around us. It’s not about cowering and closing in on ourselves. Sovereignty is precisely about understanding the world in which we are evolving together, grasping the major movements, detecting the weak signals and providing a precise and concrete response to the civilisational challenges of tomorrow - environmental, social and economic.

This requires us to be exemplary in the Quality of the teaching given to our students. This includes the choice of consultants who teach and train our students. It also involves the infrastructure in which our students work on a daily basis, where they spend 6 to 10 hours a day. It also means clear operating procedures that everyone can understand, with no red tape to prevent creative minds from expressing themselves freely.

It was with this in mind that École Hexagone, in addition to the regulatory recommendation to have the Qualiopi label, sought ISO 9001 certification. This international standard defines the requirements for implementing a Quality Management System (QMS) for organisations wishing to improve customer satisfaction. The École Hexagone’s campuses have been ISO 9001 certified since 2021. Our students are at the heart of the QMS, as they are invited to complete an anonymous satisfaction survey at the end of each module.

With its Sovereign academic programmes, designed and implemented with Quality in mind, Hexagone School is in a position to bring Innovation to its teaching. Being innovative in higher education means thinking and imagining the curricula of tomorrow. What will be the key themes for businesses? What skills will they need and how can they be trained in anticipation? It also means thinking outside the box, adopting new approaches, such as integrating Business Intelligence as a module in engineering Masters programmes.

Management’s word

**At the root of the École Hexagone, there is a certainty: informatics is more than an accumulation of languages. More than the coexistence of software and hardware. More than the capability to handle information. It is also a question of sovereignty, understanding of the stakes, and freedom in technological choices **

Much more than this, informatics is a science, with it’s own part of humanity. It makes people meet, discuss, exchange and work together. It is not merely a theoratical and abstract theory, but represents a real need from the enteprise and buisness wold. It is in this mindset that we have built our pedagogic project: proposing a curriculum where students are faced with the reality of the enterprise world and approach working as a collective

Courses that care as much about our student’s wellbeing as letting them build a real ability to collaborate with people from all over the world.

This global approach, where our students learn navigate a human and technological ecosystem, naturally doesn’t neglect the need for solid fundamentals in mathematics and algorithmic. Neither does it forget a high-profile teaching staff, coming directly from the buisness world. Neither prestigious technological partners, worldwide actors and french leaders in their domain. All this, so that our students of today, which will soon have expert positions, can handle the environment they will work in.

Management of the École Hexagone