Around the world, leading universities have established themselves as well-known brands. In France, we haven’t yet entered the race for global higher education.
Aerial vue of the Paris-Saclay campus under construction.
Paris-Saclay
Send a child to a boarding school and they’ll thrive. That’s what many richer families believe when they send their children away to board, and it’s the belief behind a series of programmes set up around…
“Gender, it’s just not my thing,” argued protestors against the ABCD equality programme.
Peter Potrowl, Wikimedia Commons
Simon Massei, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Everybody in France has a view on ABCD de l’égalité. A controversial school programme aimed at combating sexism and gender stereotypes that was introduced in 275 schools last September as an experiment…
We must all learn to play La Marseillaise.
Michel Euler/Pool
The ongoing debate on radicalisation and schools in both the UK and France is missing an important point: we are still not agreed on exactly what religious radicalism is. The fact that the British secretary…
Jean-Claude Thoenig est directeur de recherche émérite au CNRS (Dauphine Recherches en Management), Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)