Egalitarian France measures success
France has for the first time published university league tables that measure student success and assess how effective individual universities are in overcoming student's social disadvantages. The...
France has for the first time published university league tables that measure student success and assess how effective individual universities are in overcoming student's social disadvantages. The...
Brussels, 13 October 2006 French universities want to play an active role in the creation of the European Research and Higher Education Area and are doing all that they can to support this process,...
Brussels, 20 Dec 2004 France will increase its funding for nanosciences and nanotechnologies from 30 million to 70 million euro over three years, the country's Research Minister, François d'Aubert,...
PARIS A masters in international business management conducted entirely on the internet has been set up by the University of Picardy Jules-Verne in Amiens, France. The course in management of...
Brussels, 05 Mar 2004 A French survey has found that the difficulty of combining career and family roles hampers the international mobility of female researchers. Although the move to postdoc is as...
Brussels, 05 Mar 2004 A French survey has found that the difficulty of combining career and family roles hampers the international mobility of female researchers. Although the move to postdoc is as...
Halfway into its life, the Universite de Tous les Savoirs, France's millennium celebration of learning and knowledge, has been hailed as a huge success. So far, more than 70,000 members of the public...
Brussels, 03 Jan 2003 The French Ministry for Research and New Technologies in association with ANVAR (Agence nationale de valorisation de la recherche) and the European Social Fund has launched the...
Brussels, 04 Feb 2003 The biological research centre of Szeged is hosting an international symposium entitled 'neurobiology of ageing: molecular approaches' from 7 to 8 March in Szeged, Hungary. The...
Brussels, 01 Jun 2004 The European Commission is providing 8.8 million euro under the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) for a new Network of Excellence, called Nano2Life, which will develop the first...
The 29 postgraduate students on Form-Ami, an innovative course in advanced multimedia and information technology, are truly at the cutting edge. As pioneers in the European Commission's initiative to...
The collapse of eastern Europe has shown state-run industry to be a failure, is it the same for state-run universities? THES looks at the competition With more than 200,000 students in fee-paying...
France's university presidents have warned the government that its decision to hold consultations on the future of higher education must not lead to the shelving of urgent problems. Two issues which...
European students are border-hopping to get the best value in courses and literature. Sylvia Simmons reports. For French, German and Swiss students in the Rhine valley, one simple, user-friendly...
FRENCH education minister Claude Allegre has said that the poorest students today are receiving less support to go through university than did their predecessors a quarter of a century ago. He...