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Education:
Facts
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This page contains
Facts and Figures about France and the French. Some are significant,
other less so....
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| Financing education in France |
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- Student loans in France (Source : Observatoire de la Vie Etudiante, 2016) :
- Business schools : 11% of the students
- Engineering schools : 6.1%
- Medical schools : 4.5%
- Rest of the universities : 4.4%
- Financing education : compared numbers
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$ per student |
% public
financing |
% of GNP |
R&D as
% of GNP |
for corporations |
France |
$ 9,001 |
84,5% |
1,4% |
2,11% |
1,32% |
| USA |
$ 24,230 |
31,6% |
3,1% |
2,77% |
2,01% |
| Germany |
$ 8,534 |
84,7% |
1,1% |
2,64% |
1,85% |
| minimum EU |
$ 4,637 (Poland) |
35,8% (UK) |
0,9% (Italy) |
1,35% (Spain) |
0,6% (Italy) |
| maximum EU |
$ 10,552 (Austria) |
95,7% (Finland) |
1,7% (Denmark) |
3,73% (Finland) |
2,77% (Finland) |
| OECD |
$ 8,970 |
n/a |
1,5% |
2,33% |
1,63%
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(Source : OECD 2010)
| France 2004 |
Number of students |
Euros per year per student |
| Pre-school & Primary school |
6 600 000 |
4,500 |
| High school |
5 500 000 |
7,400 (first 3 years) & 10,170 (4th to 7th) |
| Technical cursus |
380 000 |
n/a |
| University students : |
2 270 000 |
n/a |
| incl. : universities stricto sensu |
1 354 000 |
6,700 |
| incl. : "Grandes écoles" |
190 000 |
n/a |
| incl. : "classes préparatoires" |
73 000 |
13,760 |
| incl. : others (technical) |
653 000 |
n/a |
(Source : Ministry of Education 2004)
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Program in hours per week of the 3 years of "lycée" (the equivalent of "high school") : "seconde" (i.e."sophomore"), "première (i.e. "junior) and "terminale" (i.e. "senior") for the three different cursus : "L" (i.e. "literary"), "ES" (i.e. "economic and social") and "S" (i.e. "science").
Section S is the most prestigious : it is practically required to be admitted in a "classe préparatoire" after "terminale) |
- in France, elementary school "école primaire" (i.e. from Grade 1 to 5) is followed by:
- "college" (from Grade 6 to 9), then :
- "lycee" (from Grade 10 to 12, roughly the equivalent of "high school") : this is what is represented on the opposite chart
- List 1 : economy or art or technology or engineering or scientific methods or health and social or biotech or lab sciences or literature
- List 2 : arts or mathematics or language 3 or latin or greek
- List 3 : art or mathematics or language or law (for L), mathematics or political science or economy (for ES), mathematics or physics-chemistry or biology-geology or computers (for S)
- Source : Le Monde 10/3/2010
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| Hours per week |
"seconde" |
"première" |
'terminale" |
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L |
ES |
S |
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L |
ES |
S |
| French |
4h |
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4h |
4h |
4h |
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| History-geography |
3h |
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4h |
4h |
4h |
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4h |
4h |
2h |
| Languages 1 & 2 |
5h30 |
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4h30 |
4h30 |
4h30 |
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4h |
4h |
4h |
| Mathematics |
4h |
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3h |
4h |
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4h |
6h |
| Physics-chemistry |
3h |
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1h30 |
1h30 |
3h |
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5h |
| Biology-geology |
1h30 |
3h |
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3h30 |
| Sports |
2h |
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2h |
2h |
2h |
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2h |
2h |
2h |
| Ethics-civics |
0h30 |
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0h30 |
0h30 |
0h30 |
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0h30 |
0h30 |
0h30 |
| Economy (read how biaised the program is) |
1h30 |
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5h |
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5h |
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| French literature |
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2h |
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2h |
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| Foreign literature (in foreign language) |
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2h |
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1h30 |
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| Philosophy |
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8h |
4h |
3h |
| TOTAL (for all students of each cursus) |
23h30 |
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20h30 |
24h30 |
25h |
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22h |
23h30 |
26h |
| Individual tutoring |
2h |
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2h |
2h |
2h |
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2h |
2h |
2h |
| Personal multidisciplinary work |
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1h |
1h |
1h |
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| One course on list 1 |
1h30 |
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| One course on list 2 |
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3h |
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| One course on list 3 |
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3 to 5h |
1h30 |
2h |
| Optional : art workshop |
0 to 6h |
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0 to 6h |
0 to 6h |
0 to 6h |
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0 to 6h |
0 to 6h |
0 to 6h |
| TOTAL (except optional) |
27h |
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26h30 |
27h30 |
28h |
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27 to 29h |
27h |
30h |
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