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Training “Accounts”: France

According to a CBC report, the feds are definitely going with a Singapore-style Individual Learning Account (ILAs).  Which, you know, leaves me awfully smug about yesterday’s blog, which by pure coincidence profiled that very system, leaving me looking quite undeservedly prescient.  So, is it even worth going ahead and looking at the French system, as I promised?  Well, yes, because there’s another potential element to the whole learning accounts thing, which is worth delving into and where the French absolutely

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March 15, 2019 1 Comment

France’s New International Education Strategy

On Monday, Campus France (which is roughly equivalent to Canada’s CBIE, if CBIE were an arms-length government agency) published its new Stratégie d’attractivité pour les étudiants internationaux.  It’s an intriguing document for a couple ofreasons so I thought I would talk a bit about it today. It starts off run-of-the-mill, with some gee-whiz stats about the growth of the international student market.  Then, on page 6, we get to the heart of the matter.  The page is titled “La France, 4ieme pays

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November 23, 2018 1 Comment

May ’68 – May ’18?

It’s May First, the day when new student union executives typically take office in Canada.  But it’s also now exactly fifty years since the events of Mai ’68 in France, which was maybe the totemic moment for those who believe in a “student movement”.  In the United States, it was the year the anti-war movement really hit its stride (following the January Tet offensive), and where the image of student power hit its peak at the August 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago.  In France,

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May 1, 2018 1 Comment

Student Protest Roundup

In the world of student protest, the kids from Parkland are justifiably getting all the attention, but there are other interesting manifestations of student protest that are important to note.  A quick round-up of other movements: In the United States, maybe the most interesting story of the last few weeks has been the student occupation of the Administration Building at Howard University, a historically black university in Washington DC.  The ostensible trigger was the revelation that several university employees had been

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April 13, 2018 No Comments

Left Bank Choosiness

To Paris, where a couple of big changes in education policy have led to student demonstrations.  Not particularly large or effective demonstrations (not yet, anyway), but significant nonetheless. The first – and for our purpose less important – set of changes are to the structure of the baccalauréat (which, confusingly for English speakers, refers to secondary school diplomas rather than undergraduate degrees which are called “licence”).  The new Bac rules – and as far as I can tell these only apply to the

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February 15, 2018 No Comments

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