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(Entry by Carlo Salerno) PROPHE Summary: This past spring a Government-commissioned report on the future of French private higher education was released. Its main finding is that France's private higher education sector needs greater government support if it is to better serve the country's public services. The report makes a number of specific recommendations including establishing partnerships between the State and the private grandes ecoles and developing a new higher education and research foundation. It also proposes creating a new legal status for schools not yet under contract with the state but that already do considerable public service work so that they may qualify for public funding. A striking additional feature involves public loan options for students in the private sector. For the full story (shown with permission), see the Times Higher
Education Supplement, May 20, 2005. "Report Calls for State
Support for France's Private Colleges," by Jane Marshall. More
detailed information can be found at: PROPHE Observation: The establishment of formal relationships between states and their
private higher education providers in Europe is not new but has increased
in recent years as more centrally-planned systems look for new ways
to increase efficiency without further public investment. Given that
private higher education has long been an important, though not dominant,
facet of the French system the report's findings are not necessarily
surprising. They do, however, capture the shifting attitude among social
welfare states that private providers can be used to successfully achieve
broader government objectives.
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