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The French educational system
is
highly centralized, organized, and ramified. It
is divided into three different stages:
• primary education (enseignement
primaire);
• secondary education (enseignement
secondaire);
• higher education (enseignement
supérieur).
School system in France
Primary and secondary education are pre-
dominantly public (private schools also exist,
in particular a strong nationwide network of
primary and secondary Catholic education).
Education has both public and private ele-
ments. The Programme for International Stu-
dent Assessment, coordinated by the OECD,
currently ranks France’s education as the
25th best in the world, being neither signific-
antly higher nor lower than the OECD aver-
age. [1]
History
While the French trace the development of
their educational system to Charlemagne, the
modern era of French education begins at
the end of the nineteenth century. Jules
Ferry, a lawyer holding the office of Minister
of Public Instruction in the 1880s, is widely
credited for creating the modern Republican
school (l’école républicaine) by requiring all
children under the age of 15 -- boys and girls
-- to attend. He also made public instruction
free of charge and secular (laïque).
Education in France
Educational
oversight
Ministry of National
Education
Xavier Darcos
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Education in France
1
Jules Ferry
Minister
Deputy Minister
National educa-
tion budget
€64.6 billion (2009)
Primary lan-
guage(s)
French
Central system
Literacy (2003)
• Men
• Women
991%
99%
99%
Enrollment
• Primary
• S