Law on Higher Education and Research (France)

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The Law on Higher Education and Research of July 22, 2013 replaced laws promulgated by the previous French government in 2006 and 2007 (for example the law on Liberties and Responsibilities of Universities) regarding the organization and autonomy of universities and other research and higher education institutions in France.

During the 2012 French presidential election, François Hollande promised to review and improve conditions for undergraduate and graduate education and research in French universities. Shortly after the election, Geneviève Fioraso, minister for higher education and research, launched an assessment process led by an independent committee in dialogue with the university community. The committee presented a report on December 17, 2012 containing 135 recommendations. Some of the proposals received criticism, but these formed the basis for the new law presented to the National Assembly (France) in March 2013, and adopted into law July 22, 2013. Other than a dispute over the introduction of English into university courses there was little public debate.

## Contents of the Law[edit]

The first title of the new law concerned general principles such as teaching in the French language,[law 1] or the use of Free software. Ministers in charge of Higher Education and Research would be responsible for 5-year strategic national plans.

The law describes national limits on general professional degrees and minimal percentages on professional graduates and technological graduates. Students have a right to access more selective university programs if they have sufficiently high grades on their baccalauréat (high school graduation exam).

### Geographic coordination[edit]

The law provides that “coordination is organized by only one establishment of higher education for a given territory [academic or interacademic]".

Every institution of higher education needed to plan for the following to establish this coordination:

* merging with one or more other institutions
* participating in an association of universities and higher education institutions,
* associating in another form of public scientific, cultural or professional establishment (EPSCP).[law 2]

The Association of universities and higher education institutions (communauté d’universités et établissements) is a new type of EPSCP created by this law; at the same time, the pôles de recherche et d'enseignement supérieur (PRES), the réseaux thématiques de recherche avancée (RTRA) and the établissements publics de coopération scientifique (EPCS), created by the 2006 law on research coordination are discontinued.[law 3]

Now there are Communities of universities and institutions (COMUE).

## See also[edit]

* Pôle de recherche et d'enseignement supérieur, PRES (2007−2013)
* Communities of universities and institutions, Communautés d’Universités et Établissements (COMUE) (est. 2013)

## References[edit]

1. ^ Articles L121-3 of the code de l’Éducation, modified by article 2 of the law on higher education and research
2. ^ Articles L718-2 and L718-3 of the code de l’Éducation, created by article 62 of the law on higher education and research
3. ^ Article 66 of the law on higher education and research

Text of the law

* "Dossier législatif - Projet de loi relatif à l'enseignement supérieur et à la recherche (ESRJ1304228L)".

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Public universities and higher education institutes in France

Public Universities in France,
by Academy|

Aix-Marseille
Aix-Marseille
Avignon
Amiens
Verne
Besançon
Franche-Comté
Bordeaux
Bordeaux 1
Segalen
Montaigne
Montesquieu
Pau/Adour
Caen
Caen
Clermont-Ferrand
Auvergne
Pascal
Corsica
Paoli
Créteil
Paris 8
Paris 12
Paris 13
Marne la Vallée
Dijon
Burgundy
French Guiana
French West Indies/Guiana
French Polynesia
French Polynesia
Grenoble
Savoie
Fourier
Mendès-France
Stendhal
Lille
Lille
Artois
Littoral
Valenciennes/Hainault-Cambrésis
Limoges
Limoges
Lyon
Bernard
Lumière
Moulin
Monnet
Montpellier
Montpellier 1
Montpellier 2
Valéry
Unîmes
Perpignan
Nancy/Metz
Verlaine
Poincaré
Nancy 2
Nantes
Angers
Maine
Nantes
Nice
Nice
South
Orleans/Tours
Orléans
Rabelais
New Caledonia
New Caledonia
Paris
Panthéon-Sorbonne
Panthéon-Assas
New Sorbonne
Sorbonne
Descartes
Diderot
Poitiers
Poitiers
La Rochelle
Reims
Reims
Rennes
Western Brittany
Southern Brittany
Rennes 1
Upper Brittany
Réunion
Réunion
Rouen
Le Havre
Rouen
Strasbourg
Strasbourg
Upper Alsace
Toulouse
Toulouse 1
Le Mirail
Sabatier
Champollion
Versailles
Cergy-Pontoise
Versailles
Évry
Nanterre
Paris-Sud

Autonomous public higher
education institutes|

* École centrale de Lille
* Lyon
* Nantes
* Marseille
* École nationale supérieure des arts et industries textiles

* Institut national des sciences appliquées
* de Lyon
* Rennes
* Toulouse
* Rouen
* Strasbourg
* Institut supérieur de mécanique de Paris

Universités de technologie
Compiègne
Belfort-Montbéliard
Troyes

Écoles normales supérieures|

* Paris
* Cachan
* Lyon
* École Normale Supérieure Lettres et Sciences Humaines

Écoles françaises à l'étranger|

* Casa de Velázquez
* École française d'archéologie d'Athènes
* École française d'Extrême-Orient
* École française de Rome
* Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale

Grands établissements|

* Collège de France
* Conservatoire national des arts et métiers
* École centrale Paris
* École des hautes études en sciences sociales
* École Nationale des Chartes
* Arts et Métiers ParisTech
* École nationale supérieure des sciences de l'information et des bibliothèques
* École pratique des hautes études
* Sciences Po
* Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
* Institut national d'histoire de l'art
* Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales
* Institut polytechnique de Grenoble
* Muséum national d'histoire naturelle
* Observatoire de Paris
* Palais de la Découverte
* Université Paris-Dauphine

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French scientific research facilities

University-grade institutes|

* Universities
* Autonomous institutes
* Écoles normales supérieures
* Grands établissements

Public research institutes|

* IRSTEA (agriculture)
* CNRS (fundamental sciences)
* INED (demography)
* INRA (agronomy)
* IFSTTAR (transports and civil engineering)
* INRIA (computer science and control)
* INSERM (medicine)
* IRD (development)

Public industry|

* BRGM (geoscience)
* CEA (nuclear industry and renewables)
* IFREMER (maritime applications)
* ONERA (aerospace)

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