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The Transition of a French Distance Learning Institution to a Fee-Based Model: An Ethnographic Study
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Marty, Olivier; Amirault, Ray J. – Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2021
The results of a 3-year fieldwork study within France's National Centre for Distance Education are presented, specifically detailing the impacts on higher education middle management overseeing curricula design for a series of French 3-year degree programs undergoing revision in how students are financially charged for the programs. Following the…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Distance Education, Fees, Higher Education
Current Developments in the French Engineering Education System
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Lemaître, Denis – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2017
The French engineering education system has been established in quite a different way from others in Europe, such as the German and British systems, for instance. Due to both the whole state system and the private initiatives during the industrial revolution, the engineering education system today is composed of a large number (nearly 200) of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Engineering Education, Educational History, Educational Trends
External Reform versus Internal Continuity: Some Perspectives on the Links Between Secondary and Higher Education in Certain Western European Countries.
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Neave, Guy – Higher Education in Europe, 1987
The dynamic of articulation between higher education and secondary education in England and Wales, the Netherlands, France, West Germany, and Sweden is examined from historical and administrative perspectives. (MSE)
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Articulation (Education), Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education
Report of the Committee of the National Council of Education on Economy of Time in Education. Bulletin, 1913, No. 38. Whole Number 548
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United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1913
A preliminary inquiry on "The contemporary judgment as to the culture element in education and the time that should be devoted to the combined school and college course." was authorized by the Council of Education of the National Education Association at the Boston meeting, 1903, and a committee was appointed. The brief recommendation of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Time Factors (Learning), School Schedules