Education in Paris

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In the early 9th century, the emperor

Notre-Dame cathedral school had many famous teachers, and the controversial teachings of some of these led to the creation of a separate Left-Bank Sainte-Genevieve University that would become the centre of Paris's scholastic Latin Quarter best represented by the Sorbonne
university.

Twelve centuries later, education in Paris and the Paris region (Île-de-France région) employs approximately 330,000 people, 170,000 of whom are teachers and professors teaching approximately 2.9 million children and students in around 9,000 primary, secondary, and higher education schools and institutions.[1]

Primary and secondary education

Paris is home to several of France's most prestigious high-schools such as

École Active Bilingue Jeannine Manuel
.

The

Japanese international school
are located in nearby suburbs.

Higher-education

In the academic year 2004–2005, the Paris Region's 17 public universities, with its 359,749 registered students,

grandes écoles and scores of university-independent private and public schools have an additional 240,778 registered students, that, together with the university population, creates a grand total of 600,527 students in higher education that year.[2]

Universities

Sorbonne Chapel

The cathedral of

Notre-Dame was the first centre of higher-education before the creation of the University of Paris, Le Sorbonne, which was founded in about 1150.[3] The universitas was chartered by King Philip Augustus
in 1200, as a corporation granting teachers (and their students) the right to rule themselves independently from crown law and taxes. At the time, many classes were held in open air. Non-Parisian students and teachers would stay in hostels, or "colleges", created for the boursiers coming from afar.

Already famous by the 13th century, the University of Paris had students from all of Europe. Paris's

Sorbonne Nouvelle inherited the arts and humanities.[5]

In 1991, four more universities were created in the suburbs of Paris, reaching a total of seventeen public universities for the Paris (Île-de-France) région. These new universities were given names (based on the name of the suburb in which they are located) and not numbers like the previous thirteen:

University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines
.

Students also have the opportunity to study abroad in North America via the MICEFA[6] program.

Grandes écoles

The Paris region hosts France's highest concentration of the prestigious

École Normale Supérieure has remained on rue d'Ulm in the 5th arrondissement.[7]

The Paris area hosts 55 grandes écoles, including a high number of engineering schools, some of them led by the prestigious Paris Institute of Technology (

Sciences-Po is still located in Paris's left bank 7th arrondissement. The Parisian school of journalism CELSA département of the Paris-Sorbonne University is located in Neuilly-sur-Seine.[8]

Sainte-Geneviève Library

The grandes écoles system is supported by a number of preparatory schools that offer courses of two to three years' duration called

Versailles, near Paris. Student selection is based on school grades and teacher remarks. Prépas are known to be very demanding in terms of work load and psychological stress.[10]

Private foundations

The Pasteur Institute (French: Institut Pasteur) is a French non-profit private foundation dedicated to the study of biology, micro-organisms, diseases, and vaccines.

Miscellaneous education

The École de langue japonaise de Paris (パリ日本語補習校 Pari Nihongo Hoshūkō), a

supplementary Japanese education programme, is held at the École Maternelle et Primaire Saint Francois d'Eylau in the 16th arrondissement of Paris.[11][12] The school has its offices at the Association Amicale des Ressortissants Japonais en France (AARJF) in the 8th arrondissement.[13]

References

  1. ^ La Préfecture de la Région d'Île-de-France. "L'enseignement" (in French). Archived from the original on 24 August 2007. Retrieved 9 October 2007.
  2. ^
    Regional Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Paris –Île-de-France (2006). "Paris Region : key figures 2006" (PDF). Archived from the original
    (PDF) on 22 July 2006. Retrieved 4 July 2006.
  3. ^ Tellier 2009, p. 283.
  4. ^ Compayré 2004, p. 205.
  5. ^ "Paris-Sorbonne University". MICEFA. Retrieved 2 July 2013.
  6. ^ http://micefa.org/
  7. École Normale Supérieure. Archived from the original
    on 7 June 2013. Retrieved 18 June 2013.
  8. ^ "Accès" (in French). Celsa.fr. Retrieved 16 June 2013.
  9. ^ "L'étudiant League Table 2008". Letudiant.fr. Retrieved 5 May 2009.
  10. ^ Power, Angie (17 November 2003). "France's educational elite". The Guardian. Retrieved 16 June 2013.
  11. ^ "欧州の補習授業校一覧(平成25年4月15日現在)" (Archive). Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT). Retrieved on May 10, 2014. "パリ ECOLE DE LANGUE JAPONAISE DE PARIS Ecole Maternelle et Primaire Saint Francois d'Eylau 20 av. Bugeaud 75116 Paris,France"
  12. ^ "パリ日本語補習校 概要." École de langue japonaise de Paris. Retrieved on April 2, 2015. "教 室 水曜・土曜クラスともに Ecole Saint Francois教室 Ecole Maternelle et Primaire Saint Francois 住所:20 Av. Bugeaud 75116 Paris メトロ:Victor HUGO(2号線) 徒歩5分 / BOISSIERE(6号線) 徒歩9分" - PDF version (Archive)
  13. ^ "日本人会「パリ日本語補習校」2013~14年度申込書" (Archive). École de langue japonaise de Paris. Retrieved on 10 May 2014. "AARJF 19, rue de Chaillot 75116 Paris"

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