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Direct linkHerbaut, Estelle – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2022
Inequalities in access to elite higher education institutions are central in the horizontal dimension of social stratification in higher education. Previous studies have consistently shown large social inequalities in access from French "grandes écoles" (GE), but there is limited empirical evidence on the effect of alternative admission…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Competitive Selection, Institutional Characteristics, Reputation
Daverne-Bailly, Carole; Dutercq, Yves – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2016
The present paper focuses on the preparatory courses for the French "grandes écoles" ("CPGEs"), which are selective higher education programmes that enable "good" students to bypass mass higher education and study under "favourable" conditions. These "CPGEs," originally intended to educate the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Preparation, Selective Admission, Colleges
Convert, Bernard; Gugenheim, Francis – European Journal of Education, 2005
This article examines why numbers have declined in French science universities. It shows that the main causes of this decline are the growth in student numbers between 1985 and 1995 and the changes that this brought about in the educational and social composition of the student population. Since the mid-1990s, increasingly fewer French students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Interests, Declining Enrollment, Social Development
