Cross-border higher education institutions are considered a main way to fulfill the educational internalization in Mainland China; to some extent they represent the attitude of entering the international market. In this paper, the history, status quo, and future of Chinese-foreign cooperatively-run schools are analyzed and discussed. Cross-border…

Some probable consequences of a current drive in France to expand higher education are explored. The drive is to enroll 90 percent of each age cohort in higher education and to have 80 percent of each cohort obtain undergraduate degrees. The change would drastically alter the traditional French university and its mission. (MSE)

It is argued that a traditional, historically-oriented course in 17th- and 18th-century French civilization continues to be an appropriate and effective approach for undergraduate French study, in preparation for later, more sophisticated cultural analysis. Four course components are discussed: class lectures; literary text selection; textbook…