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Redrawing of French student support would be ‘huge change’

Transferable allowances could bring students clarity and flexibility as they become ‘customers who can make demands’, but some worry about workability and vesting unprecedented powers in landlord-presidents

By Ben Upton

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Students must wait through bleak winter for overhauled support

Germany and France are tinkering with creaking student scholarship and support systems, but activists and experts say a complete refit is required

By Ben Upton

10 September

France urged to expand university places after equality warning

Analysts say generous grants, more housing and better information are needed to fix inequalities driven by parental income

By Ben Upton

20 December

Will Macron’s move against his alma mater make France’s HE system fairer?

France’s president responded to the gilets jaunes movement with a surprise plan to abolish the grande école ENA, reigniting debate about the country’s intensely hierarchical higher education system. John Morgan explores what lies behind the proposal and what it says about the role of exclusive institutions in a populist, anti-elitist age

By John Morgan

19 September

UN ‘concerned’ about inequality in French higher education

Country must address socio-economic and regional inequalities, UN committee advises

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