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Hello and welcome to Education today I'm Wu You in Beijing. Joining me in the studio is Farrah.
Ni hao.
Hello. Now let's continue our educational trip around the world. Today we will take you to France.
France has a long history of higher education with more than 80 universities and more than 300 professional colleges and university research centres. Highly developed education system in France to ensure the quality of higher education. Chinese students who apply to enter the first phase to study in France need to pass a French exam through the French embassy. For more about France's new policy towards Chinese students, I've talked with Anthony ??? director of Campus France, a service of the French embassy.
“Bonjour. Are there any new latest beneficiary policies to the Chinese students who might plan to go to study in France?
Well yes, we have decided in this year of the 50th anniversary to reinforce the method of promotion and also we have decided that the visa should be delivered more rapidly which was not the case before, so this is something that is an improvement and also we have in China huge Campus France offices, we have the number one office in the world with 80 people and 15 offices of Campus France all over China.
So give us a reason that Chinese students should choose to go to study in France rather than other countries.
Well there are many reasons ofcourse, one is the excellent quality of higher education and the fact that the degrees have a very good reputation. Then ofcourse the fact that France is a country with a very strong cultural tradition and we know because we have made surveys that this is one of the motivation of the students, Chinese students n France too and I think that France also is a very friendly country and offers a very positive frame for studying and travelling all over Europe too when you are in France”
That’s from Anthony ?? director of Campus France a service of the French Embassy. Well, there has been a programme that helps provide support for international students wishing to study in France right?
That’s right and that has been put in place since 2005, and the programme to help international students that want to study in France was established by Campus France and it’s a procedure called CEF. Now my French is terrible but I’m going to attempt to try to translate this…
OK
It’s Centre pour les Etude en France.
Tres bien!
Merci! So these are available in 31 countries and about 231 higher education establishments are carrying out that test and basically what it is, it’s a way for international students to get into universities in France, you have to apply for this procedure and it usually starts with the creation of a personal electronic application file. So you have to do it online. And they’re saying if you’re living in Algeria, Argentina, China, Russia, Taiwan etc etc you have to do it online. They cooperate with the French embassy so you can kind of keep up with your application procedure and then ask them for advice as well. I was actually comparing it to the, if you remember we were talking about the DAAD…
Oh yeah the DAAD
In Germany right
In the previous episodes we talked about the DAAD so what is the difference between CEF and also DAAD?
Well, I mean these are both European countries trying to get international students to join their universities and they’re doing it in their own way. So the DAAD which has 15 branch offices, 55 information centres across 58 countries, when you go on there it’s kind of the same idea, you’re trying to set up an application and then if you need support or..the thing that got me actually is that for France it’s a requirement for you to have a French language examination if you’re not a French speaker but I believe in Germany it’s not exactly like that. If you remember, one of the questions that you asked me was is language important, well it depends on what you study. So if you want to do it in Germany then you have an option of wither doing it in English or in German but I guess France you have to have French language.
Like I said the Chinese students that apply to enter the first phase study in France they need to pass the French examination.
Right, so yeah different countries require different procedures but I guess the goal at the end is the same, to get international students interested and coming into those countries and then it’s nice to have programmes that help support the application process.
Exactly. And also for the president of France Pays de la Loire Jaques ???? has also paid a visit to the coastal city of Qingdao, Shandong province in China and they together with the city officials from both sides, they have discussed topics on culture, new energy resources and vocational education. Loire covers 32,000 sq kiliometer area in the South Western France and has a population of about 3 million, which is almost similar of the city of Qingdao and they also discussed about the cooperation the city of Nantes which is the capital of Loire and it has the fourth largest economic zone in France, which is Loire. It is a home to many industries including ship building, wine production and agricultural projects and decided to set up a representative office in Qingdao to boost cooperation between the two.
That’s a really interesting, I guess French language is going to help…
Exactly
If you learn French you know to bring it back to China you know. Language is important.
Yes, and that’s it for this episode of Education Today. I’m Wu you in Beijing.
And I’m Farrah.
Thank you for listening.
