Rendez-vous en France

The next academic year hasn’t even started yet, but some already think about it! And the first is étudiant.gouv.fr, a website that released a very comprehensive and documented article entitled Préparer ma rentrée étudiante (Prepare your next student year) that offers all useful info to help you succeed: administrative procedures, accommodation, health, everyday life, and more. And the ministry of higher education published a guide for high school students entitled, En route vers la vie étudiante (On the way to student life) a general guide providing tips. 

Professional integration of graduates from French advanced schools is doing good! An annual study from CGE (“Conférence des grandes écoles”) reveals that with a net employment rate at 85.8%, the professional insertion of graduates from the 2023 class maintains at high level. Recruitment of graduates is still as fast after graduation: about 85% have been recruited less than two months after the end of their studies, and about 67% had found a job even before passing their degree. Employment conditions are still excellent: 84.2% of graduates concluded a permanent contract and 86.4% have an executive status.

Sport is often opposed to culture, and athletes to artists, like if they belonged to two irreconcilable worlds. At least, the Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games 2024 show that this opposition doesn’t need to be. Here’s a review of all exhibitions in France putting the spotlights on sport with the French ministry of culture.