Among foreign students, some deserve to be welcomed in a priority way depending on a ” strategy clearer and better targeted ”says the Court of Auditors in a report Posted on Monday March 10 devoted to the attractiveness, internationally, of French higher education. From 600,000 in 1975, the number of mobility students across the planet increased to 3.5 million in 2005 and then to 6.4 million in 2021. Competition to attract “Talents” East “Increasingly intense between higher education institutions”notes the report which sees in it a “Interministerial public policy stakes”.
This competition turned to the disadvantage of France with regard to UNESCO data: the second host country in 1980 behind the United States, it was fourth in 2017 and was no longer, in 2022, only seventh behind the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, Germany and Russia.
France is distinguished from other countries by “A lack of explicit qualitative objectives” and “Prioritization”estimate the financial magistrates about the “Bienvenue in France” plan, announced at the end of 2018, which had set at 500,000 international students the objective to be achieved in 2027-which is on track, with 430,000 people identified in 2023-2024.
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