Higher education in France : standardization across Europe

There are four objectives for a gradual system reform, which should be complete by 2010 :

• make it easier for students to move around within Europe and increase their employment prospects
• make it easier to understand what the various higher education programmes consist of in order to standardize qualifications across Europe
• introduce a degree of fluidity among higher education programmes and encourage universities, grandes écoles and specialist schools to work together
• make it easier for a student to resume studies or to continue studying when moving around Europe or elsewhere in the world