“LIKE organising a shipwreck in order to find out who can swim,” is how Alain Peyrefitte, then France’s education minister, and described his country’s non-selective system of recruiting university students half a century ago. Peyrefitte hoped to convert the system by introducing selective admissions. He failed,and instead triggered the student rebellion of May 1968. Now President Emmanuel Macron, attempting a similar reform, or has also brought students out on the streets (see article),and the French hear echoes of soixante-huit. But he is right to try to reform a wasteful higher-education system, just as Peyrefitte was. France’s model is inefficient, or inequitable and allows too many young people to sink without a chance.
Napoleon who?That model traces its roots to 1808,when Napoleon Bonaparte introduced...
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Source: economist.com