Interaction with France Professors : Brief talk on Higher education system

 Today we had a surprise visit by Prof. Saeed Paivandi and Prof. Fantanini Christine from University of Lorraine , France.  They visited to Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University.  They had small visit to our  department of English for brief talk on higher education system. Prof. Kishor Joshi from department of Economics has introduced the guest.


   They have talked about the France culture , emerging of various streams and smaller  educational universities to set a particular university as world class  university, effect of  economical crises  and class conflict upon education system, gender differences in various education streams. It was very fruitful and interesting  session. They were very curious to interact with students. Some students asked few questions to them related to their culture and effect of feminine study over their culture.


 Prof. Saeed don't have the citizenship of France. He came to France to learn french  language. He lived their as foreigner.He closely look over the culture of France. He talked about the violences in some French movements and according to him violence can never give a proper solution to any problems.


    Prof. Christine 's thoughts were contrasting from Prof. Saeed. According to her  violence is very normal in these movements. She talked about economical crises among the various classes. Elite people became more rich, poor became more poorer and in between them middle class faces more economical crises. This things also affects on education system.
In 1980 there were 6% working class and 35 % elite people  were studying. In 2015 it increased with population 35 % working class and 90% elite class people were studying in universities.




   They have also talked about Feminist in education system. In the education system of France  there are 55% women studying  in various streams of education system. So there is equal ratio of male and female in education system. Through this conversation over feminism in education we came to know about the ratio of women in various fields like humanity 80% , engineering 60% ,  medicine 75%, surgery 17%, law 15% etc. This ratio is quite similar to India. In India more women are in stream of humanities rather than other streams like engineering, law , surgery etc. In medicine more women can be seen as nurse but few as surgeon. All these high designations have been  occupied by males. Men are  gaining high salary compare to women.

 So through this conversation we came to know that situations are parallel on the global level. The situations and interests of french women in various education streams are quite similar as India.




 This type of interactions provide  us authenticity about particular culture. It was very knowledgeable and intresting session. Both the professors freely talked about France culture and education system.
 I would like to thank Prof. Kishor Joshi of economics department and Prof. Dilip Barad for organising this surprise visit.