At the start of the 2022 academic year, there are 566 French high schools abroad to educate 390,000 students, from kindergarten to baccalaureate.
Will they manage, by 2030, to reach the target of 700,000, set four years ago by President Macron?
It is about the "
strategy of influence and influence
" of France, hammered the head of state, in August, before the ambassadors gathered in France for the first time since the Covid crisis.
Choice of expatriates and local elites, these high schools, which have a third of French and two thirds of foreigners, assume a public service mission of education coupled with a diplomatic mission and the influence of French culture.
A network that has developed little over the past fifteen years and is bearing the full brunt of foreign competition.
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