The Problem(s) of the French Universities
(What do you make of the fact that French web sites tend to vanish quickly
after their publication and disappear into nothingness? (see below)
Did I hear 'fickle'?
)

Books
Toute vérité est bonne à dire. Propos d'un homme libre
by Claude Allègre ( from Amazon )
Le grand gâchis. Splendeur et misère de la Science française
by Olivier Postel-Vinay ( from Amazon, presently out of print )
see also: LA RECHERCHE, 352, 60, April 2002; ibid, 353, 66, May 2002.
Charters of Foundation & Early Documents of the Universities of the Coimbra Group
by Jos M. M. Hermans, J. Hermans , and M. Nelissen ( from Amazon )
Université : la grande illusion
by Pierre Jourde ( from Amazon )
La réforme de l'enseignement supérieur et de la recherche, c'est pour quand ?
by Jihad René Albani

Web resources
I should have made copies in time
censorship seems to have now claimed most of these resources
Égalité ... Cartoons from phdcomics.com, March 2010 Part1 Part2
( in English )
Ce qui tue l'Université française
( by Pierre Jourde, Le Monde Diplomatique, September 2003, in French )
L'Université féodale de demain
( by Pierre Jourde, Le Monde Diplomatique, April 2008, in French )
Comment devenir le chercheur du mois
( by Pierre Jourde, Le Monde Diplomatique, December 2008, in French )
ArboreScience Forum (disappeared from the Web. Why?)
( in French )
Blog by Olivier Postel-Vinay (disappeared from the Web. Why?)
( from Arborescience web site, in French )
"Les cuards" by Olivier Postel-Vinay
( in French )
"Die Idee der Universität" von Ekkhard Krippendorff
( in German )
Conférence des Présidents d'Université (CPU)
( see "Publications" )
Université et CNRS
by Jacques Fontanille
De quoi manque la recherche fondamentale en France ? (removed from the Web!)
by Jean-Marc Schlenker
L'Enseignement supérieur en France: Etat des lieus et propositions
( "Rapport Goulard"
(dumped for reasons of French fickleness?))
Académie des Sciences, Rapport 1ère année d'études en science
( by a working group
( dumped for the same reasons as below?)
Programmatic speech by president N. Sarkozy
( in honor of Prof. A. Fert, Jan. 28, 2008 )
(dumped for whatever(!) reasons)
Letter by C. Bréchignac and A. Migus
( one more attempt by CNRS to torpedo university autonomy )
Various documentations in French
Propaganda
(not by prince G.A. Potemkin , in (some sort of) German )
(thankfully they have removed that at some point)
Field reports  Bibliometric data
(from AFAST-DFGWT, in German)
W. Rüegg: Geschichte der Universität in Europa Rezension von R. Mehring (Berlin)
(in German)
Libertés universitaires et liberté académique lecture by O. Beaud in Lyon
Les libertés universitaires à l'abandon ? : Pour une reconnaissance pleine et entière de la liberté académique book by Olivier Beaud (in French)
Note sur la qualité de la science française working paper for QSF, by O. Beaud (in French) (other papers)
Appel à sauver l'université et la recherche Pierre Jourde in le Nouvel Observateur
(in French)
Über die akademische Freiheit der deutschen Universität Rede bei Antritt seines Rektorats von Hermann von Helmholtz (in German)
More links
(education, the Bologna process)

Own contributions
2002 The dilemma is not so much between public and private but rather between collective and individual support
or
It is not the source that is important, it is the recipient

(lecture, Alexander von Humboldt meeting, in English )
2002 Studienreform in der Chemie: Zum Stand der Diskussion an einer französischen Universität
(Bunsen Magazin, in German )
2004 Veut-on une recherche universitaire en France?
(original draft, in French )
2006 Chemistry Education in Bordeaux in the European Context
( presentation, in English )
2007 The Bologna Process: A European Effort to Reform Higher Education in a Convergent Way
( presentation, XIIIth RGJ PhD Congress, Pattaya, April 2007, in English )
2007 Splendeur et misère de la recherche universitaire   alternate site
( lecture, in French, video, 53 minutes)
( presentation, in French)
2008 Université: La Grande Illusion, Anlass für einen Blick über den Zaun
Book review ( in German ),   labor&more, 4/08, pp. 18)
2008 Is academic freedom still a useful and up-to-date concept?
( presentation, The IXth RGJ PhD Congress, Pattaya, April 2008, in English )
2009 The Bologna Process" Ten Years of Evolution in the European Effort to Reform Higher Education in a Convergent Way
( presentation, The Xth RGJ PhD Congress, Pattaya, April 2009, in English )
2010 Doctoral Studies in France: Science and Engineering
( presentation, Promovieren im Europäischen Hochschulraum, Darmstadt, April 2010, in English )


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