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By Ayaan Khan
Languages spoken in France
 French
 French sign languages
 Spanish
 German
 Italian
 Catalan
 Flemish
 Dutch
France is the largest
country in Western
Europe and the thirdlargest in Europe as a
whole.
 In 2002, about 83% to 88% of
the population were
nominally Roman Catholic,
 About 2% were Protestant
 about 7% to 8%Jews
 About 4% subscribed to no
religion at all
THE CAPITAL
OF FRANCE IS
“PARIS”
The name "France"
comes from the
Latin Francia, which
means "country of
the Franks".
Participation In Education
Male
Female
Total
Primary (6 99%
to 11 years)
99%
98%
Secondary(
11 to 18
years)
99%
98%
98%
EDUCATION
Schooling is free and compulsory from
age 6 to 16, preschool is also free, but not
compulsory, from 2 to 6.
Nearly all children enroll
because the French
believe that preschools
are important for
developing the
communication skills for
young children
School Year Starts In September
Public primary school day
starts at 8:30 or 9am, has
two-hour lunch break
around noon, and then lasts
until 4:30 or 5pm.
Children go to school on Monday, Tuesday,
Thursday, and Friday, and have Wednesday,
Saturday , and Sunday off.

College similar to junior
high school, last four
years. School goes from 8
a.m. to 5 p.m. from
Monday through Friday,
with a half day on
Wednesday.
Secondary education, lasting
seven years, is offered by
colleges and lycées (a French
public secondary school that
prepares students for the
university)

After college, students
take an exam called the
brevet. Students then
have more than one
option they can follow:
continue on to high
school ( known as
lycées) or go to a trade
school to gain
experience in a specific
trade.

French lycées involve a
full week of classes and
a large amount of
homework, all French
student are required to
study English.


After secondary
education, students
take an exam to
determine whether
they may go on to
higher education
The best students take
further preparatory
classes in order to
attend the grandes,
écoles where they
study for careers in
government, the
military, education, and
industry , engineering,
marketing, and

Women are still less
educated than men:
female adult illiteracy
is sixty-four percent as
compared to thirtyeight percent for males.

Primary school
enrollment is eighty-six
percent for boys and
sixty-seven percent for
girls.

Home Education
France
French law allows home
schooling officially but the
majority of French people do
not know they have this choice.



A school inspector
inspects the home
schooled child once a
year.
Home schooling in
France has been legal
since December 1998
May require
homeschooled students
to be tested,
The Following Aspects Of French
Education May Surprise You
In theory, children must attend their
nearest school (unless having private
education) but in practice there are various
ways of getting a child into another school,
Schools make little use of
computers and all
homework must be
handwritten - on squared
paper; calculators are not
used until secondary school
(age 11).
School holidays are among the longest
in the world; summer holidays last
between 10 and 12 weeks.
Children are not
permitted to wear any
sign of religious affiliation
to school, e.g. crosses or
(Muslim) headscarves.
Children are
expected to bring a
lot of books home
each evening and
few schools
provide adequate
lockers.
Homework isn't
common in
primary schools
but is onerous at
secondary level,
pupils having at
least two hours
homework each
day.

Children learn to sing
in primary school and
to read music , to play
the recorder and other
instruments in
secondary school.

Few French teachers
speak good English except English
teachers
Even though attendance is mandatory up to the age of
16, about 150,000 students leave school each year
without a high school diploma, many from the junior
high level.
Works Cited
http://www.nationsencyclopedia.com/Europ
e/France-RELIGIONS.html
http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/timezone/europe/europeanunion/france/facts/index.htm
http://0search.proquest.com.helin.uri.edu/docview/
222276861?accountid=2428
http://www.myhomeschoolingweb.com/pla
nning/laws/france/
http://www.parisvoice.com/practicalparis/474-education-in-france