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The workload is one of the highest in Europe [1] [2] (29 to 45 contact hours a week, with up to 10 hours of guided tutorials and oral exam sessions). Unlike most students in France who enroll in public universities directly after receiving a high school diploma, students from CPGE have to take national competitive exams to be allowed to enroll ...
' baccalaureate '), often known in France colloquially as the bac, is a French national academic qualification that students can obtain at the completion of their secondary education (at the end of the lycée) by meeting certain requirements.
The usual length of the programs is 8 months to 1 year and the advanced grad-entry program that offers equivalency with first year of a graduate degree is for 2 years. The first postbaccalaurate program was created in 1955 at Columbia University. [4]
Famously, [6] [7] in Preparatory Class for 'Grandes Écoles' (CPGE), an optional 2-4 year preparation for the most elite universities in France, [8] [9] students are graded so harshly [10] that class ranking, rather than individual grades, usually reflects an individual's performance, especially when comparing the grades to secondary or ...
Education in Algeria is free and compulsory for Algerians from the ages of 6 to 15. [1] However, only half of Algerian students are enrolled in secondary schools. [2] As of 2015, Algeria has 92 post-secondary institutions, which includes 48 universities. [3]
The Lycée International Alexandre Dumas (LIAD; Arabic: ثانوية الكسندر دوما الدولية) is a French international school in Ben-Aknoun, Algiers, Algeria. [1] It has two divisions: primaire (primary school) and collège-lycée (junior and senior high school).
[2] USTHB was the largest university in Algeria until 2013; it has over 20,000 students. The government's five-year plan aiming at raising the number of university students in Algeria from 1.2 million in 2010 to 2 million students in 2014 has led to the construction of new universities and faculties in almost every Algerian town; some ...
The Barbary slave trade and Barbary corsairs originating from Ottoman Algeria were a major problem throughout the centuries, leading to regular punitive expeditions by France (1661, 1665, 1682, 1683, 1688). [1] French admiral Abraham Duquesne fought the Barbary corsairs in 1681 and bombarded Algiers between 1682 and 1683, to help Christian ...