Other things that jump to mind:
The variation in graduation rate across different disciplines is probably worth exploring. Seeing enrollment/graduates as a percentage of the 18-25 year old age cohort would be nice. I’d like to know the average labor market outcomes and subjective well-being for people finishing the different courses of study, even though these numbers would hide the, perhaps more important, variation within each category.
(If I had the time, money, and general inclination — which I don’t, really, but if I did — I would take a serious look at the doctoral school focusing on théorie et pratique du sens. Sounds like fun!)
Thanks again, and I’ll be following the blog with interest.
]]>At Paris-1, on the other hand, there’s a separate école doctorale just for philosophy. My guess is that other disciplines are at least similar to one of these two examples, but I haven’t really checked. I would assume that at the grandes écoles, or at least EHESS, it’s a totally other system too… anyway, I’ll let you know if I find out more!
best, Eli
]]>But I was looking at the liste des doctorats at the Université Paris VIII — http://recherche.univ-paris8.fr/red_list_doc.php — and clicking through different links. For instance, I looked at the doctorat sciences de l’information et de la communication (since it’s close to my own discipline), which pulls up a list of names of enseignants chercheurs, not a department. When I click on the different names, the research centers to which the enseignants chercheurs are affiliated come up, but again, not a department.
In some ways, my question is rather tangential to the rest of your posts, but I’d be very interested to know how the system works in France.
Thanks!
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