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CODE OF EDUCATION
(Legislative Part)
First Part
General and common provisions
1st BOOK
GENERAL PRINCIPLES ON EDUCATION
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2nd TITLE
Objectives and tasks of the education public service
1st Chapter
General provisions
Section L121-1[1]
The schools, middle schools (colleges), secondary schools
(lycées) and higher education centres shall be responsible
for transmitting and providing knowledge and working methods. They shall
contribute to encourage equality among men and women. They shall ensure
the teaching of the knowledge and of respect of human rights as well
as the comprehension of particular harmful situations. They shall offer
a teaching adapted, in its contents and methods, to the economic, social
and cultural evolutions of the country and its European and international
environment. Such teaching may include the teaching, at all levels,
of regional languages and cultures. […]
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Section L121-3[2]
I. – The command of the French language and the knowledge of
two more languages shall be part of the fundamental objectives of the
education.
II. – French shall be the language of education, exams, competitions,
as well as the language for thesis and dissertations, in the public
and private education centres, except for justified needs of the teaching
of regional or foreign languages and cultures, or when the teachers
are associate professors or foreign guests. […]
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3rd Chapter
Objectives and tasks of higher education
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Section L123-6[3]
The public service of higher education shall be in charge of ensuring
the development of culture and the transmission of knowledge and the
outcomes of research.
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It shall enforce the promotion and enrichment of the French language
and of the regional languages and cultures. It shall contribute to the
study and development of the elements of the national and regional heritage.
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2nd BOOK
THE ADMINISTRATION OF EDUCATION
1st Title
The distribution of the competences between the State and the territorial
collectives
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4thChapter
The competences of the regions
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Section 4
The competences of the overseas regions.
Section L214-17
The particular competences of the overseas regions on educations,
set forth in the provisions of sections L. 4433-25 and L. 4433-26 of
the General Code of Territorial Collectives, are the following:
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2nd part
School education
3rd BOOK
THE ORGANISATION OF SCHOOL EDUCATION
1st Title
General organisation of education
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Section L312-10[4]
The teaching of regional languages and cultures may be provided throughout
schooling.
The Higher Council of Education (Conseil supérieur de l'éducation)
shall be consulted, in accordance with the attributions set in section
L. 231-1, on the means to promote the study of regional languages and
cultures in the regions where these languages are used.
Section L312-11
Teachers shall be authorised to make use of regional languages in
primary and nursery schools whenever they can benefit from it for their
teaching, especially for the study of the French language.
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