Macron promises more market reform for higher education

Suggestions of raised tuition fees and greater role for industry seized on by political adversaries

Emmanuel Macron has announced his desire for another raft of thoroughgoing reforms to the French university system.

However, many of the reforms suggested in his speech at the annual meeting of the Conference of University Presidents, on 13 January, are strongly redolent of those promised in the run-up to the 2017 presidential election; they couple the greater involvement of industry in higher education with the lingering threat of an introduction of higher tuition fees for French students.