France is the fourth most popular country in the world for international students, with thousands of Americans, British and Australians coming here to study. Here's what you need to know about them.
International students from around the world believe France has become a more attractive place to study than the UK or the US, according to a new survey.
With students from all over the world descending on Paris this week for the start of a new term, we take a look at the best ways to save money while living in the French capital on a shoestring.
School pupils, angered by an officer’s beating of a fellow student, on Friday staged violent protests in Paris, pelting at least two police stations with rocks and setting off tear gas canisters.
Victor Hugo may be a national treasure in France, but he’s not appreciated by thousands of teens forced to write about his poems for the school leaving exam this week. In fact, they’ve taken to Twitter to bash the Les Miserables author, in the strongest terms.
An end-of-year event at elite French business management school HEC in Paris started with a drink, but ended with a drunken riot, with graffiti sprayed on walls and furniture tossed from windows. It's another example of French students continuing to imitate their US counterparts.
In a strange tribute to France's iconic monument, scores of Chinese graduates are paying for plastic surgery to make their noses resemble the Eiffel Tower. The move may sound like a wind-up but is the latest tactic to help jobseekers get their noses in front.
As thousands of British students head to France to begin their gap year abroad, the UK embassy in Paris has issued a list of warnings on how best to stay of out trouble. From avoiding renting scams to not making any false friends, there are plenty of pitfalls students need to be aware of.
In France the internship or 'stage' as it is known here, has become a rite of passage on the way to landing a job. With thousands of young foreign professionals and students signing up for internships in France The Local is on hand to offer a breakdown of the good and bad points.
A British maths teacher accused of abducting one of his 15-year-old students and absconding to France with her, has gone on trial, it was reported on Wednesday. A prosecutor told the court: "This is not Romeo and Juliet."
A 37-year-old Frenchman has lost his appeal to overturn his 30-year jail sentence for murdering an Australian student who was beaten, strangled and dumped in a car park outside Paris.
Every year thousands of students come to France to study and most of them head to Paris. Giving us the lowdown on student life in the capital this week is American Anne Waldrop, who says even on a budget Paris is the place to study.
Every year French authorities are bombarded with applications from foreign students desperate for the chance to study in France. As part of The Local's My France series, Australian Josh Kacimaiwai tells us about his life as a student on the French Riviera.
A young American student kidnapped in Geneva upon leaving a nightclub was robbed and abandoned close to Lyon, east-central France, a detailed report revealed on Wednesday.
The 23-year-old French student who had been missing for two weeks in southern Sweden was found dead on Wednesday night, with police stating that they no longer suspected any foul play.
A married British teacher who fled with a 15-year-old schoolgirl to France agreed Tuesday to be extradited, as his lawyer said the arrested fugitive wanted his "full story" to emerge.
British police were liaising with French colleagues on Monday in an effort to track down a missing 15-year-old girl said to have fled across the Channel with a married teacher twice her age.
<p><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">A French court has ordered the release of Christian Iacono, who was given a nine-year prison sentence for raping his grandson Gabriel. For years, Gabriel maintained his grandfather raped him before spectacularly retracting his accusations.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Unions and feminist groups have pointed to an alarming number of students who finance their studies through prostitution.</span></p>
