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31 reviews
3.94 / 5 based on 31 reviews
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anonymous
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Language, Undergraduate, University Agreement
Academic
Course recommendations
Most of the literature classes at Ens take the form of seminars or workshops and deal with broad themes, e.g literature and politics, writers and opera. etc. If you want to study a specific writer/literary movement, or gain some broader knowledge in a particular field, it is advisable to attend lectures at Paris 4 (Sorbonne) or Paris 3. Having said this, many of the French literature lectures I tried at Paris 4 were quite disappointing. I would however highly recommend Bertrand Marchal's courses for anyone who is interested in 19th c. Fr. literature - Baudelaire, Mallarme, Huysmans etc.
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Assez bon espace carrières
Jade L
France, Graduate
Literature, 2025
Overall
Mon établissement donne de très bonnes bourses de stage et propose des stages à l'étranger comme en France, mais surtout dans les secteurs scientifiques. Etant en littérature, cela ne m'est pas très utile.
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Bon contact
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The problem of xenophobia, nationalism, liars and professional bouncers in universities and technology companies
studiosum
Ukraine, Other courses
, 2020
Overall
This in-depth overview looks at study and academic opportunities in a European environment such as French and German-speaking universities and research institutes.


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Pros: Tourist attractions, cheap food; lots of free cheap junk food, opportunities to learn the language, many friendly, polite, pleasant, hardworking, decent and honest people.


Cons: expensive housing; endless European nationalism; bullying of foreigners; we know almost everything about your worldview; sexual, racial, ethnic, age-related harassment; toilet jokes are the norm; interrogations - who wrote this or that here or there?; we checked the ip-address, what did you do in this or that place?; for what purpose were you in a particular region of Hindustan, Asia, the Middle East, Latin America and so on; high salaries, teamwork, paid academic work and the defense of scientific dissertations - only for their loved ones, close "minions" or "protégés"; priority is given to real French, EU citizens and real Europeans; we do not read diplomas, dissertations and scientific works of foreigners; find yourself a European professor with a good reputation to conduct research; the typical answer to all scientific proposals is no.


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This review is devoted to the important topic of discrimination against foreign students on national and social grounds in the international system of science and education. Today, naturally, many regions of the world are multinational, multicultural and multilingual. For foreigners in Europe, the topic of nationalism, xenophobia and discrimination is relevant in a variety of areas. Foreign students, interns, foreign language teachers, journalists and researchers in the science and education system can be subject to aggression and harassment. The academic and corporate community prioritizes students from “good” countries and pays minimal attention to “difficult” students and students from “bad” countries. This topic is relevant both for school and university education, as well as for the engineering and technological community and the environment of technology corporations. This issue affects leading international universities as well as corporations on the Nasdaq list.


Today, as always traditionally, different countries form military-political blocs. This division takes place in economics, ideology, scientific and academic work. One big bloc is the EU, NATO member states and their close allies in different regions of the world. They have close economic and military-political ties. These countries support all democratic, “good” things and fight against all “evil” and “bad”. People with the citizenship of these countries today enjoy their economic, national, social, moral and intellectual superiority. For the "fight against evil", economic sanctions, the development of the military industry and all possible measures to accelerate the economy are used. The leaders of these countries and other politicians talk about the "axis of evil" and their close, no less "bad" allies with the same "inhuman face". These are "bad" countries, "aggressor countries", an analogue of the "evil empire" or the country "Mordor". "Well-wishers" branded these countries as sources of "endless malice", "poverty", "totalitarianism" and "aggression."


In the scientific and educational environment of universities and in the technological corporate environment, there are examples of various negative phenomena. First, young people face cases of interethnic discord, gender discrimination and sexism. Secondly, these are cases of aggression and political persecution in the academic environment of conferences, seminars and lectures. Third, students face cases of xenophobia, discrimination, and nationalism during internships and work.


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Pros
Tourist attractions, cheap food; lots of free cheap junk food, opportunities to learn the language, many friendly, polite, pleasant, hardworking, decent and honest people.
Cons
expensive housing; endless European nationalism; bullying of foreigners; we know almost everything about your worldview; sexual, racial, ethnic, age-related harassment; toilet jokes are the norm; interrogations - who wrote this or that here or there?
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Jane W
University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
Humanities, Graduate, University Agreement
Overall
Personal recommendation
Go if you have a definite project in mind (eg archive research for doctoral studies)
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During my experience abroad, I ...
(1) Never – (4) A lot
Became familiar with another culture
4
Traveled
3
Improved language skills
3
Met people from other countries
3
Became more independent
3
Partied a lot
3
Experienced a change in life
3
Advanced my studies & career
4
Programmes
En semi-présentiel, Master, Sciences Politiques, 1 An
450 €
En présentiel, Master, Lettres
Prix sur demande
En présentiel, Master, Lettres
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En présentiel, Master, Lettres
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REVIEWS BY INTERNS AT Ecole Normale Supérieure
Stage édition
Expérience très enrichissante avec un très bon tuteur qui me fait découvrir tous les aspects d'une grande et brillante maison d'édition. Va de la traduction à la relecture, à l'interview d'auteurs et d'illustrateurs ainsi qu'à des considérations de droits étrangers de publication.
ABOUT
The ENS covers a vast spectrum of academic disciplines in both the humanities and sciences. It does so within six humanities departments (Philosophy, History, Classics, Literature and Languages, Social Sciences, Geography) and six science departments (Pure and Applied Mathematics, Computing, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Land-Atmosphere-Ocean). In each of these departments, the activities of teaching and research are closely interlinked. The initial task of the Ecole, to form the teachers and professors of the future, remains its fundamental vocation; but this has significantly widened in recent times, and pupils now go on to a wide range of future careers.
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Homepage: www.ens.fr
Phone: +33 1 44 32 35 81 (Int'l Office)
Address: Ecole Normale Supérieure, 45 rue d'Ulm, 75230 cedex 05, Paris, France