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 29/01/2008, 15:59
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Paul
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We are also undertaking a feasibility study, with a view to moving to France. We have 3 children aged 12, 7 and 2. Like yourself we were very dismayed at the amount of negative comment we found and whilst we accept that there will obviously be difficulties, not just for the children but for us as well, we feel that the possible advantages outweigh the negative. At times you have to go with your instinct , you know your children better than anyone else and what is right for one family might not be right for another.
My wife and I have spoken in great detail in why we want to move to France, we have discussed it with the children and they know that whatever happens we will always be there for them.
All the best
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29/01/2008, 16:37
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KathyF
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Hi Paul,
Welcome to the forum and good luck with your plans. Could I please make one suggestion before you start posting on other topics? Your choice of grey print on the cream background makes your post very difficult to read for some one like me with less than perfect eyesight. Good old black is always much easier. Hope you don't mind me mentioning it.
Kathy
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29/01/2008, 17:39
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breizh
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I have put my tin hat on, and I'm about to duck, as I'm about to give you my 2 cents worth.
We have no children, but my french wife was 5 years a CAPES language teacher teacher in a big town in Brittany, moved to the UK, qualified there, and taught languages in UK comprehensives for 10 years. She reckons, that the French education system is generally lower quality than the UK, and the unversities are considerably lower than the Uk, apart from les grand ecoles.
Now, having said that, after 3 years living in Barcelona we are back living in France, as we go where my job takes me, and she's teaching here again! So it's Gueret (23) at the moment, but to head office in Germany after that.
Certainly having lived in other countries and then moved back to the UK, I find it amazing how lowly the Brits regard everything in their own country. France, Spain, Germany, the media mainly tell only good things. Why do the British hate their country so much?
By the way Dominique started at Brest Uni, but transferred to Rennes as she just hated Brest, miserable apparently in the winter!
If anyone knows L'Express, Bd Clemenceau, Guingamp (22), say hello to ma belle mere.
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29/01/2008, 18:47
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Mackyfrance
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 breizh wrote: | |
We have no children, but my french wife was 5 years a CAPES language teacher teacher in a big town in Brittany, moved to the UK, qualified there, and taught languages in UK comprehensives for 10 years. She reckons, that the French education system is generally lower quality than the UK, and the unversities are considerably lower than the Uk, apart from les grand ecoles.
Certainly having lived in other countries and then moved back to the UK, I find it amazing how lowly the Brits regard everything in their own country. France, Spain, Germany, the media mainly tell only good things. Why do the British hate their country so much?
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My french friends tell me that University (not including the Grande Ecoles) is only considered on the same level as say a FE College. I couldn't agree more about the French education system. Knowing what I know after 4 years here, I wish we'd kept our children in the UK system. I think we've seriously compromised their futures by putting them through the system here.
Your last comment is a whole other argument. The British press is hell bent on telling us that the UK is going down the toilet and sadly too many British people believe what they read in the papers. Life according to the Daily Mail seems to be the commonly held view.
Scratch below the surface in France and EXACTLY the same problems exist here - youth crime, rising prices, violence, illegal immigrants but the foreign community largely seems to live in blissful ignorance! However, the French press are, at the moment, far more loyal to their countrymen. For my part, I love the UK and I'm proud to be English.
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29/01/2008, 19:07
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Jura
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29/01/2008, 19:09
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Scooby
 
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And from here too - well said Macky
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29/01/2008, 19:12
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Jura
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Forget this 'great adventure' business here in France Katie-poo; great problems lie in store in France for the unsuspecting. It is not Utopia, it is not the be-all and end-all of everything in life. Unless you are retired, self-sufficient, or have toddlers.
The grass is not always greener...in other words.
If it is for some, then fine. It ain't for many others.
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29/01/2008, 20:03
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Clarkkent
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ClarkKent, regardless of which league tables you look at French Universities don't fare well. Look at all the others - it's the same story more or less. That is why the education minister is so determined to do something about them.
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Yes, I agree.
I agree wholeheartedly with you in your following post, as well. I was discussing Britain with a Daily Mail reader the other day. (Well, defending Britain, really.) He was astonished to learn that MRSA is a world-wide phenomenon and that there are more people dying from MRSA related problems than AIDS in the USA. He was convinced that we have the filthiest hospitals in the world and that MRSA was a purely local problem!
I like France, and am very happy to have a holiday home there, but I think that England is a wonderful place to live.
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