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France's Challenge: Embracing Academic Globalization Without Fear


Last August, the Fields Medal—the equivalent of a Nobel Prize in mathematics—was awarded to four researchers, including two young French professors, Cédric Villani and Ngo Bao Chau. (...) Mr. Villani and Mr. Ngo received French educations par excellence, but their career trajectories illustrate a challenge for France.



(...) The increasing command of English by scholars over the past 10 or 15 years certainly played a most important role in fostering this new generation of academic globe-trotters. In a highly competitive marketplace, they turn out to be fully exportable. For example, in a 2010 report that I wrote for the French think tank Institut Montaigne, entitled "Gone for Good? The French Academic Diaspora in the United States," I reported that French professors working in America are teaching in some of the best institutions. (...)

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