We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest France news every morning. Financial regulators, western governments and taxpayers rejoice: the French maths whizz-kids who populate ...

Jill Kitson: Welcome to Lingua Franca. This week: learning maths in French and French in Maths: does it work? Michele de Courcy on bilingual schooling in Australia. At a time when universities have ...

Nearly 18,000 pages of notes by eccentric French maths genius Alexandre Grothendieck were posted online Wednesday by his alma mater, Montpellier University in southern France. Grothendieck, who died ...

A report published on Tuesday has made uncomfortable reading for the French. The study, carried out by education research group Timss, revealed that French 10-year-olds were bottom of the class in ...

Having regular exercise while studying can help boost pupils' exam grades in both French maths, according to researchers, who say it develops their cognitive skills. To understand the influence ...

France ranked last in mathematics and next to last in science among European Union nations, according to the latest Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), a comparative report ...

Some French maths teachers are biased when marking girls' work, say researchers Girls in French secondary schools are benefiting from a marking bias by maths teachers, finds research. The girls were ...

MARSEILLE, France - Nearly 18,000 pages of notes by eccentric French math genius Alexandre Grothendieck were posted online Wednesday by his alma mater, Montpellier University in southern France.