Publications

Pupils' success at school owes a great deal to the quality of the teaching and the support provided by their teachers throughout their learning process. The quality of teacher recruitment and training is thus crucial for school performance. The recruitment and initial training of future teachers hav...

The French Federation of Cardiology (FFC), a non-profit organisation governed by the law of 1901 and created in 1964, has been recognised as a public-interest organisation since 1977. It brings together 27 independent regional cardiology associations, spread throughout the country, mainly around the...

The desire for strategic independence and the narrowness of the domestic defence market, combined with the need to build solid military cooperation, have led France to develop an ambitious military equipment export policy. This strategy is part of an international context marked by higher volumes of...

The Greater Paris Metropolis (MGP) comprises 130 municipalities and the City of Paris, representing a total population of over seven million inhabitants. The report published today by the Court of Auditors begins with a reminder that the decision to create the MGP was prompted by an ambitious reform...

Although national expenditure on education is higher than the average of OECD countries, the French education system is struggling to produce satisfactory results. Despite the objectives of equality, the national uniformity specified is dealing with real inequalities in the treatment of pupils and l...

The First President of the Court of Accounts was heard on 10 January by the Senate's Committee on Culture, Education and Communication and then by the National Assembly’s Committee on Cultural Affairs and Education. These hearings follow the submission to Parliament of a progress report on the prepa...

Occupational health is a major issue: while under the Labour Code, companies are responsible for protecting the health of their employees, nearly one million accidents, several hundred of which are fatal, and nearly 50,000 new cases of occupational diseases are recorded each year. To compensate vict...

Today’s report is the first by the Court of Accounts to specifically address the context, organisation and results of the Covid-19 vaccination campaign. In December 2020, this vaccination campaign began, just a few months after the pandemic became global. Initially targeted at the population groups ...

Inspired by the British model when it was created in 2016, the French Public Health Agency (Santé Publique France - SPF) is an agency under the Ministry of Health. It was created from the merger of four organisations to improve the coherence and efficiency of public policies in the fields of epidemi...

Between 2020 and August 2022, 34.5 million cases of Covid-19 contamination were identified in France (excluding the results of self-tests). More than 150,000 people died, of which almost 126,400 were in hospital. Contact tracing, deployed from May 2020 after the first lockdown, is one of the tools f...