The global trend of increasing participation rates, coupled with regional goals to increase participation in higher education, such as the European Union’s Europe 2020 Strategy target of 40% of all young people to hold a tertiary education qualification by 2020, has led to a strain on public resources, and a review of funding priorities in mass higher education systems, in some cases prioritising funding towards an elite. Reforms within European higher education systems have been further prompted by the lacklustre performance of European higher education institutions in international university rankings. The paper aims to contextualise French reforms within the broader European Union agenda for the modernisation of higher education, and its focus on greater differentiation, in order to assess how this has been disseminated and translated in the French context, and how it breaks with the French egalitarian tradition. Through a policy document analysis of French and EU strategies for higher education and research and political communications and data extracted from the Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation’s Excellence Initiatives scheme, the paper seeks to understand whether France is creating a multi-tiered higher education system for which no precedent has existed before. However, because of the sui generis structure of French higher education that makes it difficult to classify within the various structural models of higher education, policy implications for other countries will not be discussed. The French case will provide insights on the converging trends of globalisation, and the agency of institutional carriers such as the European Commission in interpreting and disseminating particular strategies.

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重新规划法国高等教育：迈向多层次的高等教育体系？

参与率提高的全球趋势，再加上提高高等教育参与率的区域目标，例如欧盟的欧洲 2020 战略目标，即到 2020 年让 40% 的年轻人拥有高等教育资格，这导致了对高等教育的压力。公共资源，并审查大众高等教育系统的资助优先事项，在某些情况下，优先资助精英。欧洲高等教育机构在国际大学排名中表现平平，进一步推动了欧洲高等教育体系的改革。该文件旨在将法国改革置于更广泛的欧盟高等教育现代化议程中，并将重点放在更大的差异化上，为了评估它是如何在法国语境中传播和翻译的，以及它如何与法国的平等主义传统决裂。通过对法国和欧盟高等教育、研究和政治传播战略的政策文件分析以及从高等教育、研究和创新部卓越计划计划中提取的数据，本文试图了解法国是否正在创建多层次的高等教育以前没有先例的制度。然而，由于法国高等教育的独特结构使得难以在高等教育的各种结构模型中进行分类，因此不会讨论对其他国家的政策影响。法国案例将提供有关全球化趋同趋势的见解，