French government agency
AEFE head office in Paris TheAgency for French Education Abroad , orAgency for French Teaching Abroad ,[ 1] (French :Agence pour l'enseignement français à l'étranger ;AEFE ), is a national public agency under the administration of theMinistry of Foreign Affairs of France that assures the quality of schools teaching theFrench national curriculum outside France. The AEFE has 495 schools[ 2] in its worldwide network, withFrench as the primary language of instruction in most schools.
The AEFE head office is in the14th arrondissement of Paris .[ 3]
Schools are either directly managed (gestion directe ), contracted (conventionné ) oraccredited (homologué ).[ 4] The schools provide an education based on the French national curriculum for pupils of various cultures frompreschool throughsecondary school , and some receive substantial financial support from theFrench government . The schools provide an education[citation needed ] leading to abaccalauréat , and students have access to all other French schools at their own educational level.
In addition, the schools have a curriculum linked to the individual countries in which they are established. TheLycée Français de San Francisco (formerly Lycée Français La Pérouse) and theInternational School of the Peninsula in San Francisco, for example, includeAmerican History andEnglish Literature in its program, and theLycée Français de Caracas in Venezuela includes History of Venezuela (ICV) from 6th to 9th grade.
Schools are located throughout Europe, the Americas, Asia and Africa. Most of their pupils are children of French expatriates but they also include many regular pupils attracted by the quality of schooling provided.[citation needed ] In any given academic year, around 160,000 students study in these schools.
While there are no public guidelines for naming schools in the AEFE network, they tend to have some similarities. A school that follows the French curriculum through secondary school (high school in the United States andsixth form college in Great Britain) is often named aLycée Français and prepares students for the Frenchbaccalauréat . Schools that combine the local and French curricula are often called French-American orFranco-Mexicain schools. Schools that offer theInternational Baccalaureate are often called International School orLycée International .
Schools operated by or receiving funding from AEFE [ edit ]
Abu Dhabi ,Lycée Louis-Massignon Abu Dhabi ,Lycée Français Théodore-Monod Accra ,Lycée Français Jacques Prevert d’Accra Alicante ,Lycée Français d'Alicante Pierre Deschamps Alexandria ,Lycée Français d'Alexandrie Amman ,École Française d'Amman Amsterdam ,École Française Amsterdam Andorra la Vella ,Lycée Comte de Foix [fr ] Ankara ,Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle, Ankara Antananarivo ,Écoles et Lycée Français de Tananarive Antananarivo ,Lycée La Clairefontaine Asunción ,Lycée Français International Marcel Pagnol Athens ,Lycée Franco-Hellénique Eugène Delacroix Austin ,Austin International School Bali ,Lycée Français de Bali Bangkok ,Lycée Français International de Bangkok Barcelona ,Lycée Français de Barcelone Beijing ,Lycée Français International de Pekin Beirut ,Grand Lycée Franco-Libanais Beirut ,Lycée Franco-Libanais Verdun Beirut ,Lycée Abdel Kader Berlin ,Collège français-Lycée français Berlin , Collège VoltaireBerkeley , California École Bilingue de BerkeleyBilbao ,Lycee Francais de Bilbao Bobo Dioulasso , École Française André Malraux[2] Bogotá ,Lycée Français Louis Pasteur Bonn ,École Charles de Gaulle - Adenauer Boston ,International School of Boston Brussels ,Lycée Français Jean Monnet Bucharest ,Lycée Français Anna de Noailles Bucarest Budapest ,Gustave Eiffel French School of Budapest Buenos Aires ,Lycée Franco-Argentin Jean Mermoz Cairo ,Lycée Français du Caire Calgary , Lycée Louis PasteurCali , ColombiaLycée Français Paul Valéry de Cali California ,International School of the Peninsula Cape Town ,École François Le Vaillant Caracas ,Lycée Français de Caracas Casablanca ,Lycée Lyautey Chicago ,Lycée Français de Chicago Concepción ,Lycée français Charles de Gaulle Conakry ,Lycée français Albert Camus Copenhagen ,Lycée Français Prins Henrik Curicó , Lycée français Jean MermozDakar ,Lycée français Jean Mermoz de Dakar Dallas ,Dallas International School [3] Damascus , Lycée Français Charles de GaulleDhaka , École Française Internationale de DaccaDelhi ,Lycée Français de Delhi Doha ,Lycée Français de Doha Doha ,Lycée Franco-Qatarien Voltaire Douala , Lycée Français Dominique SavioDubai ,Lycée Français Georges-Pompidou Dubai ,Lycée Français International Dublin ,Lycée Français d'Irlande Düsseldorf ,Lycée français de Düsseldorf Greenville ,The International School of Greenville SC Guadalajara ,Lycée Français de Guadalajara - Colegio Franco Mexicano Guatemala ,Lycée Jules Verne Habbouch (Lebanon ),Lycée Franco-Libanais Habbouche-Nabatieh Frankfurt ,Lycée Français Victor Hugo Hamburg ,Lycée Français Antoine de Saint-Exupéry de Hambourg Hanoi ,Lycée français Alexandre Yersin Heidelberg ,Ecole Pierre et Marie Curie Heidelberg [4] Hong Kong ,Lycée Français International Victor Segalen Houston ,Awty International School Houston ,Lycée International de Houston Islamabad ,École Française Alfred Foucher Istanbul ,Lycée français Pierre Loti Jakarta ,Lycée Français de Jakarta Jerusalem ,Lycée Français de Jérusalem Johannesburg ,Lycée français Jules Verne Kyiv ,Lycée français Anne-de-Kiev Košice ,Lycée bilingue M.R. Štefánik Kuwait City ,Lycée Français de Koweït Kuala Lumpur ,Lycée Français LFKL La Paz ,Lycée Franco-Bolivien Alcides D'Orbigny Lagos ,Lycée Français Louis Pasteur de Lagos Lima ,Lycée Franco-Péruvien Lisbon ,Lycée Français Charles-Lepierre London ,Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle London ,Lycée International de Londres Winston Churchill Los Angeles ,Lycée International de Los Angeles (LILA)Los Angeles ,Lycée Français de Los Angeles Luxembourg ,Lycée français Vauban [5] [6] Archived 2015-02-28 at theWayback Machine Madrid ,Lycée Français de Madrid Málaga ,Lycée Français de Málaga Bamako ,Lycée Français Liberté de Bamako Bamako , Groupe Scolaire Les AngelotsManagua ,Lycée Franco-Nicaraguayen Victor Hugo Manama ,École Française de Bahreïn Manila ,Lycée Français de Manille Mauritius ,Lycée Labourdonnais Mauritius ,Lycée des Mascareignes Meknes ,Lycée Paul-Valéry Mexico City ,Lycée Franco-Mexicain Milan ,Lycée Stendhal de Milan Montevideo ,Lycée Français de Montevideo Montreal ,Collège International Marie de France Montreal ,Collège Stanislas Montréal Mumbai ,Lycée Français International de Mumbai Munich ,Lycée Jean Renoir de Munich Murcia ,Lycée français André-Malraux de Murcie [7] Muscat ,École Française de Mascate Nairobi ,Lycée Denis Diderot New Orleans ,Lycée Français de la Nouvelle-Orléans New Jersey ,The French American Academy New York ,French-American School of New York (located in suburbanWestchester County ).New York ,Ecole Internationale de New York Nicosia École Franco-Chypriote de Nicosie Oslo ,Lycée français René Cassin Osorno ,Lycée français Claude Gay [8] Ottawa ,Lycée Paul Claudel [9] Ouagadougou ,Lycée français Saint-Exupéry Philadelphia ,French International School of Philadelphia Phnom Penh ,Lycée français René Descartes de Phnom Penh [10] Pondicherry ,Lycée français de Pondichéry Porto ,École Française Marius Latour Pretoria , École Miriam Makeba Annexe dulycée français de Johannesburg Port-au-Prince ,Lycée Alexandre Dumas Port Vila ,Lycée Français Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio [11] Princeton, New Jersey , French American School of PrincetonProvidence, Rhode Island , French-American School of Rhode IslandQuebec City ,Collège Stanislas Annexe de Québec Rabat ,Lycée Descartes Rio de Janeiro ,Lycée Molière Rome ,Lycée Chateaubriand San Diego,San Diego French-American School San Francisco ,French American International School San Francisco ,Lycée Français La Pérouse San José, Costa Rica ,Lycée Franco Costarricien Santa Cruz de la Sierra ,Ecole Française de Santa Cruz Santiago (Vitacura commune),Lycée français Antoine de Saint-Exupéry [12] Santo Domingo ,Lycée Français de Saint domingue ,[13] Seoul ,Lycée Français de Séoul Shanghai ,Lycée Français de Shanghai Sharjah ,Lycée francais international Georges Pompidou Singapore ,French School of Singapore ,Sofia ,Lycée Victor Hugo de Sofia ,[14] Stockholm ,Lycée Français de Stockholm Sydney ,Lycée Condorcet The French School of Sydney Taipei ,Taipei European School Tangier ,Lycée Regnault Tegucigalpa ,Lycée Franco-hondurien The Hague ,Lycée Français Vincent van Gogh ,[15] Thessaloniki , École Française de ThessaloniqueToamasina ,Lycée Français de Tamatave Tokyo ,Lycée Franco-Japonais de Tokyo Toronto ,Lycée Français de Toronto Toronto ,Toronto French School [16] Tunis ,Lycée Pierre Mendès France Tunis (La Marsa),Lycée Gustave Flaubert Valencia , Lycée Français de Valence[17] Vancouver ,Cousteau École Française Internationale de Vancouver Vienna ,Lycée Français de Vienne Vilnius ,Lycée International Français de Vilnius Viña del Mar ,Lycée français Jean d'Alembert Yaoundé ,Lycée Français Fustel de Coulanges Warsaw ,Lycée français de Varsovie René Goscinny [18] Washington, D.C. ,Lycée Rochambeau Zürich ,Lycée Francais Marie Curie de Zurich
Africa Lycée International Alexandre-Dumas (Algiers, Algeria)Lycée Français de Tananarive (Antananarivo, Madagascar)Lycée Français du Caire (Cairo, Egypt)Lycée Jean Mermoz (Dakar, Senegal)Lycée Victor Hugo (Marrakesh, Morocco)Lycée Paul Valéry (Meknès, Morocco)Lycée La Fontaine (Niamey, Niger)Lycée Français Théodore Monod (Nouakchott, Mauritania)Lycée Descartes (Rabat, Morocco)Lycée Regnault (Tangier, Morocco)Lycée Gustave Flaubert (Tunis, Tunisia area)Asia Europe South America
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