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Two French business schools in Europe’s top 5

HEC Paris and INSEAD have made it into the top five spots of the Financial Times's prestigious rankings for Europe's best business schools.

Published: 1 December 2014 16:39 CET
Two French business schools in Europe's top 5
INSEAD graduates can expect to earn on average €118,763 annually, the second highest salary only behind London Business School graduates. Photo: Roslan Rahman/AFP

HEC Paris may have lost top spot to London Business School this year, but it still managed to secure second place in the FT’s rankings.

As for rival French business school INSEAD – with campuses in Fontainbleu, Singapore and Abu Dhabi – a cool fifth spot was secured in part because its graduates can expect to earn on average $148,183 (€118,763) annually, the second highest salary only behind London Business School graduates.

France and Spain are the only two countries in Europe to have two of their business schools in the top five, although Madrid’s IE and Barcelona’s ESADE both scored higher in terms of gender balance.

EMLyon, Essec and Edhec Business Schools made it into the top 20, in 14th, 15th and 17th place respectively. 

Click here to see the Financial Times's full business schools rankings for 2014

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Police probe opened after poster campaign against ‘Islamophobic’ lecturers at French university

The French government condemned on Monday a student protest campaign targeting two university professors accused of Islamophobia, saying it could put the lecturers in danger.

Published: 8 March 2021 13:35 CET
Police probe opened after poster campaign against 'Islamophobic' lecturers at French university
Illustration photo: Justin Tallis/AFP

Student groups plastered posters last week on the walls of a leading political science faculty in Grenoble that likened the professors to “fascists” and named them both in a campaign backed by the UNEF student union.

Junior interior minister Marlene Schiappa said the posters and social media comments recalled the online harassment of French schoolteacher Samuel Paty last October, who was beheaded in public after being denounced online for offending Muslims.

“These are really odious acts after what happened with the decapitation of Samuel Paty who was smeared in the same way on social networks,” she said on the BFM news channel. “We can’t put up with this type of thing.”

“When something is viewed as racist or discriminatory, there’s a hierarchy where you can report these types of issues, which will speak to the professor and take action if anything is proven,” Schiappa said.

Sciences Po university, which runs the Institute of Political Studies (IEP) in Grenoble in eastern France, also condemned the campaign on Monday and has filed a criminal complaint.

An investigation has been opened into slander and property damage after the posters saying “Fascists in our lecture halls. Islamophobia kills” were found on the walls of the faculty.

One of the professors is in charge of a course called “Islam and Muslims in contemporary France” while the other is a lecturer in German who has taught at the faculty for 25 years.

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