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 ...

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 ...

A critically acclaimed French film tackles a popular belief that mathematics is a difficult subject to learn and useless once people pass the test to enter university. The documentary, dubbed “How I ...

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 ...

Girls in French secondary schools are benefiting from a marking bias by maths teachers, finds research. The girls were given 6% higher marks than boys for similar work, says the study, external by the ...