Today we had a surprise visit by Prof. Saeed padvani & Prof. Fantanini Christine from University of Laraine, France. They visited to Maharaja Krishnkumarsinhji Bhavnagar University. They had small visit to our Department of English for brief talk on higher education system. Prof. Kishor Joshi from Department of Economics has introduction the guest.
They have talked about the France culture, emerging of various streams and smaller educational Universities to set a particular University as world class University, effect of economical crises and class conflict upon education system, gender differences in various education streams . It was very fruitful and interesting session.They were very curious to interact with students. Prof. Saeed don't have the citizenship of France. He came to France to learn French language.
1) They mainly talk about two things. Firstly they talk about merger of smaller University as part of making world class University.
2) they talk about gender disparity in higher education . Apart from this they also talked about unequal distribution of wealth, yellow movement and unemployment.
He lived their as foreigner. He closeky look over the culture of France. He talked about the Violence's insome French movements and according to him violence can never give a proper solution to any problems.
Some students asked few questions to them related to their culture and effect of feminine study over their culture. prof. Christine's thoughts were contrasting from Prof. Speed. According to her violence is very normal in these movements .
She talked about economical crises among the various classes. Elite people became more rich, poor became more poorer and in between them middle class faces more economical crises. Thing also affects on education system.
In 1980 there were 6% working class and 35% elite people were studying. In 2015 it increased with population 35% Working class and 90% elite class people were studying in Universities. They have also talked about Feminist in education system. In the education system of France there are 55% women studying in various streams of education system.
Through this conversation over feminism in education we came to know about the ratio of women in various fields like
Humanity 80% ,
Engineering 60%,
Medicine 75%,
Surgery 17%,
Law 15%etc.
This ratio is quite similar to india. In India more women are in stream of Humanities rather than other streams like Engineering, law, surgery etc. In medicine more women can be seen as nurse but few as surgeon.All these high designations have been occupied by males. Men are gaining high salary compare to women.
This conversation we came to know that situations are parallel on the global level. The situations and interests of French women in various eduction streams are quite similar as india.
This type of interactions provide us authenticity about particular culture. It was very knowledgeable and about interesting session. I would like to thank Krishnkumarsinhji University ,Prof. Kishor joshi of Economics department and Prof. Dilip barad for organising this surprise visit.
