{"id":12752,"date":"2026-01-13T10:41:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T09:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diligence-consulting.fr\/?p=12752"},"modified":"2026-08-31T14:36:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T13:36:50","slug":"foreign-models-facing-french-requirements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diligence-consulting.fr\/en\/foreign-models-facing-french-requirements\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign Models Facing French Requirements"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- ============================================================\n     DILIGENCE CONSULTING \u00b7 HOUSE OF EDUCATIONAL DIPLOMACY\n     Page : \/en\/foreign-models-facing-french-requirements\/\n     v2.0 EN \u00b7 31 August 2026 \u00b7 Charte RD-001 v3\n     Gutenberg \"Custom HTML\" block.\n     ============================================================\n     WHY A v2 RATHER THAN A CORRECTION PASS\n     The v1 was intellectually right and evidentially empty. It\n     asserted that French requirements filter rather than obstruct,\n     and produced not one article of law to show it. On a page whose\n     entire audience is foreign operators deciding whether to commit\n     capital in France, that is the wrong way round. The v2 keeps the\n     thesis, keeps the signature sentences, and puts the law under\n     them. Visible body roughly doubles.\n     ------------------------------------------------------------\n     THE FIVE CORRECTIONS RAISED ON REVIEW \u00b7 ALL APPLIED\n     1  PLURAL AGREEMENT. \"French requirements ... It seeks to\n        transform\" and \"its purpose\". Both gone with the rewrite.\n     2  THE CONFORMITY SENTENCE. The v1 wrote \"we do not ask foreign\n        schools to conform to French standards\". Read literally, that\n        says conformity is optional. It is not. Section VI now reads\n        \"we do not merely ask foreign institutions to conform to\n        French requirements\", which is the actual position: the House\n        does not reduce institutional entry to conformity.\n     3  THE HOMOGENISED LIST. \"The RNCP, RS, Qualiopi frameworks, or\n        the requirements of the Rectorate\" flattened four objects of\n        different legal natures into one word. Corrected in section I\n        to \"RNCP and R\u00e9pertoire sp\u00e9cifique registration, Qualiopi\n        certification, and the requirements applicable before the\n        competent Rectorate\", and each is then given its actual\n        perimeter.\n     4  THE SEQUENCE. \"Doctrine first, territory second, recognition\n        last\" predates the current doctrine and drops architecture.\n        Replaced by determination, architecture, execution.\n     5  THE OFFER NAME. \"The Arch\u00e9 International Audit\" is a retired\n        designation and \"audit\" reduces a determination to a\n        verification. Replaced by Arch\u00e9, the Institutional Entry\n        Review, with the three verdicts made visible.\n     ------------------------------------------------------------\n     WHAT THE v2 ADDS \u00b7 AND WHY IT IS PROPRIETARY\n     A  NATIONALITY. This is the finding. L731-1 opens the free\n        declaratory regime to a French national, a national of an EU\n        member State or of an EEA State, aged twenty-five, plus\n        associations lawfully formed for higher education. L731-8\n        then subjects everyone else to an AUTHORISATION to open\n        courses or to DIRECT an establishment, after the opinion of\n        the academic education council. An article addressed to\n        foreign operators that never mentions this was missing its\n        own subject.\n     B  THE AUTHORISATION IS PERSONAL. L731-8 is drafted on persons,\n        not on establishments. It is intuitu personae. The\n        consequence is operational and is stated in section II: the\n        obstacle is structural to the person, not to the project, and\n        it reappears precisely when a third-country national wants to\n        direct.\n     C  THE CODE DOES NOT NAME THE DECIDING AUTHORITY. L731-8 is\n        passive. 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No level of qualification, no place in the\n        national framework, no grade. \"RS certification at level 6\"\n        is a legal impossibility. Section IV.\n     F  COMPARABILITY IS NOT EQUIVALENCE. The comparability statement\n        of the ENIC-NARIC France centre rests on D314-52 of the\n        Education Code, which frames it as an establishment act. It\n        has no legal force and is not compulsory. There is no\n        automatic equivalence in French law. Section V.\n     ------------------------------------------------------------\n     \u26a0 FOUR THINGS THIS PAGE MUST NOT SAY\n     1  Who signs the L731-8 authorisation. Not established.\n     2  Anything on the position of Swiss nationals. L731-1 and\n        L731-8 name the EU and the EEA; Switzerland is party to\n        neither, but the 1999 free movement agreement was not\n        verified. Silence.\n     3  That \"bachelor\" or \"mast\u00e8re\" are prohibited. 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.bio-link{display:inline-block;font-family:Montserrat,sans-serif;font-size:.7rem;font-weight:800;letter-spacing:.04em;text-transform:uppercase;}\n\n\/* \u2500\u2500 THE HOUSE \u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500 *\/\n.dcfor .maison{background:var(--wh);border:1px solid var(--li);padding:20px;text-align:center;}\n.dcfor .maison-eye{font-family:Montserrat,sans-serif;font-size:.62rem;font-weight:900;letter-spacing:.22em;text-transform:uppercase;color:var(--ml);margin:0 0 13px;}\n.dcfor .maison-links{display:flex;flex-wrap:wrap;justify-content:center;gap:7px;}\n.dcfor .ml{padding:7px 14px;background:var(--pa);border:1px solid var(--ls);border-radius:999px;font-size:.74rem;font-weight:600;color:var(--is);transition:border-color .18s,color .18s;}\n.dcfor .ml:hover{border-color:var(--mo);color:var(--md) !important;}\n.dcfor .ml:focus-visible{outline:2px solid var(--br);outline-offset:3px;}\n.dcfor .ml.primary{background:var(--br);color:#ffffff !important;border-color:var(--br);box-shadow:0 4px 12px rgba(178,65,46,.20);}\n\n@media(min-width:720px){\n  .dcfor .dim-grid{grid-template-columns:1fr;}\n}\n<\/style>\n\n<div class=\"pg\">\n\n  <!-- \u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550 THRESHOLD \u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550 -->\n  <header class=\"head fd f1\">\n    <div class=\"top-row\">\n      <p class=\"kicker\">Institutional reading<\/p>\n      <p class=\"mark\">House of Educational Diplomacy<\/p>\n    <\/div>\n    <p class=\"page-title\">Foreign models facing French requirements<\/p>\n    <p class=\"subtitle\"><strong>Perceived as an obstacle. Revealed as a filter.<\/strong><br>What France examines is not the model. It is whether the model can be sustained here.<\/p>\n  <\/header>\n\n  <!-- \u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550 OPENING \u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550 -->\n  <div class=\"opening fd f2\">\n    <p>Educational models compete on apparent effectiveness. Singapore made agility its signature. India, volume. The United States, marketing. The Emirates, speed.<\/p>\n    <p>France kept something else. A systemic standard that binds quality, traceability and educational purpose, and that examines them together rather than in sequence.<\/p>\n    <p>What reads as an accumulation of rules is a filter of truth.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <!-- \u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550 I \u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550 -->\n  <div class=\"block fd f2\">\n    <p class=\"block-num\">I \u00b7 What is examined<\/p>\n    <h2>French requirements do not validate promises. They validate proof.<\/h2>\n    <div class=\"body-text\">\n      <p>Every foreign institution establishing in France discovers the same thing, usually late. Being innovative is not enough. Being reputable elsewhere is not enough. The structure has to hold.<\/p>\n      <p>RNCP and R\u00e9pertoire sp\u00e9cifique registration, Qualiopi certification, and the requirements applicable before the competent Rectorate are not merely technical procedures. They are alignment tests. They force the discourse, the pedagogy, the governance and the actual results into the same shape.<\/p>\n      <p>They are also, and this is the part most often missed, <strong>four different objects<\/strong>. They sit in two codes, examine different things, and are decided by different authorities. An operator who treats them as one compliance workstream has already misread the terrain.<\/p>\n      <p><a class=\"inl\" href=\"https:\/\/code.travail.gouv.fr\/code-du-travail\/l6113-1\">Article L6113-1<\/a> of the Labour Code registers <strong>professional certifications<\/strong>, not institutions. <a class=\"inl\" href=\"https:\/\/code.travail.gouv.fr\/code-du-travail\/l6316-1\">Article L6316-1<\/a> makes Qualiopi a condition of access for providers financed by a closed list of public and pooled funders, and nothing more. The requirements before the Rectorate belong to the Education Code and govern the opening of an establishment, never the value of what it awards. Each answers a question the others do not ask.<\/p>\n      <p>It is precisely that alignment, held across four separate examinations, that separates a durable educational brand from a venture.<\/p>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <!-- \u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550 II \u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550 -->\n  <div class=\"block fd f3\">\n    <p class=\"block-num\">II \u00b7 The first condition<\/p>\n    <h2>Before any requirement of quality, French law asks who you are.<\/h2>\n    <div class=\"body-text\">\n      <p>This is the condition foreign operators read last, and it comes first in the code.<\/p>\n\n      <div class=\"statute\">\n        <p class=\"statute-ref\">Education Code \u00b7 Article L731-1, first paragraph<\/p>\n        <p class=\"statute-text\">&#8220;Any French national or any national of another member State of the European Community or of another State party to the agreement on the European Economic Area, aged twenty-five, having incurred none of the incapacities provided for by article L. 731-7, together with associations lawfully formed for the purpose of higher education, may freely open courses and establishments of higher education, on the sole conditions prescribed by this title.&#8221;<\/p>\n        <p class=\"statute-gloss\">The free declaratory regime is open to three categories of person, plus associations. The text still says &#8220;European Community&#8221;, eleven years after the Treaty of Lisbon replaced it with the Union. The scope is not in doubt. The drafting simply was never updated.<\/p>\n      <\/div>\n\n      <p>A national of any other State falls outside that paragraph. What applies instead is a different regime altogether, set out in a single sentence written in 2000.<\/p>\n\n      <div class=\"statute\">\n        <p class=\"statute-ref\">Education Code \u00b7 Article L731-8<\/p>\n        <p class=\"statute-text\">&#8220;Foreign nationals who are not nationals of a member State of the European Community or of another State party to the agreement on the European Economic Area may be authorised to open courses or to direct private higher education establishments after the opinion of the academic education council.&#8221;<\/p>\n        <p class=\"statute-gloss\">Not a declaration. An authorisation. And &#8220;may be authorised&#8221; leaves a margin of appreciation: it is not granted as of right.<\/p>\n      <\/div>\n\n      <p>Three consequences follow, and each one changes how an entry should be structured.<\/p>\n\n      <p><strong>The authorisation is personal, not institutional.<\/strong> The sentence is drafted on persons. Its object is the legal capacity of an individual to perform two acts, opening courses and directing establishments. It is not an establishment licence, not an accreditation, not a recognition, not a programme approval. A third-country national who is authorised holds nothing over the establishment itself, which remains subject to the ordinary declaratory regime and to every obligation of the title.<\/p>\n\n      <p><strong>It attaches to direction.<\/strong> L731-8 is the only article in the chapter that names the act of directing. The difficulty is therefore structural to the person, not to the project. It recedes where the establishment is opened by an association lawfully formed for higher education or administered by persons meeting the conditions of L731-1. It returns the moment a third-country national wants to direct in their own name.<\/p>\n\n      <p><strong>The consulted body is academic, not national.<\/strong> The opinion is that of the education council instituted in each acad\u00e9mie, which the code still calls in places the conseil acad\u00e9mique de l&#8217;\u00e9ducation nationale. Article L234-6, I, 2\u00b0 confirms the referral expressly. The Cneser has no competence here. The opinion is simple, not binding: where the legislator wanted a binding opinion, as at article L6113-6 of the Labour Code, it wrote one.<\/p>\n\n      <p>One detail deserves to be recorded rather than smoothed over. <strong>The code organises the opinion and does not name the authority that signs the authorisation.<\/strong> L731-8 is drafted in the passive. No identified provision, legislative or regulatory, designates the decision maker. For a regime of prior authorisation, that silence is not a curiosity. It is a measure of how rarely the question has been posed.<\/p>\n\n      <p>A separate filter runs alongside, and it applies whatever the nationality of the applicant. Under article L731-1-1, the prefect may oppose the opening of a course or an establishment in order to prevent any form of foreign interference or to protect the fundamental interests of the Nation. This one bears on the project, not the person, and it carries closure of the establishment.<\/p>\n\n      <p>The bill on the regulation of private higher education, adopted by the Senate at first reading on 1 June 2026 and still before the National Assembly, would extend the right to open to any lawfully constituted legal person. It does not touch L731-8. The nationality condition, its 2000 drafting and its academic opinion survive the reform as it stands.<\/p>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <!-- \u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550 III \u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550 -->\n  <div class=\"block fd f4\">\n    <p class=\"block-num\">III \u00b7 The missing category<\/p>\n    <h2>French law does not know what a foreign establishment is.<\/h2>\n    <div class=\"body-text\">\n      <p>Search the Education Code, legislative and regulatory parts, for the establishment that awards its own foreign degree in France. For the delocalised campus. For the branch of a foreign university. Nothing answers.<\/p>\n      <p>There is no implantation authorisation. No campus approval. No procedure for recognising a foreign operator as such. What exists concerns something else entirely: French public institutions concluding agreements with foreign partners, the assessment of foreign degrees for admission, fee exemptions under an agreement. None of it constitutes a regime of entry.<\/p>\n      <p>The absence is not a permission. It is a refusal to grant the foreign operator any particular quality.<\/p>\n      <p>Three consequences follow, and together they are the actual applicable regime.<\/p>\n      <p>A foreign operator opening in France does not open a foreign campus. <strong>It opens a French private higher education establishment<\/strong>, subject in full to the ordinary regime: declaration of opening, three administrators at minimum, proof of identity, age and nationality, extract from the judicial record, receipt, transmission to the public prosecutor, inspection of the premises by the rector, and a permanent right of control open to the delegates of the minister.<\/p>\n      <p>The personal and political filters accumulate on top of it. Incapacities under L731-7. Authorisation under L731-8 where a third-country national is involved. Prefectoral opposition under L731-1-1.<\/p>\n      <p>And the foreign degree awarded in France has no French legal existence. It is not a national diploma, not a State-endorsed diploma, not a grade. It remains the establishment diploma of a foreign entity.<\/p>\n      <p class=\"pivot\">France does not filter to exclude.<br><strong>It filters to elevate.<\/strong><\/p>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <!-- \u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550 IV \u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550 -->\n  <div class=\"block fd f4\">\n    <p class=\"block-num\">IV \u00b7 The vocabulary<\/p>\n    <h2>The words a foreign institution has always used are the words French law reserves.<\/h2>\n    <div class=\"body-text\">\n      <p>An institution accustomed to calling itself a university, and to awarding degrees under familiar names, meets a prohibition on arrival. It is penal.<\/p>\n\n      <div class=\"statute\">\n        <p class=\"statute-ref\">Education Code \u00b7 Article L731-14<\/p>\n        <p class=\"statute-text\">&#8220;Private higher education establishments may in no case take the title of universities. The certificates of study awarded to their students may not bear the titles of baccalaur\u00e9at, licence or doctorat.&#8221;<\/p>\n        <p class=\"statute-gloss\">Absolute, without exception in the Education Code. A fine of thirty thousand euros, incurred by the person responsible for the establishment, a natural person, not by the establishment itself.<\/p>\n      <\/div>\n\n      <p>The regime is not symmetrical. University, baccalaur\u00e9at, licence and doctorat are prohibited outright. The name of master, and any reference to the master&#8217;s grade, are prohibited only in the absence of accreditation or authorisation by the State. The same fine applies in all three cases.<\/p>\n\n      <p>Note what the article does <em>not<\/em> prohibit. The commercial names most used by the private sector are not listed. The June 2026 joint report of the IGAS and the IG\u00c9SR recommends adding them, proposing to prohibit terms liable to create confusion in course titles, naming bachelor and mast\u00e8re, and to require an explicit statement that the certification is equivalent to none of the national degrees and opens no automatic right to continue at university. That is a recommendation, not law. It is also a reliable indication of where the line is moving.<\/p>\n\n      <p>Alongside the prohibition sits a positive obligation. Article L731-19 requires private higher education establishments to state, in their advertising, their status and the nature of their relations with the State. Two cumulative elements, in the present indicative, which is to say imperative.<\/p>\n\n      <h3>And a registration that carries no level<\/h3>\n      <p>One confusion costs more than the others. <a class=\"inl\" href=\"https:\/\/code.travail.gouv.fr\/code-du-travail\/l6113-6\">Article L6113-6<\/a> establishes the R\u00e9pertoire sp\u00e9cifique, which registers certifications and accreditations corresponding to professional competencies <strong>complementary<\/strong> to professional certifications. Complementary is the operative word.<\/p>\n      <p>The RNCP classifies its certifications by level of qualification within the national framework, in blocks of competencies, with possible correspondences with the certifications of European Union States. The R\u00e9pertoire sp\u00e9cifique does none of that. No level. No place in the framework. No grade. Presenting a R\u00e9pertoire sp\u00e9cifique certification as a State-recognised qualification at level 6 or 7 is not an exaggeration. It is a legal impossibility, since the register carries no level at all.<\/p>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <!-- \u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550 V \u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550 -->\n  <div class=\"block fd f5\">\n    <p class=\"block-num\">V \u00b7 The degree<\/p>\n    <h2>There is no equivalence. There never was.<\/h2>\n    <div class=\"body-text\">\n      <p>Foreign operators arrive expecting a mechanism that converts their degree into a French one. No such mechanism exists in French law.<\/p>\n      <p>What exists is a comparability statement, issued by the ENIC-NARIC France centre within France \u00c9ducation international, whose mission is set out at article D314-52 of the Education Code and framed there as an establishment act. It has no legal force. It is not compulsory. The final decision belongs to the receiving institution.<\/p>\n      <p>The reason sits one level higher. <a class=\"inl\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legifrance.gouv.fr\/codes\/article_lc\/LEGIARTI000046774857\">Article L613-1<\/a> opens with a sentence that admits no alternative reading: <em>&#8220;The State holds the monopoly on the conferral of degrees and university titles.&#8221;<\/em> Where the State holds a monopoly, no third party issues an equivalent.<\/p>\n      <p>The word equivalence does survive in one place, and it is a trap. Article D714-8 charges the university service for foreign students with verifying whether foreign degrees may be granted equivalence <em>with a view to the studies envisaged<\/em>. That is an internal appraisal, specific to one institution, one faculty, one course. The same degree may be admitted in one and refused in another. Which is the definition of having no equivalence.<\/p>\n      <p>The framework is not purely national. Under the Lisbon Recognition Convention of 11 April 1997, published in France by decree n\u00b0 2000-941, each Party recognises the higher education qualifications conferred in another Party unless a substantial difference can be shown. That is a presumption and an allocation of the burden of proof, not an automatic conversion, and the Convention expressly reserves the decision to the competent authorities of each Party.<\/p>\n      <h3>Two recognitions that are never the same<\/h3>\n      <div class=\"seq\">\n        <div class=\"seq-row\">\n          <p class=\"seq-key\">Academic<\/p>\n          <p class=\"seq-body\">Purpose: continuing studies. Decided by the receiving institution, course by course. Effect limited to that institution and that course. The comparability statement supports it and binds no one.<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n        <div class=\"seq-row\">\n          <p class=\"seq-key\">Professional<\/p>\n          <p class=\"seq-body\">Purpose: entering a <strong>regulated profession<\/strong>. Governed by directive 2005\/36\/EC as amended, transposed by ordinance n\u00b0 2016-1809. Decided by the authority competent for that profession. Compensation measures may apply where differences are substantial, and the general regime is confined to qualifications obtained in, or recognised by, an EU or EEA State.<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n      <p>A comparable degree is not an enabling degree. A degree recognised academically by a French university confers no right to practise anything. Institutions that promise their students otherwise are exposed on a point they did not know they were exposed on.<\/p>\n      <p class=\"pivot\">The encounter with France is not a confrontation.<br><strong>It is a mirror.<\/strong><\/p>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <!-- \u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550 VI \u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550 -->\n  <div class=\"output fd f5\">\n    <p class=\"block-num\">VI \u00b7 Educational diplomacy<\/p>\n    <h2>Requirements as a catalyst rather than a wall.<\/h2>\n    <div class=\"body-text\">\n      <p>Institutions that meet this standard come out of it stronger, more rigorous, more credible. They become able to speak to the State, to funders and to employers on an equal institutional footing. Confronted with these requirements, foreign models sometimes meet their limits. They also meet their real strength.<\/p>\n      <p>At Diligence Consulting, we do not merely ask foreign institutions to conform to French requirements. We guide them in translating their excellence into a coherent and defensible institutional architecture, in the institutional language of France, without losing what makes them distinctive.<\/p>\n      <p>That is educational diplomacy in practice. The meeting point of purpose and system.<\/p>\n      <p>A coherent institutional entry is never a collection of procedures. It is a governed sequence.<\/p>\n      <div class=\"seq\">\n        <div class=\"seq-row\">\n          <p class=\"seq-key\">Determination<\/p>\n          <p class=\"seq-body\">First. What the institution claims, what its structure can substantiate, and whether the two hold together before any authority is approached.<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n        <div class=\"seq-row\">\n          <p class=\"seq-key\">Architecture<\/p>\n          <p class=\"seq-body\">Second. Governance, legal vehicle, academic structure and evidence built so that the claim becomes defensible.<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n        <div class=\"seq-row\">\n          <p class=\"seq-key\">Execution<\/p>\n          <p class=\"seq-body\">Only when the trajectory is defensible. Never before.<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n      <p>This is where the future of international higher education is decided. Not in the competition of models, but in the capacity to coexist with rigour, recognition and mutual respect.<\/p>\n      <p class=\"pivot\">It transforms ambitions<br><strong>into architecture.<\/strong><\/p>\n      <p>The question worth putting to a board before anything is signed is not whether the model works elsewhere. It is <strong>what remains of it once French law has read it, and who, in the structure as it stands today, is legally capable of directing what you intend to open.<\/strong><\/p>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <!-- \u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550 ACCESS \u00b7 SINGLE CTA \u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550 -->\n  <div class=\"access fd f6\">\n    <p class=\"access-label\">Access<\/p>\n    <h2>Institutional entry begins under the Arch.<\/h2>\n    <p class=\"access-body\">Arch\u00e9 is the Institutional Entry Review that determines whether a proposed trajectory is coherent, defensible and ready to proceed. The House examines the request before deciding whether to open it. A request the House does not retain is not invoiced.<\/p>\n    <div class=\"verdicts\">\n      <span class=\"vd\">GO<\/span>\n      <span class=\"vd\">Not yet<\/span>\n      <span class=\"vd\">No go<\/span>\n    <\/div>\n    <a class=\"cta-arche\" href=\"https:\/\/diligence-consulting.fr\/en\/entry-under-the-arch\/\">Enter under the Arch<\/a>\n    <p class=\"access-micro\">Prior reading required \u00b7 No exploratory commercial call<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <!-- \u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550 PRIMARY SOURCES \u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550 -->\n  <div class=\"sources fd f6\">\n    <p class=\"sources-label\">Primary sources<\/p>\n    <ul>\n      <li>French Education Code, articles L731-1, L731-7, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legifrance.gouv.fr\/codes\/article_lc\/LEGIARTI000006525458\">L731-8<\/a> and L731-1-1, opening of private higher education establishments and the position of foreign nationals.<\/li>\n      <li>French Education Code, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legifrance.gouv.fr\/codes\/article_lc\/LEGIARTI000027748361\">article L731-14<\/a> and article L731-19, protected titles and advertising obligations.<\/li>\n      <li>French Education Code, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legifrance.gouv.fr\/codes\/article_lc\/LEGIARTI000046774857\">article L613-1<\/a>, State monopoly on the conferral of degrees, and articles D314-52 and D714-8.<\/li>\n      <li>French Labour Code, <a href=\"https:\/\/code.travail.gouv.fr\/code-du-travail\/l6113-1\">article L6113-1<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/code.travail.gouv.fr\/code-du-travail\/l6113-6\">article L6113-6<\/a>, national register of professional certifications and R\u00e9pertoire sp\u00e9cifique.<\/li>\n      <li>French Labour Code, <a href=\"https:\/\/code.travail.gouv.fr\/code-du-travail\/l6316-1\">article L6316-1<\/a>, quality certification of training providers.<\/li>\n      <li><a href=\"https:\/\/rm.coe.int\/168007f2de\">Lisbon Recognition Convention<\/a>, 11 April 1997, published in France by decree n\u00b0 2000-941 of 18 September 2000.<\/li>\n      <li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr\/fr\/la-reconnaissance-des-diplomes-dans-l-union-europeenne-46483\">Ministry of Higher Education, recognition of degrees in the European Union<\/a>, and directive 2005\/36\/EC as transposed by ordinance n\u00b0 2016-1809.<\/li>\n      <li>IGAS n\u00b0 2025-044R7 and IG\u00c9SR n\u00b0 24-25 261F, June 2026, on the supervision of for-profit private higher education.<\/li>\n      <li>French Senate, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.senat.fr\/dossier-legislatif\/pjl25-313.html\">legislative file, bill n\u00b0 313 (2025-2026)<\/a> on the regulation of private higher education.<\/li>\n    <\/ul>\n    <p class=\"sources-note\">State of the law at 31 August 2026. Bill n\u00b0 313 was adopted by the Senate at first reading on 1 June 2026 and is before the National Assembly. It is not in force. This page is an institutional reading, not legal advice.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <!-- \u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550 BIO \u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550 -->\n  <div class=\"bio fd f6\">\n    <p class=\"bio-label\">The reading is issued by<\/p>\n    <p class=\"bio-name\">Sandrine Ouilibona<\/p>\n    <p class=\"bio-body\">Founder &amp; CEO of Diligence Consulting, House of Educational Diplomacy. Author of the Arch\u00e9 framework for institutional determination and founder of the <strong>Educational Diplomacy\u00ae<\/strong> discipline. She advises French and international educational institutions on recognition, establishment and institutional legitimacy across Europe.<\/p>\n    <a class=\"bio-link\" href=\"https:\/\/diligence-consulting.fr\/en\/educational-diplomacy-the-diligence-consulting-manifesto\/\">Read the Manifesto<\/a>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <!-- \u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550 THE HOUSE \u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550 -->\n  <div class=\"maison fd f6\">\n    <p class=\"maison-eye\">The House<\/p>\n    <div class=\"maison-links\">\n      <a class=\"ml\" href=\"https:\/\/diligence-consulting.fr\/en\/establishing-in-france\/\">Establishing in France<\/a>\n      <a class=\"ml\" href=\"https:\/\/diligence-consulting.fr\/en\/institutional-glossary-establishing-in-france\/\">Institutional glossary<\/a>\n      <a class=\"ml\" href=\"https:\/\/diligence-consulting.fr\/en\/the-acid-test-for-educational-brands\/\">The acid test<\/a>\n      <a class=\"ml primary\" href=\"https:\/\/diligence-consulting.fr\/en\/entry-under-the-arch\/\">Enter under the Arch<\/a>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<!-- \u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550 JSON-LD \u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550 -->\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">\n{\n  \"@context\": \"https:\/\/schema.org\",\n  \"@graph\": [\n    {\n      \"@type\": \"Article\",\n      \"@id\": \"https:\/\/diligence-consulting.fr\/en\/foreign-models-facing-french-requirements\/#article\",\n      \"headline\": \"Foreign models facing French requirements\",\n      \"description\": \"French law imposes conditions of nationality on opening a private higher education establishment, and recognises no category of foreign establishment at all. 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