Tuesday, 22 January 2019

Interaction with Professors from France

It is always good to meet some favourite guests, with whom we like to talk about ourselves. But is also great to meet guests from around the world and to talk about their culture and know their country. It get more excitement when it is surprised. On 22nd January 2019, we also got similar kind of surprise guest visit from France. 


Professor Saeed Paivandi and Professor Fontanini Christine, from University of Lorraine, France, had visited the department of Economics in our Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University to talk about ‘Changing Higher Education System’. From there we have surprised visit to our department of English. Professor Kishor Joshi from Economics department has introduced the guest and we have got the chance to interact with them.


There was a question to Professor Saeed about the social, political and economical changes in France society, because he is the professor of Sociology. From his answer we had come to know about some similarities between India and France. He has talked about the unequal distribution of wealth and some current affairs like “Yellow West Movement” and the agitation which has take place in France for reducing the taxes. He also has talked about the importance of democracy. He said that to discuss social, political, and economical facts of country, the freedom is must and that freedom people get from democracy. So he has emphasized on respect and practice democracy.


Then we also interact with Professor Christine. She has done research in gender studies and Feminization of education. Here also we have found some similarities between France and India. She has said that the numbers of female education is increasing but there are more female studies in Humanities and Medicine then in Engineering or Computer studies. Same we can observe in India that there are more numbers of female students in Humanities and less in Engineering. Though there is some difference between the percentage of people pursuing higher education in France and in India. Of course France have more percentage of people going for higher education then in the India.

Both the professors has talked about very interesting phenomenon which is taking place in France, which is merging up the universities to show the universal presence and to make universities recognised and valued at world level. They have said that this merging up the universities will increase the quality of teaching and also will contribute more to the world level.

At the end of the day, though it was very short and surprised meeting we have meaningful interaction with guests and we got some authentic information about France. It is always pleasure to meet some one from across the sea and to know about them. I want to show gratitude towards the guest from France for coming and to the professor of Economics to take them to our department. I also would like to say thanks on behalf of our Department of English.


Thank you

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