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Moving to France, for whatever reason, is an exciting adventure, and an opportunity to enjoy a new way of life. However, language barriers and education can sometimes cause concerns. Bordeaux International School can help to smooth this transfer. Older children sometimes find it difficult to integrate into the French education system, which can be further compounded by a limited understanding of the language, but Bordeaux International School provides continuity of curriculum and facilitates the acquisition of bilingual skills through its international staff. For 30 years, Bordeaux International School has provided an unrivaled pupil-centered environment, where small classes are taught to a high standard. Our latest examination results, which far exceed the UK national averages, are one indication of the quality of our teaching. Some of our English-speaking pupils have previously attended French schools, where they found it difficult to make progress. At Bordeaux International School, we help pupils gain maximum benefit from their new life in France they learn French in a supportive environment and develop an appreciation of French culture and lifestyle through our involvement with the local Bordeaux community. We teach pupils of all ages and nationalities with different educational and linguistic needs. Our staff, which includes both French and English native speakers, are highly competent, dedicated, and experienced in teaching multinational pupils with a teaching approach that focuses on the pupils and structures their learning for them to achieve their full academic potential. You and your child(ren) are cordially invited to visit the school and meet our staff and pupils. We would be delighted to greet you personally and introduce you to the relevant head of the section who will show you around the school, and answer any questions you might have. Please do contact me if you require any further information. Bordeaux International School offers a multicultural academic environment where students become bilingual independent thinkers, active learners, and responsible global citizens. To help students reach their full potential by encouraging them to think creatively, reason critically expresses themselves confidently, and become independent learners. To equip students with a level of fluency in at least two languages, to encourage interaction with pupils of different nationalities and thus promote an appreciation of diverse cultures. To enable pupils to reach a level of academic achievement, knowledge, and understanding which prepares them for international further education and ultimately a global career. To develop pupils’ self-respect and encourage them to become inspired, balanced, and responsible global citizens. To encourage students to engage in a sustainable lifestyle, to develop an understanding of world issues, and to inspire them to become responsible global citizens. B.I.S. has been managed by a co-operative (SCOP) since 1999. The teaching and administrative team is the senior partner: every decision or action is exclusively dedicated to improving learning and student life. The students come from over twenty countries and their length of stay ranges from six months to ten years. In Early Learning, Primary and Middle School / College, approximately 50% of the students are French. In the English High School, there are a large majority of English-speaking students, but also students from all backgrounds and nationalities, including French, who prepare university entrance diplomas for their stay in a foreign school. Bordeaux International School employs highly qualified, experienced teachers from all over the world. They share a passion for teaching and are dedicated to student success. Our teachers work together in a trusting, caring learning environment to deliver a unique curriculum based on both the French and English education systems, but with an international dimension that develops the potential of each student. Programs and teaching approaches are frequently reviewed and adapted as a result of regular professional development both in France and abroad. Teachers work closely with parents (PTA) to ensure that all aspects of student well-being are addressed. They are attracted to working at BIS by its excellent reputation, and all share the same enthusiasm, energy, and passion for this unique school. View full school

As a public institution under the French Ministry of Agriculture's authority, Bordeaux Sciences Agro collaborates with other similar institutions in France and abroad through a network of higher agronomic institutes, notably in the framework of joint courses. For 50 years, Bordeaux Sciences Agro has been able to forge privileged relationships with companies. These ties supplement our institution's courses by helping increase the professionalism of the subjects taught and by fostering the graduates' professional futures by ensuring that the courses are suited to the real world. Bordeaux Sciences Agro is a public higher education institute and agronomic research facility under the French Ministry of Agriculture, Agrifood and Forestry. Founded in 1962, it trains 600 students every year who follow Agronomy degree courses in their initial education as students or apprentices, or one of the six Master's degrees co-accredited by universities in Bordeaux or by national partners, and in the specialized Master's degree accredited by the 'Conférence des Grandes Ecoles.' The establishment was created under the name of 'ENITA de Bordeaux.' A higher education establishment offered intermediary 3-year Agronomy degrees after a specific preparatory course dispensed in agricultural secondary schools. It did not have a research vocation. This is a plus for the estate, which benefits from being in the school's cutting-edge scientific environment. In particular, Bordeaux Sciences Agro aims to make this urban vineyard into a showcase for best practices in economically efficient and environmentally friendly wine growing. The entire Bordeaux Sciences Agro scientific community contributes to the 'Luchey Agro-ecologic Project.' Fifty years after it was founded, ENITA de Bordeaux changed its name to become 'Bordeaux Sciences Agro.' This name change was part of a progressive coming together of national engineering trades schools (ENITs) and the former national higher agronomy schools (ENSAs). The separation between these two groups of schools had progressively been narrowing since the 1990s with creating a common competitive exam for schools of agronomy and the creation of a single body of professors and researchers. A new position, new impetus, and new brand name! Opening of international courses with the Creation of the Master of Business and Sciences in Vineyard and Winery Management. The Schools of Engineering's International Masters degree is taught entirely in English and is a response to Bordeaux Sciences Agro's strategic decision to increase its international appeal in one of the fields of excellence for which the Bordeaux site is a global reference. This MBS aims to offer original courses in response to demand from the wine sector for wine estate managers abroad, against a backdrop of the strong global growth of the sector with the arrival on the wine market of new countries with very high potential in production, consumption, and investment (China, India, Russia, etc.). The plans to create the 'school forest' on the Agreaux estate are being conducted jointly by the Jacques and Françoise Lescouzères Foundation, under the aegis of the Institut de France, and by Bordeaux Sciences Agro in partnership with the members of the Training Platform. This concept corresponds to a model that is currently on the rise internationally. It consists of providing teaching and research projects in real-life conditions on a forest estate. Bordeaux Sciences Agro works with 40 permanent teaching staff, including 15 professors, experts in several domains: Agronomy, Animal Sciences, Biology, Economics, Ecology, Botanical Sciences, Viticulture, Oenology, Forestry, Processing Engineering, Environment Engineering, Management. Professors carry out academic teaching missions as well as research and knowledge transfer activities. Each professor is a member of one of the 14 Joint Research Units and belongs to one of the six Research & Academic Training Departments. You will complete your enrolment at the 'Direction des Etudes' office (the Department of Academic Studies) when you arrive. You will then be provided with your student ID card, enrolment certificate, and internet access codes. When you arrive at the University, you will receive your Aquipass card. This is your student passport. It is your source of ID and will allow you to use the many services on offer: checking out books at the library, eating at the university restaurants, etc. The electronic card system also allows you to make individual purchases. View full university

The University of Bordeaux is a public scientific, cultural and professional institution. Run by a president elected by its executive board is composed of governing bodies, administrative components, and departments. The University of Bordeaux welcomes over 53,000 students and nearly 6,000 staff members. Here are just ten reasons to come and join us! Approximately 13% of students at the University of Bordeaux are international. The university has developed a wide range of international study programs taught in English (or other languages such as Spanish) and that offer students the possibility of completing joint or double degrees. Over 50 international study programs exist at Bachelor, Master, and Doctorate levels, including 11 EU-labeled programs. The University of Bordeaux is a leading university in France for participation in the Erasmus Mundus Program. The university employs around 5,600 staff members, of which nearly 4,000 are academic and research staff. They are recognized for the quality of their scientific and teaching qualifications. They all hold doctorates or Ph.D. degrees and the medical lecturers are all active hospital practitioners at Bordeaux University Hospital. The field of research is a driving force of the University of Bordeaux. The excellence of its competencies in all scientific fields was recognized in July 2011 when the university was awarded the "Initiative of Excellence". This award consists of an endowment of 700M€ to support the growth and development of research. In 2016, the University of Bordeaux was one of only three universities in France to obtain confirmation of this program. The university welcomes almost 2,000 Ph.D. students, currently has 280 joint theses (co-tutelle) agreements running, boasts 19 associated international laboratories, and much more. Check out our critical figures section to discover the scope of our research activities. The University of Bordeaux is positioned N°190 within the Shanghai Ranking (2017) and N°164 within the Shanghai Alternative Ranking (2016) published by the University Jiao Tong (China). Amongst the French establishments that feature in the first 500 of this ranking (22 in total), it is placed in the top ten. The University of Bordeaux remains true to its open and humanistic philosophy. This openness is illustrated via the numerous partnerships with international universities (over 1,000 cooperation agreements have been signed with over 500 establishments worldwide). Dedicated programs have been implemented with Japan (Tsukuba, Kyoto, Kyushu), California, Canada (Laval, Montreal, Waterloo), and the Basque campus of excellence, "Euskampus". Students play an active and vital role in university life. They are elected to the university boards (Board of Governors, Scientific Council, Council on University Studies and Life) and participate in various consultative bodies. Students are also involved in the annual appraisal of the teaching staff and become active members of cultural or faculty associations, all contributing to keeping the university "on the move". There are in total over 135 student associations within the university. Thanks to the multitude of study programs on offer, students can design their personalized course of study best adapted to their personal and professional plans. Many courses are designed along with professional organizations, especially in pharmaceuticals, enology, sport management, etc., with professional degrees and sandwich courses and mandatory work experience starting in the first year. For the duration of their studies, students can benefit from career guidance specialists on-site. Within the region, solid industrial partnerships have been established with the various economic sectors that exist (aeronautics, space, chemistry, health, IT, optic/laser, forestry, and wine) and that offer promising career perspectives for our graduate's students. The University of Bordeaux has one of the largest campuses (187 hectares) in Europe. It is composed of several sites that are located near to the city and that offer a wide range of services and amenities. In terms of sports equipment, the offer is extensive: 3 synthetic and one football turf pitches, five rugby turf pitches, a sports hall of 2,000m² for basketball, tennis, table tennis, badminton, etc., three squash courts, an athletics track, a weights room… the list goes on! Within each site, dedicated offices (for students and international researchers) offer advice and information to support the newcomers' integration into university and city life. Also, the future looks bright! Operation Campus is an ongoing renovation project of 538M€ destined to modernize and better equip the four main campus sites. The admission conditions depend on many factors: level of study, country of origin, student status - exchange student (mobility program), or free mover (degree-seeking)... Find here all you need to know depending on your situation. View full university

Bordeaux Montaigne University brings together more than 14 000 students and 1 300 teaching and administrative staff for study and research in the arts, languages, literature, and human and social sciences. As a laboratory for ideas, and an intellectual hotbed, Bordeaux Montaigne University contributes meaningfully to the scientific debates of its day and works tirelessly to cultivate and nurture its fundamental values: independence, and freedom of thought. The University considers equality of opportunities to be one of its priority missions. It works permanently to perfect the courses it offers and to support and guide its students towards success. Now so more than ever before, Bordeaux Montaigne University seeks to follow in the path of Michel de Montaigne, continuing to offer a university model that is distinctly human in its scope and appearance. By the values that have characterized it since its very establishment, the University seeks to be: humanist, exploratory, polyglot, civic-minded, creative, and digitally connected. Bordeaux Montaigne University upholds and protects its academic disciplines. At the same time, new disciplines have also been introduced. The University continues to adapt to the vocations of today and the future, without abandoning its convictions and while persisting in its research priorities. Bordeaux Montaigne University offers 138 nationally-recognized diplomas. These are offered across its three university faculties, known as UFRs: Humanities, Languages and Civilisations, and Territorial and Communication Sciences, and its two university institutes: the Bordeaux Montaigne University Institute of Technology, (IUT) and the Bordeaux Aquitaine Institute of Journalism (IJBA). Both institutes are situated in the Sainte-Croix neighborhood of Bordeaux. The University also offers teaching in English and Spanish at its branch in Agen, the Centre Universitaire d'Agen. Moreover, the University is associated with the teacher training college for the Aquitaine region (ESPE d'Aquitaine), to provide professional training for future schoolteachers. Each year, some 450 students come to study at Bordeaux Montaigne as part of international co-operation and exchange agreements. They arrive from across Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas, and some 300 home students go off to study abroad. The University is immensely proud of this strong international network, the development, and promotion of which figures high on the list of strategic challenges to be addressed over the coming years. Pride of place is given to our visiting professor program, dispensing teaching in a foreign language, and playing an active role in international networks. Bordeaux Montaigne has always been a destination for students from France's overseas territories, and this tradition has now been extended to overseas students of all origins. Approximately 120 different nationalities figure each year among the students enrolled at the University. Bordeaux Montaigne University offers many services and tools to improve access to information for everyone. All university buildings have disabled access, and the team at the Disability Services, or Pôle Handicap, receives disabled students and supports them throughout their studies. Healthcare and social welfare professionals are also ready to help, both at the University and on the campus in the city center. Bordeaux Montaigne University has 47 associations working on a wide range of missions, and some are specifically dedicated to welcoming international students. Wherever you may be on campus, the Aquipass card will be your key and can be used to borrow items from the university libraries, pay for your meals in university restaurants, and so on. The interlibrary loan is a service that permits to bring books, Ph.D. thesis, and journal articles copy conserved in other French or foreign libraries. At Bordeaux Montaigne, we educate our students in disciplines that are intimately linked to creativity and critical thinking, and students are immersed in an environment in which individual talents may flourish. The University is open to society at large, a world in which cultural exchange and artistic expression may be freely voiced. Throughout the year, the University offers a rich and varied program of cultural events, music, theatre, literature, or cinema. It supports and advises students and lecturers who run cultural projects and promotes artistic expression through workshops, artists in residence, performances, and intellectuals encounters. These events and activities are the fruit of close partnerships between the central service promoting cultural activity and student life, the faculties, research teams, and student associations and between the University and its institutional and cultural partners from the city of Bordeaux and broader urban area. The University's cultural life has a remarkable venue at its disposal - the Arts Centre, entirely dedicated to arts education, creation, and expression. View full university