A free, teacher-less university in France is schooling thousands of programmers

Re:A free, teacher-less university in France is schooling th... by rmah on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @12:27PM (#17239289)

"64,000 took a basic online logic test to qualify for entry. More than 20,000 passed, but the school only accepted the top 3,000 due to space constraints. Those 3,000 compete in pools of 1,000 for a month to see who best completes the digital projects; the top third of performers are then admitted."

So the admittance rate is 1 in 64 or 1.56%. That is insanely selective. This is not bringing education to the masses, this is cheeping out on instructors because the students are smart enough to learn on their own.

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Re:A free, teacher-less university in France is schooling th... by lelabo_42 on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @03:24AM (#17245014)

I believe it was only like this the first year, where the selection were pretty tough and the list of candidates was insanely large. Here, most computer sciences degree are in private schools. You have to take generic engineer studies oriented in computer sciences otherwise. Some are great but I found people with a private degree focus in computer sciences more skilled in general when I worked with them.

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