taupe

Inherited from Old French taupe, inherited from Latin talpa.


PC

(education, in Tunisia) CP Initialism of Physique-Chimie. (Engineering stream)


doyen

fr-noun

doyen m (plural doyens, feminine doyenne)

Inherited from Old French deien, from Late Latin decānus, from Latin decem.


piquet

→ English: piquet

→ Italian: picchetto

(education) a school punishment in which a student has to remain standing for some time by a tree or a wall, usually in the corner of the classroom


TD

(colloquial, education) (Initialism of travaux dirigés.; tutorials


trimestre

desctree

→ Dutch: trimester
→ Indonesian: trimester


rentrée

Portuguese: rentrée

Dans 5 jours, c'est la rentrée.

Pour les jeunes, c'est la rentrée scolaire: beaucoup de parents accompagnent leurs jeunes enfants à l'école le jour de la rentrée des classes, et les patrons sont encouragés à leur accorder cette possibilité.

2015, William Edmiston, Annie Dumenil, La France contemporaine, Cengage Learning, →ISBN:

For children, it is the start of the new school year: many parents accompany their young children to school on the first day back, and bosses are encouraged to allow them to do so.

(education, administration) the return to school or work after a vacation (usually the summer break); start of the school year


licence

→ Turkish: lisans

→ Persian: لیسانس (lisâns)

Inherited from Old French licence, borrowed from Latin licentia.

(education) bachelor's degree (three-year long)


étude

→ Danish: etude

→ Dutch: etude

→ English: etude

→ Polish: etiuda

→ Russian: этю́д (etjúd), этю́дъ (etjúd) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
→ Kazakh: этюд (étüd)
→ Uzbek: etyud

→ Turkish: etüt

From Old French estude, borrowed from Latin studium.

study (room in a house intended for reading and writing)


colle

Inherited from Vulgar Latin colla, from Ancient Greek κόλλα (kólla, “glue”). Compare Italian colla, Portuguese and Spanish cola.

La khôlle (ou colle) est une interrogation orale d'une heure devant un tableau. On vous donne un exercice et vous avez pour mission de le résoudre (même si ce n'est pas le plus important).

2010, Alexandre Devaux, Tout ce qu'il faut savoir sur la prépa scientifique, Dunod, →ISBN, page 79:

The khôlle (or colle) is an hour-long oral examination in front of a blackboard. You are given an exercise and your mission is to solve it (although solving it is not the most important thing).

(France, education) oral examination at a prépa or during the PASS


fraude

Inherited from Middle French and Old French fraude (13th c.), a borrowing from Latin fraus, fraudem.


externe

fr-noun

externe m or f by sense (plural externes)

(education) (a school student who doesn't stay in his establishment for meals or at night)


passerelle

→ English: passerelle

→ German: Passerelle

desctree

→ Italian: passerella
→ Catalan: passarel·la
→ Spanish: pasarela

(higher education) bridging program, bridging course


doyenne

fr-noun

doyenne f (plural doyennes, masculine doyen)

(Canada, education) female dean at an educational establishment


contrôle

→ Catalan: control

→ Galician: control

→ Italian: controllo

desc

→ Portuguese: controlo, controle (chiefly Brazil), contrôlo (pre-reform spelling)

→ Romanian: control

→ Spanish: control

→ Turkish: kontrol

→ Persian: کنترل (kontorol)

An haplology of Middle French contrerole, a borrowing from Medieval Latin contrārotulum (“a counter-roll or register used to verify accounts”), from Latin contrā (“against, opposite”) + Latin rotulus, rotula (“roll, a little wheel”), diminutive of rota (“a wheel”).


crédit

Borrowed from Italian credito, from Latin crēditum.


tuteur

fr-noun

tuteur m (plural tuteurs, feminine tutrice)


MEQ

initialism

Ministre d'Éducation du Québec
Ministre d'Éducation du Québec#French

(Quebec, education) Initialism of Ministre d'Éducation du Québec.


décrochage

From décrocher + -age. Originating in Québec, this term has spread throughout the Francosphere, along with the related term décrocheur.

(education) the act of dropping out from school


séminaire

→ Romanian: seminar

→ Turkish: seminer


instituteur

fr-noun

instituteur m (plural instituteurs, feminine institutrice)

instituteurs (plural)
institutrice (feminine)

→ Dutch: instituteur

→ Romanian: institutor

(education, obsolete) primary school teacher


cours magistral

cours magistral m (plural cours magistraux)


ENS

école normale supérieure
w:école normale supérieure

(France, education) Initialism of école normale supérieure, a type of publicly funded higher education institution in France.


prépa

(France, education) Classe préparatoire aux grandes écoles


réorienter

réorienter (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
réorientant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
réorienté (participle past)
réoriente (first-person indicative present singular)
réorientes (indicative present second-person singular)
réoriente (indicative present singular third-person)
réorientons (first-person indicative plural present)
réorientez (indicative plural present second-person)
réorientent (indicative plural present third-person)
réorientais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
réorientais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
réorientait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
réorientions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
réorientiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
réorientaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
réorientai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
réorientas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
réorienta (historic indicative past singular third-person)
réorientâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
réorientâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
réorientèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
réorienterai (first-person future indicative singular)
réorienteras (future indicative second-person singular)
réorientera (future indicative singular third-person)
réorienterons (first-person future indicative plural)
réorienterez (future indicative plural second-person)
réorienteront (future indicative plural third-person)
réorienterais (conditional first-person singular)
réorienterais (conditional second-person singular)
réorienterait (conditional singular third-person)
réorienterions (conditional first-person plural)
réorienteriez (conditional plural second-person)
réorienteraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
réoriente (first-person present singular subjunctive)
réorientes (present second-person singular subjunctive)
réoriente (present singular subjunctive third-person)
réorientions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
réorientiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
réorientent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
réorientasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
réorientasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
réorientât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
réorientassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
réorientassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
réorientassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
réoriente (imperative second-person singular)
réorientons (first-person imperative plural)
réorientez (imperative plural second-person)


agrégation

agrégations (plural)
aggrégation (alternative archaic)

(education) a high-level competitive examination for the recruitment of teachers in France


bisser

bisser (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
bissant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
bissé (participle past)
bisse (first-person indicative present singular)
bisses (indicative present second-person singular)
bisse (indicative present singular third-person)
bissons (first-person indicative plural present)
bissez (indicative plural present second-person)
bissent (indicative plural present third-person)
bissais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
bissais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
bissait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
bissions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
bissiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
bissaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
bissai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
bissas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
bissa (historic indicative past singular third-person)
bissâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
bissâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
bissèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
bisserai (first-person future indicative singular)
bisseras (future indicative second-person singular)
bissera (future indicative singular third-person)
bisserons (first-person future indicative plural)
bisserez (future indicative plural second-person)
bisseront (future indicative plural third-person)
bisserais (conditional first-person singular)
bisserais (conditional second-person singular)
bisserait (conditional singular third-person)
bisserions (conditional first-person plural)
bisseriez (conditional plural second-person)
bisseraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
bisse (first-person present singular subjunctive)
bisses (present second-person singular subjunctive)
bisse (present singular subjunctive third-person)
bissions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
bissiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
bissent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
bissasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
bissasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
bissât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
bissassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
bissassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
bissassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
bisse (imperative second-person singular)
bissons (first-person imperative plural)
bissez (imperative plural second-person)

(transitive, Belgium, Burkina Faso, Congo, Mali, Rwanda, education) to repeat a year at school


cégep

Acronym of collège d’enseignement général et professionnel.

acronym

(Quebec, education) cégep (college in Québec)


cégépien

fr-noun

cégépien m (plural cégépiens, feminine cégépienne)

cégépiens (plural)
cégépienne (feminine)

(education, Quebec) a student who attend a cégep


archicube

archicube m or f by sense (plural archicubes)

École normale supérieure
école normale supérieure

(jargon, education) Graduate, former student at the École normale supérieure in Paris


hypotaupe

(education) a higher mathematics class that is one year below the taupe


PASS

parcours accès spécifique santé
parcours accès spécifique santé#French

(France, education) Initialism of parcours accès spécifique santé (“specific health access path”).


maître d'école

maître d'école m (plural maîtres d'école, feminine maîtresse d'école)

maîtres d'école (plural)
maîtresse d'école (feminine)


rentrée scolaire

rentrée scolaire f (plural rentrées scolaires)

(education) the return to school; the beginning of the new school year


année scolaire

année scolaire f (plural années scolaires)


année académique

année académique f (plural années académiques)


rentrée des classes

rentrée des classes f (plural rentrées des classes)

rentrée scolaire
rentrée scolaire#French


carte mémoire

carte mémoire f (plural cartes mémoires)


bourse d'excellence

bourse d'excellence f (plural bourses d'excellence)

(education) merit scholarship, fellowship


bourse d'études

bourse d'études f (plural bourses d'études)

bourses d'études (plural)
bourse d'étude (alternative)

(education) scholarship, stipend, student allowance


en présentiel

enseignement en présentiel

cours en présentiel

L'examen aura lieu en présentiel.


sous-khôlle

(France, education) oral exam at a prépa or especially during the PASS where the examinator is an older student


travaux pratiques

(education) practical, tutorial (lesson prepared so that a student can learn through exercises)


surgé

surveillant général
surveillant général#French

(education, historical, slang) clipping of surveillant général


demi-pensionnaire

demi-pensionnaire m or f by sense (plural demi-pensionnaires)

From demi-pension + -aire or demi + pensionnaire.

(education) day boarder (a school student who stays for lunch breaks and cannot leave his establishment at that time)


tronc commun

/tʁɔ̃ kɔ.mœ̃/

une matière du tronc commun

(education) core curriculum (courses or other components of an educational program which are foundational, prerequisite, or mandatory, as opposed to the elective, secondary, or variable components of a program)


billet de rentrée

billet de rentrée m (plural billets de rentrée)

(education, France) A ticket enabling a pupil to join a class after an absence.


EPE

(education) Initialism of éducation de la petite enfance (“early childhood education”): ECE


CROUS

w:fr:Centre régional des œuvres universitaires et scolaires

(France, education) acronym of Centre régional des œuvres universitaires et scolaires administration responsible for student accomodation, canteens, etc.