HOGWASH!! My Friends who studied at Brown, and Harvard as well as in French Unioversities indicated that the US Ivy League schools lagged behind French Universities on average about 2 years The educational system in France is so far ahead of the U.S. because it starts in the primary grades with learning multiple languages, and it gears it's education towards future productivity rather than just the basic reading writing and arithmetic.The US System will never catch the French because of exhorbitant costs caused by the broken Capitalist model that exists here.Only the wealthy can afford an Ivy league education, the rest are relegated to either no College, or an educational system designed for Revenue through it's Athletics.

What we expect from France 24 is a bit more research and a bit more knowledge of the French specificities than that report on French universities. The fact that the French higher education system is divided between internationally-competitive, highly-selective, well-funded small-size colleges called "Grandes Ecoles", which train France's elite, and the under-funded, decayed and unselective 'Universities' is totally absent from that report. Paris 6 is NOT the best institution of higher learning in France, there are schools like HEC, ENA, ENS, Sciences-Po, which fare in the top ranks of other rankings like the Financial Times' or the Times Higher Education's.

So yes, there's a World Bank study showing that French universities do not fare well, but France 24's job is to investigate further and show the biases of that study, and explain the whys and wherefores.