As director of the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris, Richard Descoings needed more than a decade to remold that elite bastion of the French ruling class into a more egalitarian and international ...

Once I left Sciences Po, gone were the days of mandatory class attendance. Yet the days of aimless ruminations born out of a need to reaffirm one’s identity in the halls of yet a new institution were ...

Poor and ethnic-minority students selected through what is called "positive discrimination" are thriving at an elite French university, according to a report by one of its academics. L’Institut ...

Paris has felt surprisingly apolitical these last few months. But something changed: Students occupied one of France’s most elite universities. A student leads a chant on the street in front of ...

On 24 March 2026, President of the European Council, António Costa, held a speech at the Paris School of International Affairs (SciencesPo).

PARIS, May 3 (Reuters) - Police in Paris entered France's prestigious Sciences Po university on Friday and removed student activists who had occupied its buildings overnight in protest against ...

The president of one of France’s top universities is temporarily stepping down following domestic violence allegations that sparked a student protest. Mathias Vicherat, the president of Sciences Po, ...

French police evacuate pro-Palestinian students from Sciences Po after overnight sit-in Police in Paris entered France's prestigious Sciences Po university on Friday and removed student activists who ...

Mathias Vicherat, the director of Sciences Po, has exchanged accusations of domestic violence with his partner. The police are investigating. By Juliette Guéron-Gabrielle Reporting from Paris The ...