2.2) Edgar Faure law
The framework law on higher education of 1968, known as the Edgar Faure law, created a new type of institution, or a Public Establishment of Scientific and Cultural Character (EPCSC) (p.32). The former faculties by this law were replaced with education and research units (UFR) which were autonomous, involved the participation of all the players in the university community and multidisciplinary. However, higher education continued to be divided into two separate blocks: the grandes écoles, educating the nation’s senior executives and the universities, which were effectively “UFR federations”. Another important point of this law is to give more autonomy to the universities, after the contestations of May 1968 (election of president, presence of students in the councils).