He got it a little bad. Simon (the first name has been changed at the request of the person concerned), a French student living in Lille, enrolled in dentistry at Europe-Eduss, a private school located in Mouscron, Belgium, a few kilometers from France . “I was very happy to be accepted. It was enough to send a file and a cover letter. But I quickly changed my mind, I fell from the clouds ”, explains Simon, who believes that the quality “Is not at the rendezvous”. “We were sold small classes, but there are many of us. The teachers, in video, read their slides and do not help us. ” Especially when he thought he was “100% safe” to be able to practice in France with his future diploma, he discovered that this prospect would be subject to a large part of the unknown.
Established in Mouscron since 2019, Europe-Eduss attracts French students with a promise: that of a “European diploma, recognized in France”, allowing its holder to practice the profession of dentist. “98% of our students graduate”, we read on the website of this school, whose campus is located three kilometers from the French border, ten minutes from Tourcoing (North). This year, they are 80 enrolled in the first year.
The school targets young people who have not succeeded in accessing medical studies in France: a promising niche, while the reform of the first year of health studies arouses many disappointments and fears among candidates, while maintaining a high selection rate at the end of the first year. The expatriation of “disappointed” medical studies in France is nothing new. Each year, dozens of young French people go to train in medicine or dentistry in French-speaking courses in Romania, Spain or Hungary, taking advantage of more advantageous access methods.
Europe-Eduss is riding this trend, offering a two-year training course in Belgium followed by three years in Malta, within the United Campus of Malta (UCM). All this comes at a price: each year spent at Mouscron costs 12,342 euros to students – most often to their parents. They will then have to pay 10,000 euros per year in Malta to win the cup, the viaticum supposed to pave the way for the profession of dental surgeon: the diploma.
Relentless power struggle
But what is it worth? The teaching of this private school is not recognized by the Belgian authorities. It does not give access to any Belgian diploma, and is not subject to any control. Hence the partnership with the Maltese institution.
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