France is spending 4.4 billion euros on a new modern university campusdesigned to rival Cambridge and Harvard as one of the world's best. The Paris-Saclay super-campus is France's answer to years of declinein higher education.
法国政府计划斥资44亿欧元新建一所可与剑桥和哈佛相媲美的世界顶级大学。据悉，法国此举是为了遏制本国高等教育每况愈下之势而采取的对策。
"Our goal is to rankamong the top 10 universities in the world," said Herve Le Riche, who heads the project. The new campus will start opening its doors in 2015 as a grouping of 23 universities, colleges and research institutes.
“我们的目标是跻身全球顶级大学前10位，”该项目负责人埃尔韦-勒-里什说。新的“超级大学”将在2015年建成，由23所综合性大学、高等专科学院和科研院所组成。
New laboratories, amphitheatres, student housing along with shops and transportwill be built with a view to making France a destinationfor some of the best and brightest who now head to US and British universities.
法国将建造新的实验室、露天剧场、学生公寓及商店和交通设施，为的是留住和吸引那些最出色、优秀的人才。眼下，他们纷纷前往美国和英国大学深造。