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The École Pratique des Hautes Études is a university in Paris, France. It is part of the University of Paris.
The EPHE was created on July 31, 1868, by a decree of Victor Duruy, French Minister of Public Education, and is presently, "a grand institution of higher learning" according to the French Ministry of Education. In 1975, its VI Section (Sciences Économiques et Sociales) gained autonomy and became an independent higher education institution, the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. The E.H.E.S.S. was actualiy created after WWII within the Ecole Pratique as a social sciences section. It was developed through the 60's, mainly with the help of Foundation Ford support, and played a part of American influence in Europe since. As an independent school, the E.H.E.S.S. is still tied to the E.P.H.E.
The lessons are given at EPHE by high level researchers called directeurs d'études. The conférences or seminars are accessible to all. EPHE delivers proper diplomas, as well as national diplomas of third cycle (master, the former DEA, and doctorate).
The school is divided into three sections:
- Life and earth sciences
- Historical and philological sciences (also known as "fourth section");
- Religious sciences (founded in 1886).
It supports and rules two independent institutes, whom the European Institute of Religious Studies, or Institut Européen en Sciences des Religions, founded upon a project elaborated and submitted to the French authorities by the philosopher and former Che Guevara activist Regis Debray, who oriented his work toward a rather religious social reflexion.
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"École Pratique des Hautes Études"