Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Pâtisserie: The Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Pâtisserie, located in Yssingeaux, France, offers French Pastry and Baking Arts classes taught in French or in English. Since 1984, ENSP has been recognized by the top pastry professionals worldwide as France’s leading school in pastry and baking arts.
Almost 30 years of solid experience in transmitting best practices and skills to both prestigious chefs and students from all over the world. The school is owned by Yves Thuries and Alain Ducasse who are two of the most influential chefs in the culinary world today.
Highly-Skilled & Professional Instructors: Our programs are delivered by a team of highly skilled professional instructors in a top notch environment utilizing state of the art equipment and upscale ingredients. Our classes are limited to 12 participants maximum with one aim in mind: Total success of our students.
At the end of our programs we deliver a certificate which is highly recognized by worldwide professionals.
Year-Round & Summer Culinary Arts Programs:
Superior French Pastry Arts Diploma: • 2 months practical training + 2 months of internship
French Bakery Arts: • 2 months practical training + 1 month optional internship
French Pastry Campus Program: • 2 months practical training + 1 month internship
Pastry Arts Master Class: • Duration: 1 or 2 days
Additional Features:
- 9 fully equipped laboratories, each dedicated to a different pastry discipline (pastry, ice cream, chocolate, confectionery, bakery, catering...).
- 1 state of the art amphitheatre (seating 84) equipped with a modular kitchen laboratory, video and audio devices.
- Located in a completely renovated castle in 2009
- 28 high-standard rooms with high speed internet access
- A restaurant seating 90
- Lounge bar, conference rooms, library
- Nearby swimming pool, tennis courts, fitness center and forest trails
Altiplano Training offers a unique French summer school for children and adults in Mens in the south east of France. Prefaucon Farm provides a stimulating, and friendly and fun environment which allows you to develop your linguistic ability. After your French lessons you will put what you learn into practice by living and eating with a French family, and learning about the French way of life. Mens is located 40min south of Grenoble and 2 hrs south of Lyon. Here you stay with a local family, discuss life & politics and farming and 'Europe', and enjoy the atmosphere and live music in the cafés. Adults can also take craft courses in pottery, felt-making, watercolour painting, painting furniture, organic cookery, medicinal plants and “green” construction techniques are all possible: all in French! Popular sports and activities include walking, mountain biking, windsurfing & kite surfing, horse riding and paragliding. Courses in these sports are also available.
A 5-day immersion course where you are immersed in French life and culture (7 nights accommodation).
Adults can study the French language with us or help out on the farm, or follow their own activity program.
Children are looked after by their own French language teacher and have their own program of activities and classes with local children, each day, so they learn to use the French language naturally.
Founded in 1965, Paris American Academy (PAA) is an accredited arts & design school located less than a kilometer from Notre-Dame Cathedral in the famous Latin Quarter of Paris.
We offer intensive summer programs in the subjects of fashion, interior design, fine arts and creative writing. Our summer courses last for four weeks and are all taught in English. A Survival French course is included in the program.
In addition, the English Language Institute at Paris American Academy (ELI PAA) offers an intensive 4-week English course year-round.
During the past forty years, students and professions from thirty five nationalities have participated in either the intensive short-term seminars or attended a longer four month Spring term or a three year curriculum.
PAA has formed a unique teaching staff comprised of academics, qualified professionals, guest artists and visiting professors. Students benefit from a personalized learning environment created by a student instructor ratio of one to five and small class numbers.
Each of the summer workshops can be booked with or without accommodation. Accommodation is available in local three star hotels or private furnished apartments.
- Fashion (with specializations in Design Process or Couture Techniques or Fashion Merchandising & Communication)
- Interior Design
- Creative Writing
- Fine Arts
The language of instruction is English. Our summer courses include Survival French lessons.
In addition, we offer an intensive, 4-week English course for international students and native English students of elementary to advanced levels.
• Would you like to study at a prestigious culinary arts school in France this summer? Situated in Argenteuil near Paris. Ducasse Education was founded by Alain Ducasse - the legendary award-winning chef & restauranteur, whose restaurants had a total of 21 Michelin stars in 2014.
• In addition to our Argenteuil school, we also have a training center in Yssingeaux, in the Haute-Loire department in south-central France.
• Ducasse Education offers discovery programs in English or French in summer and year-round for serious amateurs, career-changers or future entrepreneurs aiming to open a restaurant or other food-related service.
• The Summer and Spring Pastry Arts courses are intensive training programs which allow you to discover basic professional techniques and knowledge needed to enter in the professional world of culinary and pastry arts.
• French culinary students and professional chefs alike have benefited from the highest level of personal training offered through the programs of Alain Ducasse for the past 12 years.
• This is the same expertise that has created the long list of Michelin-starred restaurants that includes the Louis XV in Monaco, the Plaza Athenée in Paris and the Dorchester in London, among 25 other restaurants in 8 countries across the world.
French Pastry Campus (Summer & Spring Programs) • Taught in English
• 2-month skills-building training & a 1-month optional internship
• Summer Session in June-September
• Spring Session in March-May
Year-round Culinary / Pastry Arts Programs: • Culinary Arts Diploma
• Superior Culinary Arts Diploma
• Bachelor Degree in Culinary Arts
• Bachelor Degree in French Pastry Arts
• French Pastry Arts Diploma
• Superior French Pastry Arts Diploma
• French Chocolate & Confectionery Arts
• French Bakery Arts
Based in the heart of Paris, just off the Champs Elysees, EFAP Summer School welcomes international students from New York, Seoul, Zagreb, Toronto, Rome and all around the world to come and discover Paris during the lively month of June.
We offer combo programs in Paris & Bordeaux providing international students the exciting opportunity to follow business and communication courses in English and experience French culture first hand.
Study options include International Marketing, Luxury Brand Management, and Documentary Filmmaking.
Taught in English, these programs are tailor-made to satisfy students from all over the world.
Family-friendly Courses at France Langue & Culture on the French Riviera - Summer 2024
Courses / Programs
• France Langue & Culture is a family-friendly language school providing French summer classes on the French Riviera for adults, seniors, families, teens & children.
• Since our school was established in 1977, thousands of adults and young people from all over the world have attended our summer language courses in Saint Raphael on the Mediterranean coastline of south-east France.
• The school director is Edmond de Saenger, a former French language professor and native to the region.
• Saint Raphael has lots to offer and is ideally situated in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (French Riviera) region, 20 km from St-Tropez, 25 km from Cannes and 60 km from Nice.
• Whether you wish to walk along sandy beaches, take a visit to nearby vineyards or the vast Provence-Alpes mountainous range, the French Riviera region has everything you are looking for.
• Besides golf, tennis, windsurfing and aerobics, which we can arrange for you through the school's auspices, we can also organise additional activities such as squash, mountain-bike riding, diving just off the coast, sailing, horseback riding and much more...
• Students receive a Certificate of Studies and Attendances at the end of your language course as long as you have very good attendance.
Testimonial: "..I would recommend it to anyone, because there is a lovely atmosphere, and the teachers are so helpful in targeting exactly what you need to improve on."
- Lizzie, UK
French summer classes for adults, seniors & families in June, July & August 2024: - 1 to 4-week sessions
• French Courses for all levels (beginner to advanced)
• General French course
• Intensive French course
• High Intensive French
• 2-week Crash Courses for absolute beginners
• French Courses for families
• Group French Courses
• Private French lessons / One-to-one tutoring with teacher
• Seminar for French language teachers
• Children's Summer camps (ages 6-17)
• French Cultural Courses (Wine tasting, excursions on the Riviera)
Spring / Winter French courses: Special one-to-one and two-to-one classes.
Summer Songwriting Course with Mike Batt at French House Party, Carcassonne
Courses / Programs
• Recommended in the book “The 100 Best Worldwide Vacations to Enrich Your Life”, French House Party, based at a chic house on the outskirts of Carcassonne, South-West France offers all-inclusive residential tutored breaks.
• French House Party's 4-day Residential Summer Songwriting course features masterclasses led by one of contemporary music's most acclaimed and productive original musical lyricists – the internationally-successful British singer-songwriter / producer / arranger (and all-round remarkable Maestro!) - Mike Batt LVO.
• We are delighted to offer songwriters-in-residence a unique and exclusive opportunity to spend an extended weekend (Friday-Monday) with the legendary Mike Batt.
Mike's list of hits include the multi-million selling Bright Eyes from the film Watership Down (No. 1 in six countries for Art Garfunkel), A Winter's Tale for David Essex, The Phantom of the Opera title track for Andrew Lloyd-Webber's musical and countless songs for his 'discovery' Katie Melua, for whom he spent a decade composing and producing as her manager.
• French House Party offers the ultimate in customer care and personal attention during our residential courses which are led by superior and award-winning instructors. All classes are conducted in English.
• Situated in the Languedoc-Roussillon region, Carcassonne is only 50 miles from Toulouse International Airport. Ryanair also fly directly to Carcassonne from the UK, Ireland, Belgium, and other European airports.
Testimonial: "The whole weekend was heavenly.”
- Sally McDonald