With the introduction of the reform called 'LMD' (Licence, Master, Doctorat), the French universities started a process that, in according to its idealizing, will facilitate de harmonization of the European curriculum and the international mobility of the students. However, one more deep analysis shows that this reform is guided by others logic that support, more particularly, the development of the business competition among the educational institutions and the commodification of the higher education. With this reform, the preoccupation about democratization of the higher education looks to be completely disappeared and the place given to the free and autonomous research, that in the other hand is in the basis of the idea about university, to be reduced to the strict minimum, owing to, among other things, the development of an utilitarian and commercial conception of both, education and research.
France; University reform; LMD; Democratization; Research autonomy
