Nathanaël Friant
Belgium
Université de Mons
Nathanaël Friant holds a PhD in education and is a teaching assistant at the School Administration Institute, University of Mons, Belgium. His research themes are the analysis of educational systems from an equity point of view and the study of school segregation in French-speaking Belgium.
Marc Demeuse
Belgium
Université de Mons
Psychologist and statistician, Marc Demeuse is full professor at the University of Mons (Belgium), in the department of psychology and educational sciences. He heads the schools Administration Institute and is involved in several projects and research networks at European level. He participated, in the capacity of expert, in producing the first European indicators for assessing school education quality (2000) and steered the development of a set of indicators of equity of education systems in Europe. A part of his research is given to targeted policies (ZEP, positive discrimination…), notably of a comparative nature. He has a role of expert in various commissions and steering committees of the French-speaking, Belgian education system (steering commission, continuing training for teachers).