Professor Patricia Rached defended her Habilitation à diriger des recherches diploma or HDR in educational sciences focusing on academic guidance, on Monday, December 6, 2021, at Maison de la Recherche at University of Toulouse-Jean Jaurès. The HDR is the highest national diploma of Higher Education. It is required for supervising PhD students and applying for positions of Professeur(e), Directeur de recherche, or Directeur d’études. She carried out her research under the supervision of Professor Jean-François Marcel, Professeur des Universités in educational and training sciences and Director of the Graduate School “ED CLESCO” at University of Toulouse-Jean Jaurès.

Rached’s jury included 6 eminent professors:

- Professor Marguerite Altet from University of Nantes.
- Professor Dominique Broussal from University of Toulouse-Jean Jaurès.
- Professor Jean-Marie De Ketele from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Catholic University of Leuven).
- Professor Cécile Gardiès from University of Toulouse-Jean Jaurès.
- Professor Augustin Mutuale from Institut Catholique de Paris (Catholic University of Paris)
- Professor Liliane Pelletier from Lumière University Lyon 2.

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