Hi everybobdy!
I just want to share my experience of french ATC training. I think that our training is very complete concerning aviation knowledge. I had to attend different lessons: english, aerodynamics, avionics, meteorology, regulation (for ATC and the bases for public transport), telecommunication (applied to ATC), Aeronautical Information Service, airport and environment, engines, aircraft recognition, navigation, radar, safety, and so on... I am sure I forget other lessons I don't remember or I don't know how to translate.
I could also have got my PPL (it's included in our training so that we know how it is on the other side) if only I wouldn't have been sick in a small plane.
During the english classes, I studied general english as well as aeronautical english( including emergency and unusual situations, live traffic from different english speaking countries or not).
Now that I am working in an airport I still have english lessons because I have to maintain my english level.
I think our training isn't so bad because when we finally work on an airfield or in an ACC we aren't just stupid ATCs who do their jobs whithout knowing anything else which is linked to it (even if sometimes pilots think we are stupid...).