Back to School for 11.6 Million Students, Cell Phones Banned in High School
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French schools start new year in shadow of summer cyberattack
Millions of pupils are returning to classrooms across France on Tuesday for the start of the new school year, with some schools forced to fall back on paper timetables and registers after a major cyberattack disrupted education systems over the summer.
This Tuesday, 11.6 million students are returning to France, marked by the ban on high school mobile phones and disruptions due to a cyber attack on National Education. If 28 academies are back in...
In addition to the ban on mobile phones in high school, this re-entry is marked by the consequences of a cyberattack targeting national education, which still affects the academies of Toulouse and Nantes, and the students who depend on it.
A majority of teachers do not have access to their mailbox because of the cyberattack that occurred this summer, which in particular complicates the call of students, regrets Joeffrey Renaud, teacher and representative of Snes-FSU, Monday on France Inter.
While a fraudulent intrusion into one of the National Education servers has disrupted the preparation for re-entry in several academies, the Rectorate of Rennes assures "not to have been touched for the moment".
Revealed at the end of July by the ministry, piracy led to the preventive suspension of many digital tools. If a return to normal was announced in 28 of the 30 academies, those of Toulouse and Nantes remain strongly disturbed. "We will make the call from paper lists. It is +Back to the future+", ironises with AFP Joeffrey Renaud, professor of history-geography in the Academy of Nantes and representative of Snes-FSU, the main union in the second …
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