France: Government Responds to Ongoing School Protests with Educational Reforms
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Money for schools, additional teachers and an end to the higher education admission system: France's government is launching an educational reform in the wake of the protests. The movement does not seem to go far enough.
More than five weeks after the start of the mobilization of high school students, the government, for the first time, has therefore dropped out of the ballast. To meet the demands, the first commitment of the executive: the reform of Parcoursup. Another commitment, 15,000 additional places will be created in higher education, far from the 250,000 they demand. By 2028, one goal: 28 students maximum in all classes of second. Nearly 500 posts will …
More than a month after the beginning of an intense social pulse in France between the students and the government, the latter offered on Monday the first measures, of a certain depth, to calm the youth outrage. Sébastien Lecornu’s executive proposed a reform of the controversial system of university selectivity (Parcoursup) and the creation of 15,000 new places in the universities. He also promised to put a ceiling of 28 as a maximum number of …
In particular, the government plans to replace the Parcoursup platform and to create university places, according to sources close to the file.
After weeks of protests, France's government is calling for billions of dollars for education, new teaching posts, and for the controversial higher education admission system.
For the first time since the beginning of the movement, the government has finally announced concrete measures for high school students on Monday, 26 October, but these remain far from the expectations of the latter, who continue to call for mobilization.
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