Periodic protection will be free at the start of the next school year for all students, the Minister of Higher Education, Frédérique Vidal, announced on Tuesday February 23. A decision that is part of the fight against the precariousness of young people. In the coming weeks, the university residences of the Crous and the university […]
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During the health crisis, they listen to other students
Florian Tirana, 24: “It’s a way to free speech” I am a student in engineering school, in environmental policy. I am a volunteer in the association since 2018 and am currently the President of Nightline France. Like many, I discovered the association through posters in the toilets. I liked the goal, I found it to […]
“Mr. President, at 19, I feel like I’m dead”
Tuesday January 12, late morning. Heïdi Soupault has just taken his European Union law exam, remotely, behind his computer screen in his student room. Here it is already necessary to dive back into the revisions of comparative politics, always through the screen. The student, in her second year at Sciences-Po Strasbourg, feels ” truly bad […]
Covid-19: the “shame” of students who have no more to eat
By zero degrees, the tail follows, for 300 meters, the maze of streets of this 13e district in perpetual metamorphosis. A blue T-shirt bearing the logo of the Linkee association over their down jacket, volunteers line up, thermos in hand, distributing drinks and warm words. At the head, we check the student cards with a […]
Covid-19: how to organize the return of students to university one day a week
The students will return to the benches of the university. Forced since the end of October to follow their courses by interposed screens, they will be able to return one day a week in lecture halls limited by a 20% gauge. “A student must have the same rights as an employee”, justified Emmanuel Macron, bearer […]
“Psychic check”, meal for one euro, face-to-face… Emmanuel Macron’s announcements for students
“A student must have the same rights as an employee”. Emmanuel Macron wished, Thursday, January 21, that students can return to attend face-to-face classes at the university one day a week, and have access to two meals a day for the price of one euro per meal in U restaurants. → DEBATE. Covid-19: can we […]
Majority urges government to act against unhappiness at university
Tuesday January 12, during the weekly meeting of the parliamentary group La République en Marche, Jean Castex faced a salvo of arrests: the parliamentarians worried about the distress of the students, confronted with the isolation and the precariousness since the start of the health crisis. A few days earlier, Saturday, January 9, the suicide attempt […]
Higher education, a profitable investment?
At the time of choice, vertigo. Thousands of training courses are available to final year students, invited from Wednesday January 20 to register on Parcoursup. The time to choose studies, the time for questions also for these young people and their families, with a host of parameters to weigh the more and the less of […]
“College” in distance, “prep” in face-to-face, are inequalities widening?
Thursday, October 29, while France moved back into confinement, Jean-Michel Blanquer announced that high schools remained open. That day, nothing had been said about the preparatory classes and the BTS. It was Gabriel Attal, the government spokesperson, who had specified on social networks the maintenance of face-to-face courses for these students. Preparatory classes with the […]
Strong emotion after the suicide attempt of a student from Lyon
In Lyon, which had seen a student immolate himself at the end of 2019 to denounce his living conditions, the shock wave spread, after the suicide attempt of another young person, Saturday, January 9. The young man, enrolled at the University Jean-Moulin Lyon 3, defeated himself from the fourth floor of his city U. He […]