NOT ENOUGH TEACHERS
“Our college students are shedding out on research time. Some faculties haven’t got consuming water. We’re not equal to different departments,” she mentioned, blaming shortages on authorities cuts of three,256 instructor positions nationwide in 2026.
In Pantin, a city on the northeastern fringe of Paris, instructor Dilan Roche joined her college students as they protested exterior their college this week to help their calls for and shield them from the police.
“What they wrote on banners, we wrote in a letter to the native schooling authority: overcrowded lessons, no nurses, no social employees – which is problematic for college kids with studying difficulties, many residing in precarity,” she mentioned.
Whereas France ranks in the course of OECD nations for spending on schooling, the typical expenditure per secondary college pupil has remained little modified during the last decade, standing at €11,660 in 2024 and €11,910 in 2010, in line with schooling ministry knowledge.
The final nationwide highschool protest motion on this scale demanding extra funding got here within the Nineties. That adopted the federal government sharply increasing entry to the baccalauréat, the school-leaving examination that sometimes paves the way in which to school, with out offering faculties with enough extra assets, mentioned Professor Clemence Cardon-Quint at Paul Valery College, who researches schooling funding.
The motion received a rise in funding, however spending per pupil later stagnated regardless of rising calls for on faculties.
Cardon-Quint mentioned college students and lecturers have taken on extra tasks through the years, together with navigating Parcoursup, the college admissions system launched in 2018 and criticised by some college students and lecturers as opaque and discriminatory.
“In a interval of budgetary restraint, it’s harder to cut back inequalities,” mentioned Cardon-Quint.
