Thirty students occupy an administrative building in order to obtain the registration of 61 young people remained without assignment at the beginning.
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“We will go to the inscriptions!”, chant several tens of students, gathered on Friday, November 12 in the evening, at the foot of the very symbolic building grapple – the name of the former Dean in May 1968 – of the University Paris-Nanterre. Since October 27, some thirty students occupy the place, at the and 8 e stages, to defend “the right to study” of 61 young people who n ‘were able to start from curriculum at this institution, for lack of being admitted to the start.
Called movement of “without Fac”, this action is part of the particular context of the fall of the school year 2021 which sees in greater number the graduates of the baccalaureate but also of a license – diplomas obtained in the middle of health with a recourse more broad at continuous control.
While the Presidency of the University refuses, for the time being, to commit to registering these 61 students on the ground that it lacks places to welcome them as a master’s degree, the argument does not hold , in the eyes of the occupants, who ask to open a negotiation: 61 more than 30,000 students, “it would be just adding one to two people per die, or a maximum of four in Master of Psychology”, calculates one of the occupants of the Building, Barthélémy Piron, elected to the university board and member of the UNEF National Office.
“We proposed a week ago that 40 students stay in Nanterre and 21 others could be welcomed in another university in Ile-de-France, continues the union representative. The Presidency did not address us No answer and refuses to receive us. “Barthélémy Piron quotes Lyon-II University, where students briefly held the premises on 8 November, obtaining the next day” a written commitment of the President to register in Master a majority of the 16 files without assignment “.
University already underflapping
“Every year, several thousand students are denied the basic right to be able to study, because of the selection set up at the entrance of the university. This selection touches, in the first place, students from the Popular classes “, denounce the 370 signatories of a Tribune initiated by teachers, supports” without FAC “, published in Libération on 11 November.
In a statement dated November 8, the president, Philippe Gervais-Lambony, is surprised that Nanterre be “became a target, judged responsible for this situation”, while the university is “one of the most sub-frader At the national level, with a ratio of 2.7 teachers holding 100 students and a subframe stronger in terms of administrative staff “. Since the start of the school year, he has been adding, the one that is currently “accused of being one of the most selective and exclusive of France” is “able to solve nearly 300 situations of students without assignment”, “,” Always beyond its reception capabilities and in premises already overloaded “.
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