Students march over universities crisis

Students took to the streets of Paris recently to protest against the sorry state of French universities, which are suffering from overcrowding and a chronic lack of funding, reports The Local.

Several student unions called on members to march through Paris to show their displeasure at everything that is wrong with the creaking French university system. Overcrowding – there are 65,000 more students this year – lecturers that are not replaced, and researchers struggling for funding are just three of the issues that brought hundreds of students out on the streets of Paris.

They marched to the finance ministry to demand more funding. Student unions claim there’s a shortfall of around 30,000 teachers and researchers, needed to give adequate supervision to teachers. “It's the states responsibility to invest and they aren't. These cuts have an impact on students and we are feeling it especially harshly this year,” Sacha Feierabend, the secretary general of UNEF students’ union told The Local.
Full report on The Local site