Sporadic gatherings were held on Thursday to call “an emergency plan” against precariousness and dropout in licenses, “real subjects” that struggle to emerge in the presidential campaign.
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At the call of several youth organizations, sporadic gatherings of a few hundred students were held in about twenty cities, including Strasbourg, Grenoble and Montpellier, Thursday, February 3, for the adoption of ” An emergency plan “and to” replicate “with the responsibly by the Head of State on January 13, which had suggested – before denying – that an increase in registration fees at the university would be timely.
In Paris, some 200 students found themselves before the headquarters of the Regional Center for Academic and School Works, under the banner of an Intersyndical composed of UNEF, the Alternative, Solidarity-Student · E · S, High school life and youth movements of the Socialist Party, from Europe Ecology-Les Verts, the French Communist Party and France unsuitable.
The fear of a sprouting privatization of higher education has led Pauline Lebaron to demonstrate, even if the Parisian gathering has remained limited. “It is a background trend, which has manifested itself visibly when the registration fees for foreign students have been multiplied by 16 in 2018, says UNF militant, but it is also observed in semi- institutions. Public and Sciences Po “, where the Master’s registration can now reach 18,000 euros the year at the highest rate – especially for foreign students.
” Living with dignity “
The Ministry of Higher Education also allows “more and more easily” to private courses to benefit from the degree and master degree, previously university-kept hunting. At a time when the population peak of the 2000s requires pushing the walls of the Facs, “private schools charge registrations at 6,000 euros, with a recognition of the State, which sees it the opportunity to develop the offer. training without having to create new places, “analyzes the student.
“We wanted to make the shot with these mobilizations everywhere in France,” says Naïm Shili, National Secretary of the Alternative, who wants to believe that there would be “a student response if an increase in registration fees touched University “. For Camille Hachez, member of the young ecologists, “the future candidate Macron would like to confine us again, this time in our social environment,” she denounces: “When we see the effects of student debt in the Anglo-Saxon countries, We can not think that it can be a model for us. “
For the Intersyndical, the “real subjects” that are precariousness and the licensed stall must be put on the table, with the adoption of an emergency plan passing through an increase in the amount of the scholarships and a Enlargement of their beneficiaries, the return of the meal to 1 euro for all and an increase in housing aid. It also pleads for the creation of an autonomy allowance, which would allow students to “live with dignity” while fully taking advantage of “this place of emancipation accessible to all” that must remain universities.