"More than seven thousand" schoolboys "are taught by the invisible masters." In February 1940 Le Figaro gave the floor to Mr. Gastinel, director of the correspondence education structure, created by decree on December 2, 1939. There was an emergency: after the declaration of war, National Education was largely disorganized: pupils displaced, teachers mobilized, establishments requisitioned.
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This ancestor of the National Center for Distance Education (Cned), which we imagine then provisional, aims to allow students to go to the end of their year of study. He took his cue from the many private correspondence courses that have flourished since the previous century, such as the Hattemer course created in 1885.
It will last, renewed in 1944 and until today. The Minister of National Education, Jean-Michel Blanquer, notably requests him to ensure the continuity of education despite the pandemic and the closure decided Thursday evening of schools and
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