Less stress from face-to-face exams?
Student at a private university in Paris (2014)
Photo: AFP
Students in France have to take their intermediate exams from the beginning of January in person despite the rapidly increasing corona infections.
The majority of this is what the students want, said university minister Frédérique Vidal on Wednesday the broadcaster “France info”.
The universities do everything to enable the exams to run as smoothly as possible.
However, examinations could also be postponed in individual cases.
This applies, for example, if there are a particularly large number of illnesses in a course, said the minister.
A fundamental adherence to the fixed attendance dates, however, prevents students from getting into additional stress.
92 percent of them are vaccinated.
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Student groups had sounded the alarm because they feared the exams would spread infections.
They argue that even students who are ill or who have been declared contact persons could feel compelled to take the exams, because otherwise they could face disadvantages in their studies.
Applying for a master’s degree is only possible with timely results of the intermediate examinations.
Although France has only just tightened its restrictions in view of the rapidly increasing number of corona infections, school operations should also start again on January 3rd as planned after the holidays.
According to the government, there should be no distance learning.
There was criticism of this course from the teaching staff.
him / dpa