“When we want to fight against student precariousness, we do not increase university registration fees”, assured Emmanuel Macron in front of young people from Creuse (23).
On a visit to the Ahun agricultural high school, the President of the Republic denied having advocated the increase in fees for university students in mid-January: "Contrary to what I have read everywhere in the press, I I never said that”.
The Head of State even lets it be understood that his political adversaries could have exploited his remarks: “It seems that we are in the countryside, and therefore there are people who make you say things which are the opposite of what you you said".
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Yet Emmanuel Macron had declared in mid-January at the end of the congress of the conference of university presidents that "we will not be able to remain permanently in a system where higher education is priceless for almost all students where a third of students are considered to be scholarship holders and where, however, we have so much student insecurity, and a difficulty in financing a model much more financed by public money than anywhere in the world.
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