Five minutes to reach their room, not one more.
The bell has barely sounded when the 15 students in this class at La Fontenelle college, in Val-de-Ruz, Switzerland, are scattered in the corridors.
Amel and Daniel head to computer classes, Julie and Deborah head off to a French lesson.
This is the principle of level groups which prevails in the canton of Neuchâtel and other territories of French-speaking Switzerland such as Valais or Jura.
“It all started with the international Pisa survey of 2009. The results were not good,” says Jérôme Amez-Droz, secretary general of the training department, the equivalent of a local ministry of education.
The following year, we thought about the best method to raise standards and develop equal opportunities.
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