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Covid-19: students from Créteil refuse to take their exams in lecture halls

2021-01-03T14:17:04.597Z


The partials of the 2nd year of eco-management will take place from this Monday in person. Students who fear contamination from


They fear a giant cluster in power which will begin this Monday on the benches of their university.

Students in the 2nd year of eco-management at the University of Paris-Est Créteil (Upec) have launched a petition on change.org to demand that their exams take place remotely from Monday, and not face-to-face as planned their direction.

Many other branches of Upec and other Ile-de-France universities organize the January exams remotely because of the Covid-19 epidemic.

Some combine exams on site and at home, such as in the 2nd year of the law degree (L2) at Upec.

But for the L2 in economics and management, everything will take place at university.

"The management of Upec makes the same mistake as in September with the UFR of law", indignant Sami

(the first name has been changed)

, 19, in L2 of eco-management.

The young man echoes the re-entry of students in the 2nd year of law that the university had organized in person, in Créteil (Val-de-Marne).

"Dangerous for our health"

The result: crowded lecture halls, students seated on the floor and even around the teacher's desk, corridors overflowing with students stuck together tightly, the speech of a teacher unconvinced by the usefulness of the mask ... All while the coronavirus continued to circulate.

The president of the university then announced that the courses would be taught remotely from the following week.

“Currently, the health crisis is far from over, worries Sami, taking care of his health all the more because he has asthma.

A new strain of the virus is circulating.

Most of the students saw a lot of people during these holidays.

Bringing us in, taking public transport, spending days next to each other during these exams is dangerous for our health.

"

He also denounces the lack of information from management on a possible health protocol: "Do we have to arrive in advance to spread out the flows and avoid crossings?"

Is social distancing planned?

If yes, how ?

We have little communication and very few responses to our requests.

"

Social distancing guaranteed, according to management

"All this adds to our anxiety, while many students like me have become mentally fragile with the epidemic and the confinements," testifies Clara

(the first name has been changed)

, 19, also in L2 of eco-management.

We will have to take transport, during peak hours in addition;

we will be close to 300 students together, while many have seen lots of people at Christmas and for New Year's Eve.

I haven't seen my grandmother and I am very careful because my mother is at risk.

"And the young woman recalled:" Technically, we have been taking our courses remotely for almost a year.

Nothing prevents us from also doing our exams from home.

"

“The management fears cheating, evokes Sami.

However, impossible to really cheat on our tests because they require above all to apply a logic.

If we haven't understood it, if we haven't worked, it doesn't change anything to be at home with the lessons at hand.

On the other hand, it is true that it can reassure us: in the event of blank memory, one can check a point in a course for example.

"

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L2 officials, solicited by several students and visibly annoyed by the petition, have just sent them an email three days before the exams assuring them that social distancing would be respected.

And they ask them “to avoid dispersing.

It would be much more helpful if you put all of your energy into your work and studying.

The management of Upec, contacted, was unable to answer our questions.

Source: leparis

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