"France is dropping its universities": what about other European countries?

The question.

"We are completely abandoned by the government."

Iris, a literature student at a major Parisian university, is exhausted.

Like a large majority of young French people, she continues to follow distance learning courses despite the very gradual reopening of universities.

“I haven't had any face-to-face lessons for months.

I want to return to a more or less normal life, even masked, to see the end of the tunnel.

I can't take it anymore, ”she explains.

For her, as for many young people, students are the big ones forgotten by the Covid-19 crisis.

The Prime Minister, Jean Castex, announced last Thursday the resumption by half-groups of the tutorials in the first year from January 25, adding that he hoped then a gradual resumption of all the students.

But these announcements do not satisfy some players in academia.

On the contrary.

Several university presidents believe that the government has completely "dropped" teaching

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