The Ministry of Education set up a “Ukrainian cell” at the beginning of March, which works every day to anticipate the reception of Ukrainian children in classes in France, schools, colleges and high schools.
According to the latest figures from this cell installed rue de Grenelle, 5266 students are currently enrolled in France, a figure
“multiplied by 20 since March 8”
, we explain to the ministry.
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In detail, these students are distributed for 3301 in schools, 1508 in colleges and 439 in high schools.
The academies that welcome the most children are those of Nice, Versailles or Strasbourg.
In the very short term, perhaps as early as next week, there could be 10,000 schoolchildren, according to the ministry, which emphasizes
"still having reception capacity".
"This Ukraine cell was set up from the start of the conflict to allow all National Education staff to mobilize to anticipate the reception and schooling of Ukrainian students"
, Florentine Petit explained to the press. , Head of Department at the Delegation for European and International Relations and Cooperation (Dreic).
A platform for teachers
“On a daily basis, we review the situation with the minister, with information from central departments and academies on reception and schooling, an update on international affairs, financial support or access to educational resources”
, she added.
For Marion Mallet-Petiot, head of the office of nursery and elementary schools at the General Directorate of School Education (Dgesco),
“welcoming and schooling non-native children is not at all new in the territory.
What is new is the war situation and the number of children, who are arriving in greater numbers in a much shorter time than the previous waves of migration that we may have had before,”
she explains.
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“A platform was created with experts, with the idea of providing teachers with as much information as possible to better welcome, better educate and allow a return to a form of normality at school which constitutes a reassuring framework for children when they arrive from their country”
, according to Marion Mallet-Petiot.
The goal is to
"prepare to welcome, to teach taking into account the needs of these children who do not speak French and who are going to learn French, and then it is to keep a point of vigilance, to observe, to work with all the partners of the school to accompany this new schooling
," she says.
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