50,000 students are already taking distance courses

The 400,000 French students who are currently deprived of school because of the coronavirus, from the Haut-Rhin to Corsica, via the Oise, are gradually starting to take distance courses. Above all, via digital workspaces, which have been very widespread for ten years in middle and high schools, whether public or private. But Jean-Michel Blanquer, the Minister of National Education, also praises the performance of the public distance education platform, the Cned. A free offer and "complementary" to that offered locally by teachers, he said Thursday afternoon, traveling to Chasseneuil-du-Poitou (Vienne), headquarters of Cned, close to the Futuroscope leisure park.

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More accustomed to providing courses to sick children or traveling children, Michel Reverchon-Billot, the director general of Cned, reported Thursday of 60,000 registrations on the platform "My class at home", including 50,000 students. A timid increase in load, many teachers

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