The French student body has positively welcomed the new concrete measures proposed this afternoon by the Government to try to put an end to several weeks of protests against the reform of secondary education, although it insists that it is necessary to continue with the mobilizations, since the reforms are still under review and for now there are no guarantees about when or how they will be implemented.
"We are going to go all the way because it is still not entirely satisfactory," said the vice president of the organization Les Lycéens, Louis Letoublon, after the meeting held with the Prime Minister, Sebastien Lecornu, at the Matignon headquarters. His colleague and president of the Renouveau Lycéen council, Nathanael Combay, demands "concrete results" before calling off the protests.
After the meeting with Lecornu at Matignon, activist and influencer Mathilde Fouqué explained to the French media that the Executive is currently working on five main initiatives.
The central axis of the plan is the replacement or a deep reform of the functioning system of Parcoursup, the controversial platform that articulates the complex access to higher education and that has generated widespread rejection among students and teachers, "will be nothing more than a new exercise in deception."
The package also includes the creation of 15,000 new places in higher education to alleviate overcrowding in classrooms, along with a modernization program for infrastructure valued at 5 billion euros (1 billion allocated for the renovation of universities until 2031 and the rest channeled as loans for institutes). Finally, the Government is considering that student scholarships be linked to inflation.