The protest continues in the streets. On Tuesday, in the rain but in song, teachers joined high school students and university students for a new day of mobilization.
This announcement adds to measures already presented by the government on October 26. Those measures, which included 15,000 places in higher education, did not appear to satisfy the student unions.
The gap with the demand of student organizations remains considerable. Mobilized since mid-September, they are calling for 250,000 additional places in universities, a figure far removed from that of the government.
Youth organizations and unions cited this figure to the press on Monday evening, after leaving the first meeting of the Parcoursup committee.
Another bill, introduced after revelations of abuses in for-profit institutions, aims to regulate private higher education. Adopted by the Senate in June, it has just been placed on the agenda of the National Assembly, whose schedule is already full.
On Thursday, the government said it wanted to “put an end” to violence near high schools. It wants “systematic” referral to the courts for acts targeting National Education staff in the context of the high school student movement.