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Parents wait to collect their children from a school in the French town of Souffelweyersheim, in the east of France, after an assailant wounded two girls aged six and 11 in a knife attack near the premises. The man was later arrested. The girls' wounds are not deemed serious. IMAGES (VIDI34PP789_EN)
Images from the "Les Sablons" school where a 15-year-old teenager was beaten up by several people on Thursday afternoon as he left his secondary school in Viry-Chatillon, south of Paris, and has since been hospitalised with a life-threatening condition. IMAGES
In a show of support for a principal threatened with a knife by a student on Friday, the French Minister of National Education, Nicole Belloubet met with staff at the secondary school, before participating in a round table on school security at Chenove town hall, near Dijon, in eastern France. IMAGES
French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal and his new Education Minister, Amelie Oudea-Castera, visit a secondary school in Andresy, Yvelines, near Paris, as part of the 'knowledge shock', a wide-ranging package of reforms aimed at raising students' academic standards. (COMPLETES VIDI34ER4ZY_EN) IMAGES
Following a damming Pisa report card for French pupils, Education Minister Gabriel Attal wants to entry to high school be pending on passing an exam. Attal says the 'Brevet', currently a nation-wide test taken the last year of junior high school will now be used as a pass or fail exam to entre lycee. SOUNDBITE
Several people lay flowers in front of the Arras secondary school, which is in mourning after the Islamist attack in which a teacher was killed and three other people injured. IMAGES