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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 Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin awarded medals to the nine police officers who responded to subdue a radicalised young man who had just killed a high school teacher on 13 October 2023, in Arras, northern France. IMAGES
Several thousand teachers and other education staff are demonstrating in Paris to raise the alarm about their working conditions and salaries and to defend state schools, following controversial statements made by their minister Amelie Oudea-Castera. (COMPLETE VIDI34HD28T_EN) IMAGES
Over 1,600 teachers and high school students are demonstrating in the streets of Marseille, south of France, according to police figures. French teachers are striking across the country demanding better pay and work conditions, after being "inflammed" by Education Minister Amelie Oudea-Castera's comments. IMAGES
France's new Education Minister Amelie Oudea-Castera calls for and end "to the chapter of personal attacks" amid growing controversy over the enrolment of her children in private schools. Speaking to the media while visiting the Olympic Village in Saint-Denis, outside Paris, Oudea-Castera added that she "believes in public schools". SOUNDBITE