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Added on the 03/09/2013 20:24:23 - Copyright : France 24 EN
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
Gabriel Attal, Minister for Education, alongside Xavier Bertrand, President of the Hauts-de-France Regional Council, leaves the Gambetta secondary school in Arras, the day after the knife attack that left one teacher dead and three people injured. IMAGES
Images from the home of Mohammed Mogouchkov, arrested for the murder of literature teacher Dominique Bernard in Arras. The 20-year-old, who had been highlighted as a potential threat, was under close surveillance. IMAGES