Heat Wave: Students Affected by a Postponement of Their Oral Baccalaureate Will Be Notified "Friday at the Latest", Announces the Minister of Education
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The heat wave tests the baccalaureate. Up to 40°C are expected this weekend, pushing National Education to consider the postponement of some orals to ensure safe examination conditions.
While there is a heat wave in France, Education National provides for local arrangements up to and including the postponement of some of the baccalaureate's oral examinations.
It is "to grant decent conditions not only for students, but also for staff," said Édouard Geffray at a press briefing organised after an inter-ministerial meeting on the heat wave.
Faced with the heat wave expected from Wednesday on a large part of France, the Ministry of National Education does not exclude the local postponement of certain oral exams of the baccalaureate.
"We will allow ourselves locally (...) to shift the events that would take place in the afternoon in establishments that would be too hot for a few days or a few hours," said Edouard Geffray on Tuesday.
Overheated classrooms, fans sometimes missing... High school students are taking their baccalaureate exams in sweltering heat. In Seine-Saint-Denis, "we can't take it anymore," they say. "We're suffering from this heat." Bagnolet (Seine-Saint-Denis), report "We can't take it anymore," says 18-year-old Lina. The senior at Eugène Hénaff High School in Bagnolet, Seine-Saint-Denis, took one of her baccalaureate exams on June 17. In her school, the c…
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