BBC: Strikes cripple French universities
Student protest in Bordeaux (2 April 2009)
France’s public universities are overcrowded and under-funded
Staff and students at almost a quarter of France’s state-run universities remain on strike over government plans to overhaul the higher education system.
The protests are now in their 14th week and may mean that some pupils, who have missed out on months of teaching, will have to miss their exams and repeat an entire academic year, the BBC’s Emma Jane Kirby in Paris says.
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