Overview
- Édouard Geffray said in an interview published Saturday that he will not change the national baccalauréat timetable and that the Parcoursup calendar will remain unchanged this year.
- The ministry said it will allocate extra resources in schools where lessons were blocked, including catch-up classes and adjustments to continuous assessment to compensate pupils who missed instruction.
- For immediate reform of Parcoursup the government will end the mandatory motivation letter, require clearer publication of local selection criteria and the algorithms used, and allow rejected candidates to know the reason for refusal.
- Geffray gave figures showing disruptions were uneven: roughly one third of lycées saw no interruption, another third had only light disturbances, and about 10% experienced strong mobilizations concentrated in large cities.
- High-level talks are set at Matignon on Monday with Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu and student representatives, while an intersyndicale has called a new national day of strikes and demonstrations for Tuesday, November 10, leaving tensions unresolved and possible further disruption to school routines and admissions choices.