Overview
- Education Minister Édouard Geffray rejected changes to the bac calendar on Saturday, saying a national diploma cannot be adjusted for individual disruptions.
- The government will also keep this year’s Parcoursup schedule in place while removing the mandatory motivation letter and promising full transparency on local selection criteria and algorithms.
- Officials offered targeted measures for disrupted schools, including extra catch-up classes and changes to continuous assessment such as smoothing contrôle continu over a semester.
- A formal reform committee will meet on Monday and Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu will receive student and lycéen representatives at Matignon, while an intersyndicale has called a new strike and demonstrations for Tuesday, November 10.
- Keeping the dates preserves the flow of university admissions but risks prolonging the mobilisation because unions say the measures are insufficient and students face compressed time to recover lost lessons.