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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
French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne takes part in a cyberbullying awareness workshop with a class of Year 7 students (sixth graders) at the Albert Einstein secondary school in Magny-les-Hameaux, near Paris. IMAGES
France's minister for education, Jean-Michel Blanquer, visits the Jean Perrin vocational high school in Saint-Cyr l'Ecole on the occasion of the transition to phase two of deconfinement, synonymous with the gradual reopening of vocational high schools in the orange zone. IMAGES
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
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
Supporters of Zambian President Lungu hold a rally in Lusaka during a tense presidential race, which has been marked by clashes between rival supporters. The presidential election will take place on Thursday. IMAGES.