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Added on the 03/09/2020 12:15:12 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Hundreds of girls wearing hijabs, gathered at Zamfara state government premises as all 279 students kidnapped from their boarding school in northern Nigeria have been released. IMAGES
Some 750 pupils from the Bois d'Aulne secondary school in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine (Yvelines) return to classes a day later than scheduled Tuesday, following a two-week break for holidays. On October 16, Samuel Paty, a history teacher, was beheaded outside the school by a jihadist. The rest of France's 12m pupils returned to classes on Monday. IMAGES
After a two-week holiday, 12 million pupils return to school in France. At the Jean Jaurès secondary school in Cenon, classes begin with a tribute to Samuel Paty, the teacher who was beheaded on 16 October for having shown cartoons of Mohammed in class. IMAGES
A day after their release, dozens of Nigerian schoolchildren kidnapped by gunmen earlier this month, arrive at the Kaduna State Government House ahead of a meeting with the governor of the northwestern state, Uba Sani. The mass abduction in Kuriga, Kaduna state on March 7 was one of the biggest attacks on a school in years and sparked a national outcry over insecurity. 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