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French President Emmanuel Macron arrives with new Education Minister Gabriel Attal for a visit to the Argensol vocational school in Orange, South of 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
France's Minister of National Education Jean-Michel Blanquer visits a primary school in the Parisian suburb of Palaiseau, the day after confinement orders are lifted. Thousands of schools are reopening their doors after a two-month stoppage, a limited and strictly supervised restart, but one that raises many fears in the face of a coronavirus epidemic that is still active in France. 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
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