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France to introduce school uniforms in bid to reduce bullying and inequality

When some French schools reopen in September this year, they will pilot a mandatory school uniform under a two-year trial period initiated by Education Minister Gabriel Attal. The initiative aims to tackle inequality among French students and reduce bullying and peer pressure. But some public school teachers, psychologists and experts…

France 24

Major row erupts in France after nude painting shown to pupils

Teachers walk out after ‘offended’ pupils at a school near Paris refused to look at Renaissance-era painting as teachers walk out

The Independent UK

Renaissance Nudes Spark Crisis At French School

Teachers at a school outside Paris refused to work on Monday as the establishment grappled with a crisis sparked by the showing in class of a painting by a Renaissance master containing several nude women.

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French education minister wants to improve schools after Pisa shock

French Minister of Education Gabriel Attal announced a series of measures on Tuesday to address the decline in academic performance following the 2022 Pisa study, which highlighted a "historic" decrease in French students' proficiency in mathematics.

Radio France Internationale

France bans 85 pupils from school for disrupting tributes to slain teachers

Disciplinary councils within France's Education Ministry have sanctioned 605 pupils following incidents that marred tributes last month to teachers Dominique Bernard and Samuel Paty. 85 students, permanently excluded from their schools, will have to find alternative establishments.

Radio France Internationale

France looks to remove radicalised students from schools

Teachers at the Gambetta-Carnot school in Arras in northern France had twice reported Mohammed Mogouchkov to authorities when he was a student there. But he remained at the school and graduated, and on 13 October he stabbed to death a teacher, claiming allegiance to the Islamic State armed group. The…

Radio France Internationale

French police clamp down on perpetrators of 'antisemitic acts'

French police have arrested more than 20 people in relation to "antisemitic acts" that were reported since Saturday’s attack by Hamas militants in Israel.

Radio France Internationale

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Bedbugs force closure of seven schools in France: minister

The French government said it was launching a concerted effort to fight bedbugs that have appeared in numbers in public transport, cinemas, hospitals and in some schools.

Radio France Internationale

France bedbugs: Seven schools forced to shut following outbreak

France has been forced to shut seven schools following a bedbug outbreak in Paris.

Evening Standard

France's government promises to root out school bullies, reacting to wide anger over child suicides

The French government is promising a series of measures to curb bullying in schools, reacting to nationwide concern over recent suicides of schoolchildren

The Independent UK

French PM Borne unveils 'uncompromising' strategy to combat bullying in schools

The French government on Wednesday unveiled an interministerial plan to combat bullying in schools, with Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne promising an "uncompromising fight" against such aggression. The announcement follows the suicide deaths of several teenagers that have sparked widespread indignation in recent years.

France 24

France’s abaya ban risks isolating Muslim students, experts say

Al Jazeera speaks to a teacher, rights lawyer, expert and activist on tensions between the state and Muslim minority.

Al Jazeera

France’s schools are in crisis – and it has nothing to do with pupils’ dress

With poor areas hardest hit by underfunding and staff shortages, the government is using populist policy as a cheap distraction, says Guardian columnist Rokhaya Diallo

The Guardian - UK

France admits 'failures' in measures to prevent bullying, suicides among teenagers

The French government has admitted that France is not up to the task in addressing school bullying, after the revelation that local education authorities sent a threatening letter to the parents of a boy who died by suicide after complaining of being bullied.

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France goes back to school with abaya ban as government mulls uniforms

Some 300 French students wore abayas on the first day of school, days after the Education Minister announced their banning. The issue of what Muslim students are allowed to wear in schools continues to stir debate in France, where reintroducing uniforms will be tested in the autumn.

The Independent UK

French schools send ‘dozens’ of Muslim girls home over traditional robe

298 girls, mostly aged 15 and over, wore the garment on Monday in spite of the ban

Al Jazeera

Schools in France send dozens of Muslim girls home for wearing abayas

Schoolgirls who refused to change out of the robes have been sent home with a letter to parents on secularism.

France 24

France's public schools will enforce dress code banning Islamic abayas, says Macron

French students won’t get past the door if they show up for school wearing long robes, President Emmanuel Macron made clear Friday, saying authorities would be "intractable" in enforcing a new rule when classes resume next week.

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Macron says schools will be 'intractable' in enforcing abaya ban

French students won’t get past the door if they show up for school wearing long robes, President Emmanuel Macron made clear Friday, saying authorities would be “intractable” in enforcing a new rule when classes resume next week.

The Independent UK

France's Macron says schools will be 'intractable' in enforcing ban on robes often worn by Muslims

French President Emmanuel Macron says public school students won’t get past the door if they show up dressed in long robes mainly worn by Muslims

Evening Standard

France posts video honouring Martin Luther King using only white children

The French government has been pilloried for releasing a video honouring Martin Luther King’s ‘I Have a Dream’ civil rights march – using white children only.

The Week

France’s abaya robe ban in schools: overreach from the state?

The abaya has “no place in schools”, according to France’s education minister, announcing a ban on the loose, dress-like garment in state schools.

Radio France Internationale

Cultural garment or religious symbol? Debate over France's ban on abayas in school

The French education minister’s proposal to prohibit students from wearing abayas - full-length robes worn by some Muslim women - has been welcomed on the right as a move to protect France's secularist traditions, but it has divided the left over whether the garment is a cultural or religious symbol,…

Zenger

France Bans The Abaya In Schools: A History Of The Islamic Garment

The rationale for the ban, they said, was to stem a growing number of disputes in its secular schools

The Independent UK

French education minister bans long robes in classrooms in effort to defend nation's secular values

France’s education minister has announced a ban on long robes in classrooms starting with the new school year, saying the garments worn mainly by Muslims are testing secularism in the nation’s schools

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