Face-to-face or remote? The students in the first year of medicine were able to choose at the start of the 2021 school year. PASS, understand the specific health access path. This 2020 device, resulting from the reform of medical studies, implies that if the student fails in the first year, he does not have the possibility of repeating. And his only hope of returning to it is after three years by reorienting himself towards a license with access to care. “It’s already very hard for our young people,” says Carole, the mother of a young man from Saint-Avold who hopes to sign the Hippocratic oath. “Only the best are selected. And they have to work very hard, without respite, seven days a week to hope to be retained ”.
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Six lecture halls, one teacher
In a context of a pandemic, the choice of distance learning became evident, especially since face-to-face, “out of six lecture halls, only one has a teacher and in the other five lecture halls, students follow the intervention in direct video, ”explains Carole. “The others, like my son, have for the moment access to a video replay at the end of the course”.
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But all collapsed on October 15 , when the director of PASS, Mathias Poussel, announced that the video replays would only be accessible one week after the course. Decision taken by the university to encourage young people to return to the lecture halls and to calm the anger of professors who have the impression of addressing an empty room. “It was to take effect on November 2. How can we change the rules of the game during the year and especially as the December exams approach? »Asks the Naborian. “Without forgetting that we have to find an apartment, put together the administrative files, those of APL requests. In short, a real headache and a measure that we do not understand ”.
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Anger
Faced with this state of affairs, groups of parents were formed to ask the management of the university to review his copy. “We challenged the president of the university, the dean, the teachers, the elected officials, addressed a letter to the Minister of Higher Education. To Jean Rottner, also, the president of the Grand Est region ”.
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A cry of alarm that has apparently been heard within the university. Who has not backed down, but reviewed – a little – his copy. Thus, from January, the courses broadcast live will be interrupted, and the replays available 48 hours later. “By doing this, is the university showing goodwill towards the students? Should it not support young people in their success? Should it not make all the tools available to them so that they can carry out their journey normally? I have the unpleasant impression not. So we are told that the face-to-face return is to avoid de-socialization. But our kids are already unsociable, since they live in autarky and have their noses constantly plunged into their lessons. Of the 1,000 students enrolled in the first year, ¼ overall will move on to the second year. “
The disappointment has just gone up a notch and these parents intend to manifest it loud and clear. By actions in the street, but also through legal channels. With the only concern that their children can study in conditions worthy of the name.
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