The French government on Wednesday attempted to defuse the anger caused by the attempted suicide of a student who set himself alight to protest the hardships of his university life.
President Emmanuel Macron deplored the student's"tragic" gesture at a cabinet meeting Wednesday and expressed his"empathy and compassion", government spokeswoman Sibeth Ndiaye said. At the University of Lille, a conference by former president Francois Hollande had to be called off while at Lyon 2 University, where the man is enrolled, students blocked classes for a second day running on Wednesday.
In his Facebook post, which was published by Lyon's Le Progres newspaper, he said that even when he received a 450-euro monthly bursary, he struggled to get by. Ndiaye, the government spokeswoman, defended the government's record on student aid, noting that the number of bursaries available to struggling students had risen by 1.1 percent for the 2019/2020 academic year.
Source: Education Headlines (educationheadlines.net)
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