Students on strike !

( All you Brits, stop laughing ! )

The Faculties of Bordeaux 3 and Bordeaux 4 (humanities and law/economics/politics) are striking in protest at Nicolas Sarkozy's government's proposd education reforms, led by the lecturers.

So when I arrived on campus today Bordeaux 3 was empty - there were a few militants handing out leaflets to the few who passed. Bordeaux 4 was even more empty - there the militants were taking down their bassicades following the management's decision to close the university for the day. We talked with a couple of students we know who are concerned at having basically wasted their academic year and contemplated how the foreign students must feel who pay through the nose to come and to live in France and who then can do nothing much because of the university strikes.

For Brits the concept of students striking is genuinely funny - who'd notice if they strike ? Who'd care ? But in France it's very serious.

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