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Video games: Une manette dans le cartable, the conference to follow at the Cité des Sciences

The Cité des Sciences invites you to discover its latest gaming conference on the educational potential of video games, entitled Une manette dans le cartable, on January 27, 2024. An opportunity for teachers, students and technology enthusiasts to understand the impact of video games on education.

eSport: OPEN LEAGUE tournament at the CESI campus in Nanterre

Attention eSport fans! We're off to CESI Nanterre's Open Day on December 9, 2023, to discover the "Open League" event, an eSports competition based on Super Smash Bros Ultimate and Street Fighter 6. Discover innovations in computer science and take part in interactive workshops, escape games and much more!

September 2021's school start: health protocol in schools, junior high schools, and high schools

What is the health protocol in schools, junior high schools, and high schools starting from September 2021? This July 28, 2021, the Minister of the National Education addressed the issue, unveiling the "health framework" instated in schooles and classes starting from Thursday September 2, when school starts again. Compulsory facemask indoor, classes closed only in elementary schools and vaccination non compulsory for teachers; keep reading to find out more.

Covid: “No improvement to expect” by late May in France, an INSERM epidemiologist thinks

As Emmanuel Macron has announced travel restrictions will be progressively lifted early May, INSERM epidemiologist Dominique Costagliola told France Inter that because of the current situation there is “no soon improvement to expect” or even “any decrease” by late May in the country.

Covid: how does the virus spread in schools?

Can children contaminate adults around them? Following teachers’ strike on Tuesday November 10, here is how the virus spreads in schools.

Coronavirus: reduced gauge in universities, different from high schools, Blanquer says

As Paris and its inner suburbs are put on maximum alert zone since October 4 at night because of the worrying increase in coronavirus cases, on Tuesday October 6, 2020 National Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer addresses the reduction of the student guage in universities and the polemic as for junior high schools and high schools that are not on the same boat.

Coronavirus: high schools to reopen in June only? Edouard Philippe's statements on May 28

Edouard Philippe's address on Thursday May 28, 2020 gives further details as for the phase 2 of the containment exit scheme. Technical college are said to reopen from June 2 for at least one of the three levels. As for students in general sections, they will enjoy meetings in small groups with their teacher to assess the situation and the followup for seniors.

Coronavirus: towards a return to school in September? President Macron's announcements

What if, because of the coronavirus epidemic, your children did not return to school until the beginning of the school year in September? It is one of the tracks considered by the teachers, the parents of pupils. However, the President of the Republic quickly dismissed this possibility, announcing on Monday 13 April that school would resume progressively from 11 May.