In Toulouse: the distribution of food parcels is reorganized for precarious students
The Union of Communist Students (UEC) in Toulouse is organizing a food distribution on Wednesday December 1 for students affected by precariousness. A problem that remains unresolved despite the economic recovery.
A food distribution will take place for the students who still cannot join the two fights, despite the announced economic recovery.
The action, which will take place on Wednesday December 1 at the Daniel Faucher residence in Toulouse, has a political flavor since it is organized by the Union of Communist Students (UEC) and by the PCF, but it also gives an idea of the condition of students increasingly affected by the crisis.
Many food distributions hatched at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, but coronavirus or not, in student hotlines, the attendance is still very high. The average cost of the start of the school year is estimated at 2,392 euros this year, up 1.32% compared to 2020, according to the Fage indicator and these are the many students concerned in Toulouse.
“With the end of the 1 euro meal for non-scholars, how many of us have gone from college benches to food bank files? For us it is clear that we need a policy of radical transformation of society and give our country the ambition to have the best educated youth in the world, ”denounces the UEC in a press release.
“It is a major subject at the Federal University”
The heads of higher education and research establishments in Toulouse are aware of a growing phenomenon. Especially since Toulouse has welcomed 7,000 additional students over the past two years (there are 107,000 in total and nearly 120,000 in the academy).
“The precariousness of students has become the major subject of the Federal University, confided in October its president Philippe Raimbault. It existed before, but it is accentuated by the coronavirus crisis. “
On October 1, to fight “against student precariousness”, the Minister of Higher Education, Research and Innovation Frédérique Vidal spoke of the revaluation of scholarships based on social criteria, an increase of 3.3% in three years, and the freezing of tuition fees for the third consecutive year.