The January exams will take place at the University, Minister of Higher Education Frédérique Vidal announced this week. Immediately, a petition was put online by students for the University of Aix-Marseille to take the exams at a distance. For its part, the UNEF is campaigning for “broom sessions”.

While the students of the University of Aix-Marseille are preparing to resume their courses in distance from January 3, the Minister of Higher Education Frédérique Vidal announced that the January exams will take place face-to-face.

Quickly, a petition was uploaded by students. They ask that the exams take place remotely: “Contaminations will take place during these examinations “, affirms the text.

Faced with the current significant wave of contaminations, she points out the possible consequences of the ministry’s decision: “there are those who will be currents [qu’ils sont positifs au Covid-19, ndlr] and who will therefore not take the exams but also those who will not be aware and who will sit for the exams. “

“Most of my relatives are positive for Covid and I risk catching it too, I do not want to go to catch-up in June when I am reviewing thoroughly, testifies one of the signatories. I wish to have my chances and the same for Those who are in the same situation as me, it would be preferable to take the exams at a distance. “

also fear that students will know that they may be positive, some of the same on exams, for fear of losing their scholarships or missing their year.

“At the Unef Aix-Marseille, we noticed that the students were at the same time for partials in face-to-face and partials in distance, testifies Lyes Beladjh, president of the student union for the university. For a very simple reason: we did the entire first semester face-to-face and students are not equal when it comes to distance. There are students who live with their families so sometimes it’s the “souk” in the house, students who have a bad internet connection, etc. We are pleading for a hybridization of the system and the establishment of brush sessions. “

The “broom sessions” would be sessions, different from the catch-up, where students who could not have gone to the first exam session because they were positive for Covid-19 could take their exams a few weeks later.

The Minister of Higher Education, for her part, replied that face-to-face exams reported “Ia majority demand from students “, who are mostly vaccinated. She indicated that a review report was “obviously possible if on a promotion which is particularly affected” but that it had to be done “on a case-by-case basis” to avoid stressing the students.