School and education are of concern to voters. In fact, this is an important theme of presidential campaigns. Look at candidates' election platforms in education since 1981.
François HOLLANDE, Socialist candidate in the presidential election, is interviewed in a duplex by Tours on his education programme and his project to improve teacher training.
François BAYROU, candidate in the presidential election for the UDF, discusses the vocation and necessity of the school card, which guarantees equal opportunities and explains that in order to fight school failure, Pupils leaving primary school must be able to read before entering college.
Presentation of the major measures concerning national education and education in the programmes of the main candidates in the presidential election, notably Ségolène Royal (PS), François Bayrou (UDF), Nicolas Sarkozy (UMP) and Jean Marie Le Pen (FN). Comments on factual images of relay workshops for schoolchildren in great difficulty and illustration images, alternating with the interview of Marie DURU BELLAT, sociologist.
Journalist Jacques MERLINO sets out the 10 proposals of François MITTERRAND, a socialist presidential candidate, on the reform of the school. An excerpt from François MITTERRAND’s statement on the reports he recommends for the private school closes the subject: "a great public and secular service of education will be established" not excluding private institutions under contract.
Interview of François ASSELINEAU, candidate in the 2017 presidential election for the Republican People’s Union by Léa SALAME. It proposes to reform the teaching of history at school so that the program ends in the year 1975. He believes that the courses on the construction of the European Union are partisan and risk "manipulating the consciences" of children.
The socialist candidate in the presidential election, François HOLLANDE, speaks in a duplex from Tours on the importance of kindergarten. He promises means and teachers if elected.
The candidate in the presidential election, Emmanuel MACRON proposes to reduce the number of classes of CP and CE1 to 12 students in priority education areas. In response to Léa SALAME, who compares her project to positive discrimination, he answers that he puts an end to "the hypocrisy of egalitarianism".
Invited to the stage, the National Front candidate in the presidential election, Marine Le PEN speaks on education. It advocates the return to traditional knowledge, the exclusivity of the syllabic method, the restoration of discipline at school, learning at 14 and the end of the obligation to attend school at 16.
Presidential elections 2017: the candidate Emmanuel MACRON exposes his project of autonomy of colleges and lycées: to promote educational projects in schools and to allow the headteachers to recruit and select teachers according to their skills and motivation.
Subject devoted to the proposals of the main candidates in the 1988 presidential election on education: Raymond BARRE, François MITTERAND and Jacques CHIRAC. If not all candidates and parties have detailed their project, the common ambition is to bring by the year 2000, 70 to 80% of students to the baccalaureate.
Subject dedicated to the National Front’s programme on education. The party believes that the National Education failed in its missions. It advocates the abolition of the school card, the autonomy of schools, a school allowance for families, courses of morality and civic instruction, the complete revision of school textbooks, a modification of the history program, promoting academic achievement and guidance in working life for those who fail. Interviewees explain or respond to these proposals. - Miguel de PEYRECAVE, FN education spokesperson - Georges DUPONT LAHITTE, President of the FCPE - Xavier DARCOS, Education Spokesperson for the Presidential Majority - Gérard ASCHIERI, Secretary General FSU
In order to facilitate access to employment for graduates of French universities, who are at a disadvantage compared to young people from the Grandes Écoles, Jacques CHIRAC recommends opening the faculties to the professional world and introducing a 6-month paid internship for all students.