Claude ALLÈGRE, the new PS Minister of National Education, questions the time spent on vocational training during class hours, teacher absenteeism, and 4 months of vacation... Commentary on archival images of the Minister’s various reactions and statements.
Extract from the press conference of Claude ALLEGRE, Minister of Education, on his plan to fight violence in schools: "The means are a necessary but not sufficient condition."
Portrait of Claude ALLEGRE, Minister of National Education for a few months, who chose the school day to strongly denounce the absenteeism of teachers. Interview with Ségolène Royale (Minister Delegate for School Education) and the interested party: "There is too much absenteeism in the National Education, 12%, it is too much, we must put an end to this..." (Note: the Minister will later acknowledge that the 12% figure is overvalued and false).
Duplex of San Francisco with Claude ALLÈGRE, former PS Minister of National Education, who castigates the call for the strike of exams among teachers: "The strike of exams is unacceptable... I have been a teacher for 40 years and I have never considered this... Even in May 68, we passed the exams... I consider this strike unworthy of teachers..."
Stormy sequence on the plateau of Julien BESANCON between Claude ALLÈGRE (geochemist) and Haroun TAZIEFF (volcanologist) about a possible serious eruption of the volcano of Soufrière in Guadeloupe, the first being alarming, the second not believing in it. Claude ALLÈGRE, very vehement, accusing Haroun TAZIEFF of having made "mistakes" and "messed up", and rejecting his so-called too optimistic predictions: "We climbed on the volcano, and with your optimistic predictions, we almost left our skin." N.B. The facts will prove Haroun Tazieff right, the Soufrière showing up in the end very little, but, as a precaution, 73,000 people had nevertheless been evacuated...
Claude ALLEGRE, head of the geochemistry department at the Institute of Physics of the Globe and professor at the Faculty of Sciences, surrounded by children, on the plateau of Bertrand JEROME, explains to them with pedagogy when the formation of the solar system goes back: 7 billion years. This is Claude ALLEGRE’s first television appearance.
David PUJADAS leads a live debate on nuclear energy between Claude ALLEGRE, former Minister of National Education and Research, and Daniel COHN-BENDIT, MEP for Europe-Ecology-The Greens, in duplex in Frankfurt, Germany. The first considering that the question of risks does not arise in France because of the totally different seismological conditions between France and Japan, the second retorts that the dangers that can affect a nuclear power plant are not limited to the simple seismic risk, but there is also terrorism, storms, a cumulative risk...
On the set of David PUJADAS, Claude ALLEGRE, former PS Minister of Education, is interviewed about his book "La défaite en chantant", in which he severely judges Ségolène ROYAL, his former Minister for School Education when he was Minister, and former socialist candidate, beaten, in the last presidential election: "She loves only herself, excessive pride, she does not prepare anything..." And adds that he does not regard him politically, even if he recognizes some qualities of leader, which he does not recognize on the other hand to her ex-husband, François HOLLANDE...
Claude ALLEGRE, geochemist, reacts to the Crafoord Prize (sort of Nobel Prize NDD) which has just been awarded to him by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences: "It is a recognition for French geology."
Roland SICARD receives the former Minister of National Education Claude ALLEGRE to take stock of the controversy surrounding his latest work, "Climate fraud or false ecology". The scientist, a geochemist, is indeed challenging some scientific work on global warming. He even thinks that we have been in a period of refraction for ten years...
The INA Galaxy 
