
تشهد فرنسا منذ أواخر سبتمبر احتجاجات طلابية واسعة النطاق ضد نقص تمويل التعليم وتدهور مرافق المدارس الثانوية، تخللتها أعمال عنف واعتقالات واسعة وإصابات بين الطلاب والمعلمين وأفراد الشرطة.
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منذ أواخر سبتمبر، ينظم طلاب المدارس الثانوية في فرنسا احتجاجات للمطالبة بزيادة التمويل وتحسين المرافق التعليمية.
منذ أواخر سبتمبر/أيلول الماضي، ينظم الطلاب في جميع أنحاء فرنسا احتجاجات ضد نقص التمويل في التعليم، ويمنعون الوصول إلى العديد من المدارس الثانوية.
وتحوّلت الحركة إلى أعمال عنف في بعض المناطق، حيث أصيب المئات من الطلاب والمعلمين وأفراد الشرطة وتم اعتقال آلاف الأشخاص، بمن فيهم عدد غير معروف ممن وصفوا بأنهم "مثيري شغب".
يشكو المتظاهرون من تدهور المرافق في المدارس الثانوية في البلاد، وهي مدارس يرتادها الطلاب الذين تتراوح أعمارهم بين 15 و18 عاماً.

Student protests in France have entered their third week, with thousands of students participating in demonstrations against the shortage of teachers and deteriorating school conditions, as the government announced an emergency plan to provide alternatives for absent teachers and review school schedules, while some cities witnessed confrontations between protesters and the police in which water cannons were used, and the movement’s leaders called for a new day of protest on October 17.

UAE President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan sent a message of appreciation to teachers on International Teachers’ Day, by publishing his photo as a child and a handwritten letter to one of his teachers on the X platform, expressing his gratitude for the role of teachers in achieving the vision of education and building confident generations.

Student protests began in France on September 21 due to the shortage of educational staff, and expanded to include more than 300 educational institutions, with the closure of schools and universities and protests that turned into acts of violence and widespread arrests, while the government faces a financial and political crisis amid preparations for the presidential elections.
The French Minister of Education announced the closure of more than 400 schools tomorrow due to student protests that turned into riots, with the destruction of fire safety systems and attacks on employees, and the confrontations concentrated in poor suburbs such as Seine-Saint-Denis, and the police arrested more than 1,000 students within a few days.

With the start of the new school year in northeastern Syria, schools in Kurdish-majority areas turned into an arena of confrontation after the Syrian Ministry of Education decided to teach only three classes a week in Kurdish for humanities and social subjects, while scientific subjects remained in Arabic. This sparked protests by Kurds who see the decision as taking away their right to education in their mother tongue and a threat to their linguistic gains that were achieved during the period of self-administration, despite Presidential Decree (13) recognizing Kurdish as a national language.

Complaints from parents in Egypt about the difficulty and intensity of basic education curricula have escalated after extensive amendments made by the Ministry of Education this year, with their implementation starting on September 12, while displaced families from El Fasher in Sudan are facing living and health difficulties after losing the breadwinner and disruption of schooling. Drone attacks continue on Sudanese cities such as El Obeid and Wad Medani, which increases the suffering of civilians.