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They obtained an end of inadmissibility. Less than a week before the start of the common written exams of the BTS, next Monday, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) rejected this Tuesday, May 4 the appeal filed the day before by angry student groups who requested the cancellation of their writings in favor of continuous monitoring . The 185,000 students who apply for the higher technician's certificate (BTS) will therefore have to validate their diploma by visiting their examination centers.
"We went to the end of what we could do at the legal level, there is no more recourse possible, deplores Me Vincent Brengarth, the lawyer who represents the students. But we are still waiting for a start from ministers Jean-Michel Blanquer and Frédérique Vidal (Editor's note: respectively in charge of Education and Higher Education) ”.
"They send us to the pipe breaker!" "
Students have been protesting against the holding of these tests on site for weeks. At the end of last week, the Council of State had already refused them, approving the conduct of face-to-face exams. The summary judge stressed that specific means would be put in place to comply with the health rules linked to the Covid-19 epidemic. On the student side, the disappointment is significant. "We suffered a blow to morale, we are sent to break the pipe! », Sighs Julien, in the 2nd year of BTS SP3S (health and social sector), which belongs to the collective BTS in distress. Its members believe in particular that these face-to-face examinations are an infringement of their “right to health”.
The Ministry wants to reassure sanitary conditions
The higher technician's certificate (BTS) is prepared in two years after the baccalaureate. In 2020, confinement requires, the final tests of the second years had been canceled in favor of continuous testing. Not this time. "For a question of equality before this competition, BTS students have been invited to written tests everywhere in France since the beginning of the year and no cluster has been reported, we defend the Ministry of Higher Education . They are carried out in accordance with sanitary rules. Each file will be examined on a case-by-case basis as part of the remedial session in early July . "
Student mobilization via blockades
The UNL (national union of high school students) has been calling since the beginning of the week on high school and BTS students to take action to demand the cancellation of the tests. "The movement is gaining momentum, almost 300 high schools were blocked this Tuesday morning", claims Elie Saget, vice-president of the UNL, who calls for a "oil spill" of high school students on May 10, the first day of the tests municipalities of the BTS.