Question 311 — higher education

Summary

Mr. José Beaurain questions the Minister of Higher Education and Research on the advisability of making public funding of student unions conditional on compliance with a code of conduct based on republican values. The MP recalls that the UNEF benefited from 458,850 euros of annual public subsidy in 2019 and 2020, a sum calculated in proportion to the results obtained during the last elections of the National Center for university and school works (Cnous). The leading student union in France in terms of public funding, the Federation of General Student Associations (FAGE) received 836,000 euros in subsidies over the same period. He emphasizes that, for several years, serious abuses have been reported in many French universities on the part of representatives and “activists” of certain student unions. As for example, he cites, without limitation, the organization of “single-sex” meetings on the basis of racial exclusion, the exercise of pressure, intimidation and threats aimed at canceling conferences and debates within several establishments, or even the ransacking of the premises of the Sorbonne during the 2022 blockages, causing several tens of thousands of euros in repair costs. He asks him if he plans to take concrete measures to condition the payment of public money on compliance, by these associations and their activists, with a code of conduct intended to ensure the end of these abuses and, in the event of non-compliance with it, if it considers interrupting any subsidy payment.

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