Portrait of a Head of National Education
Audio 48:30
The Lycée Turgot in Paris.
© CC-BY-SA-4.0 / Lepocheux
By: Emmanuelle Bastide
50 min
Discover the story of an extraordinary high school principal.
Former bad student, became heating engineer then teacher, principal of education and principal of high schools, Christophe Barrand tells what he saw of French society.
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Between the major high schools which siphon off the best students, the "sore" parents who complain in his office or his strained relations with the administration, this unusual headmaster hides nothing of what is going on behind the walls of the high schools .
Christophe Barrand
, author with Guillemette Faure of
Monsieur le principal
(Grasset)
Guillemette Faure
, journalist and columnist at
M le magazine du Monde
Mandaw Mbaye
, principal of the
Lycée Seydina Limamou Laye in Guediawaye, Pikine, Senegal.
At the end of the program, the column by psychologist Ibrahima Giroux, Parents, children, here and elsewhere: how to meet the needs of parents when they are old.
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A weekly meeting to help parents, Ibrahima Giroux is a psychologist at UNICEF in Dakar.
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