Two professors of the visual arts of the University Toulouse Jean-Jaurès were excluded from the higher education for facts of "sexual and moral harassment" against several students, one learned from the university.
"The heaviest penalty"
"At the end of the instructions by the Disciplinary Commissions, each of the teachers was found guilty of pedagogical practices contrary to the ethics of the teacher, which resulted in placing the students in a situation of moral and sexual harassment", says the teacher. university in a statement, stressing that the decision "is enforceable immediately".
These teachers are being applied "a definitive prohibition to perform teaching or research functions in any public higher education institution," said the Toulouse university, adding that it is "the heaviest penalty ".
Several cases reported in recent months
In mid-May, these two teachers had been temporarily suspended while the management of the school was investigating facts denounced by the Toulouse Students' Union (UET). In its press release, the University of Toulouse Jean-Jaurès reports that "sanctioned teachers can appeal" before the National Council of Higher Education and Research.
According to the UET, several cases of "sexual harassment" have been denounced in recent months in the same university. "A researcher attached to the CNRS is suspended" and his case must be decided by the disciplinary commission, "the contract of an English reader has not been renewed", while a librarian "was excluded a year ago," assured the representative of the student union.