Difficult to follow the sanitary rules at the University of Lille according to the CGT

In a TD room at the University of Lille on the Cité Scientifique campus.

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Aggravating factor.

Thursday, the CGT union filed two rights of alert with the management of the University of Lille to, in particular, denounce "the impossibility of applying health directives in classrooms.

One site is particularly targeted, that of the Cité Scientifique, where two teachers have also asserted their right of withdrawal.

The coronavirus epidemic is certainly a problem, but it would only worsen an already worrying situation according to this union.

Friday morning, there were no crowds at the Cité Scientifique, still called “Lille 1” by the elders despite the merger of the three Lille universities in 2018. Most of the 20,000 or so students usually present on this single campus are in effect left for the weekend.

Nevertheless, we still manage to come across a course in a room in the SH 1 building, one of the oldest on this site, the construction of which dates back to the 1960s. “In this room, for example, we cannot not open windows.

The frames are deformed due to the dilapidated nature of the building, ”laments Anissa Habane, design engineer and member of the CGT.

Suddenly, the door remains open so that the students do not die of heat.

"We cannot respect the sanitary instructions"

Except that the current problem is not there.

In a document of around thirty pages entitled “Plan for the resumption of activities of the University of Lille following confinement”, it is written in black and white that “the rooms must be ventilated, ventilated between each course […].

A teaching room that does not have an accessible window or mechanical air renewal cannot be used.

"A state of affairs that the central denounces:" We cannot respect the sanitary instructions.

In our opinion, this represents a serious and imminent danger of contamination, ”insists Anissa Habane.

Before the start of the school year, the management of the University of Lille had declared that the gauges of the amphitheatres would be halved, but that “all the other courses could be held with 100% of the staff, within the limit of the capacity of reception of the room.

This Friday, we did not find any breach at this level.

"However, it happens very often that we teach about forty students in rooms intended for only thirty," says Jamal El Khattabi, professor of Civil Engineering.

To back up his claim, the teacher shows us a photo of a crowded room in building SH1.

"This is one of the two problems that we are highlighting, the dysfunctions in the allocation of rooms", regrets Jean-Marc Nicolas, research engineer.

In a TD room at the University of Lille on the Cité Scientifique campus.

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The other problem would come from the dilapidation of the campus according to the CGT.

“I had already exercised my right of withdrawal last year because students sometimes found themselves having to take classes standing up for lack of space.

All these dysfunctions are exacerbated by the need to adapt to health rules, ”laments Céline Cornet, professor of physics.

And to date, at least two teachers from the Cité Scientifique have imitated it.

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, the management of the University of Lille has not yet followed up.

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