Jean-Michel Blanquer, Minister of National Education, January 13, leaving the Elysee Palace.

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Despite the announced closure of establishments in the coming weeks, to curb the coronavirus epidemic, the Minister of National Education, Jean-Michel Blanquer, indicated, this Thursday, to have the objective of maintaining the grand oral and the baccalaureate philosophy test this year.

"The objective is to maintain as much as possible the exams as planned today", he said on RT, citing the philosophy and the grand oral for the bac, or the exams for the BTS.

"Distances greater than usual"

"We are based on the health situation and assume that it will be greatly improved in June," he continued.

"It is not to annoy people but to maintain the requirement of the bac", continued the minister, evoking the need "of the most extreme benevolence".

According to him, the philo test could be organized "by respecting the barrier measures", with "greater distances than usual", between the candidates.

On Wednesday evening, President Emmanuel Macron announced that nurseries, schools, colleges and high schools would be closed as of Friday evening and the unified spring school holidays throughout the territory from April 12.

Four weeks of closure

The week of April 5 to 12, "classes for schools, colleges and high schools will be at home, except for the children of caregivers and some other professions, as well as children with disabilities," said the head of state.

It will be followed by two weeks of vacation from April 12, for all zones, before a return to school on April 26 face-to-face in schools and in distance for one more week in middle and high schools.

High schools operating on a hybrid model for several weeks, unions have already demanded the cancellation of the grand oral.

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