Mélina Facchin 06h16, September 27, 2022

Ban on taking out your laptop in the amphitheater, obligation to cover the camera of your computer with tape: first-year medical students at the University of Nancy are subject to new rules.

The goal: to prevent the registration and sale of courses.

We no longer laugh at the Faculty of Medicine of Nancy.

Since the start of the school year, mobile phones are prohibited in the amphitheater, as is the use of the camera on your computer or tablet.

Recording of lessons in any way whatsoever is also prohibited. 

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From the top of the "first year" amphitheater, two men, "teaching assistants" watch the ranks and ensure that the course takes place in peace.

"No phone, no headphones, a tape on the camera of our computer so that the lessons are not filmed and no photos", list Alexia, 18 years old.

Those who deviate from the rule incur a summons to the director.

Avoid a price leak

With these new measures, the objective of the University is to restore calm in amphitheatres which sometimes turned “to anarchy”, affirms one of the supervisors.

And also, and above all, "to avoid that the courses go in particular to private preparatory courses", insists Cédric Boura, director of health studies.

“Some prépas remunerate our students from the upper years to come to our classes, transcribe them and then give these materials back to our first-year students, of course making them pay a lot of money,” he explains.

Students get along 

On the whole, the students do not appear traumatized by these new rules.

"At first, I found them weird," admits Tayeb, 17, who expected a little more freedom once he arrived at university.

"But once they explained to us why, we understood and we respect the rules", he says with a smile.

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"It's not very serious either," adds his comrade Youssef.

"I even find it normal that teachers do not want us to copy their lessons," adds Anael.

"Finally, no cell phone, it's like in high school!"

Students visibly more determined to be part of the 35% who will move on to the second year than to break the rules.