According to the Ministry of Education, which denies any "cancellation" of the visit, it was simply reorganized after these protesters forced an entrance to the National Higher Institute of Teaching and Education (Inspe), shouting "we too will pass in force", an allusion to the 49.3 used to adopt the unpopular pension reform.
The police, present inside, prevented them from entering the building, firing tear gas.
The visit to the Teacher Training Institute "is not canceled, it is reversed", the minister going first to the rectorate, then to the Inspe, the ministry was told.
During a microphone held up at the rectorate, Mr. Ndiaye confirmed that he would then go to Inspe.
The program of the visit communicated to the media did not initially mention a trip to the rectorate.
The announcement - only two hours before - of his trip had immediately sparked a call on the networks to welcome the minister in the heckling.
The few hundred people who had gathered in the welcoming committee were equipped with pots, pans, buckets, boxes of tin biscuits, whistles but also foghorns and smoke, noted an AFP journalist.
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