Editorial photo #6370166 Social Issue

Students Organized A Sit-in Against Precarity And The Suppr'ession Of Courses In Real Life

A professor sits amid students during the sit-in. A student unions called for a sit-in on the Capitole square in Toulouse to raise awareness about the difficulties of students during the covid-19 pandemic. They have courses only online except tutorials for the students in the first year of university. And due to the pandemic, they must live inside, they can't socialize anymore due to the lockdown, the curfew and the closing of culture' places, bars, restaurants and night clubs. Moe important, many students pay their university by working part-time but they can't anymore due to the lockdown. The number of students below the poverty line is rising rapidly. Some attenpted to commit suicide. Similar protest took place elsewhere in France. Toulouse. France. January 21th 2021. (Photo by Alain Pitton/NurPhoto)