French students protest reforms

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Source: CCTV.com | 11-13-2007 13:43

University students raise their hands as they vote about continuing their movement of disrupting classes on the campus of Lyon, central France, Monday, Nov. 12, 2007. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)

French riot police broke up a blockade of students at a suburban Paris university on Monday. The demonstration at Nanterre University was opposed to academic admission reforms approved last summer.

They claim the traditional open admissions policy is being jeopardized in favor of an American style system of selective universities.

Caroline De Haas, Union of French Students, said, "This law opens the door to state financial commitments and we think it makes the universities compete with each other so it jeopardizes the equality among students."

Editor:Zhang Pengfei