Students in France are sitting their Baccalaureate exams today – but no amount of revision can prepare them for the potential challenges of the week ahead.
The country is bracing for what could be another intense and widespread heatwave, with temperatures potentially soaring to 40°C in some places.
It’s set to push schools, many of which are poorly prepared for extreme heat, further into crisis.
At the end of May, an unprecedented heatwave left students sweltering through their high school exams, many with inadequate shade, ventilation and drinking water. resources.
The ordeal has prompted French Minister of National Education Édouard Geffray to propose shifting exam times so they don’t take place at the hottest times of day, given the increasingly extreme and early onset of heatwaves in the country.
