2023-08-22 07:13:00
In a few days, thousands of students will return to school for a new school year. Guest in the 7h50 of Bel RTL Matin, Julien Nicaise, general administrator of Wallonia-Brussels Education answered questions from Martin Buxant.
Many new measures will emerge from August 28: a good way to boost the level of students? “Most of these measures go in the right direction“, he clarifies. “It will be necessary to continue them in the years to come and there will remain work, necessarily“.
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However, our scores in the European school level rankings are stagnating in the soft underbelly. How to explain it? “We are average. It’s not satisfactory, but there are some answers. Repetition is not a good thing, for example. We must act on different levers to pull weaker students up“, answers the general administrator of Wallonia-Brussels Education.
Are we therefore dunces in French-speaking Belgium? “I would say no. There are weaknesses, things to improve, but we also have an education system that graduates hundreds of doctors, teachers or academics. We’re pretty well off compared to the rest of the world“.
The 7:50 a.m. guest
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