After the middle and high school students, it’s the students’ turn to go back to school. Classes resumed on Monday morning at Jean Monnet University. Which welcomes 20,000 students this year, a stable figure for several years.
A cohort supervised by 1,600 teachers and researchers. Unlike high school, the university has no trouble recruiting. “Recruitment is not a problem, explains the president of the UJM, Florent Pigeon, because there is very strong international competition. […] the difficulty is more the credits which are lacking to be able to recruit a lot.
This return to the UJM, it is under the sign of the work that continues on the historic Trefilerie campus, in Saint-Étienne. A project of 36 million euros, necessary for Florent Pigeon: “It was imperative that this campus be renovated to place itself at the highest level of international competition.”