Majestic Study - Being Foreign Law Student in France

It's Day 6 of the confinement.  A French newspaper, Le Monde, reported the situations of foreign students in France in the Coronavirus crisis. Foreign students were recommended to go back to their home country if possible and some went back. But some stayed due to the rise of airplane tickets resulting from multiple cancelations as well as because of the fact that they risk being put into quarantine at their arrival in their own country.  As the article reports, many of them are stuck in a small room without classes to go to, friends to talk to or jobs from which they can make money. Most of the French students have the possibility of going back to their parents' house during this lockdown, but not all foreign students can do so. This is a very hard time for us who study abroad in France. If you are interested in reading more about it (and if you can read French), here is the article. "Tout d'un coup, c'est le vide" : loin de leurs famille...

Universities have closed due to the Coronavirus and many of them are switching to online teaching to ensure the continuity of the education. My university in France is one of them. However, my university, a public university in rural France, does not have the IT infrastructure to implement this substitutional education, at least not immediately. Some professors have been sending their lecture notes via emails or trying to engage a discussion and corrections of exercises on the famous educational platform called Moodle (yes, that exists in France, too). But as I am seeing how it's being done at the moment, I have some suggestions for professors who want to continue teaching online while universities are closed. 1. All the students might not have the means to participate Again, our school is a public university. Public universities do not charge tuition for the education that they offer. Although many scholarships are put in place and it's very common these day...

Another week went by, one week closer to midterms and finals. This year is a little bit different. We don't have revision week(s) before exams nor the traditional exam weeks. We have, instead, midterms and finals successively until the end of the semester.  Let me explain... At the beginning of this year, the government decided that university students should be evaluated throughout the semester to help them succeed in their studies rather than giving them one and only chance at the end of the semester. It seems fair, right? In order to do so, they added more midterms and decided that a final exam should be carried out only a couple of weeks after the class ends (two to three weeks max, if possible).  As a consequence, we have finals immediately after the end of one course instead of having all the exams in the exam weeks at the end of the semester. Up to this point, the reform seems relatively reasonable.  However, the problem is that these exams co...