NEW SCHOOLS
(From a Reuter Correspondent Paris)
To keep pace with the rising birthrate and repair the damage done during war, France must build at least 1,000 new classrooms every year for the next six or seven years, according to M. Yvon DelbOs, Minister for National Education. If building is not kept up to this rate, he said, French schools will be overflowing in a few years’ time. Reviewing damage caused by war, M. Delbos said that 44 of France’s 1100 high schools were destroyed and 6900 partially destroyed, leaving 155,000 classrooms available to-day for the whole of France. M. Delbos estimated that it would bo necessary to build 986 new schools for higher education alone. There is no hope of getting anything done until the geenral financial situation in France has been straightened out. Since the liberation, efforts have been solely concentrated on making the best of existing material and patching ’•p binding which had not suffered so much damage.
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Grey River Argus, 24 November 1948, Page 10
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