The financial problems of Angers university didn't rallied Angers students

About 1 000 students were in the streets of Angers on January 15th demonstrating against the insufficient allocation their university has received from the French ministry of higher education and research. One thousand persons is not a very important figure compared to the importance of the situation and compared to the number of students of Angers university, more than 20 000... Moreover, there were not only students who demonstrated in down town, but also teachers and trade unions representatives of the campus.

That proportion could have many meanings. January is generally a period dedicated by students to work on mid-year exams. So some of them were not available that day. But some demonstrators could have the same constraint. More generally, that week involvement may indicate a focusing on one's inner self in spite of an accumulation of short and long term difficulties for young people today : work, housing, money...

The Angers mayor, Frédéric Béatse, and the university president, Jean-Paul Saint-André, were in the cortege; That last havd an appointment the same evening at Paris to get supplementary resources (€ 4 millions are needed to balance the 2013 budget). According to M. Saint-André who considers Angers is one the most poorest universities of France, the financial situation is "critical".