Angers university : the state allocations didn't increased as quick as the number of students

January 12th will be an important day for the Angers university. Its president, Jean-Paul Saint-André, will be received at the ministry of higher education and research in order to get some supplementary credits. "The Angers university faces a critical situation. That doesn't come from a bad management but to a transfer on universities resources of expenses they don't master", mentions the Angers university on the front page of its website which, moreover, displays a video about its finances.

That was not the case a few weeks ago while the financial deterioration was already official. The Angers university would be unable to balance expenses and receipts for the third successive year. "€ 4 millions are lacking", indicates the website "and the allocation granted by the ministry doesn't allow to Angers university to run normally". The situation worries not only teachers but also students : more than 1 100 of them have launched an appeal to demonstrate in Angers streets the same January 12th. Classes and exams will be interrupted a part of that day

That situation led the board of the university to refuse to pass a 2013 budget in the loss. In 10 years the number of students rose from 15 500 in 2001 to 20 200 in 2011, an increase of 30%. On the last fiscal year, the number increased by 9% against 1,5% ten years ago. According to figures disclosed by local medias, the number of foreign students has tripled between 1988 and 2008 to about 2 300 persons, about 11% of the total of Angers students.