French Education Minister Gabriel Attal said on Tuesday he was in favour of trialling school uniforms or a dress code amid a debate over a ban in state-run schools on abaya, the loose-fitting ...

French lawmakers on Thursday rejected a proposal by the far-right National Rally (RN) to make uniforms compulsory in France’s public schools and colleges.

The mayor of Provins, east of Paris, Olivier Lavenka (LR), can testify to these difficulties, having experimented with uniforms in six schools in his town between 2018 and 2020.

This week, we focus on a recurring debate in France: should uniforms be obligatory in schools? The issue has come up again after the far-right National Rally proposed a bill to make uniforms ...

Uniforms stopped being obligatory in French schools in 1968, but discussion of their reintroduction has returned amid an outcry over the decline of discipline in schools. “I don’t think that the ...

Last week, French Education Minister Nicole Belloubet announced a series of changes to come into effect at the start of the 2024-2025 school year, including a ban on smartphones in lower-secondary ...

French Education Minister Gabriel Attal said on Tuesday he was in favour of trialling school uniforms or a dress code amid a debate over a ban in state-run schools on abaya, the loose-fitting ...

This week, we focus on a recurring debate in France: should uniforms be obligatory in schools? The issue has come up again after the far-right National Rally proposed a bill to make uniforms ...