“There is something indecent about inaugurating a private higher education institution worth 150 million euros when that same year the austerity imposed on public universities has just pushed 60 out of 75 into budget deficit.”
“A provocation to the Republican promise”
Lyon's communist elected official Boris Miachon Debard pulls no punches in reacting to the spotlighting of the very vast new Emlyon campus: “In the 7ewe are proud of our public universities and I would have preferred to inaugurate the extension of Lyon 1, 2, or 3 so that we no longer talk about students without a university at the next school year. » Especially since for him, this private school and its tuition fees are “a provocation of the Republican promise of equal rights and opportunities. »
With a certain taste for the second level, he adds “if, despite everything, I welcome the several thousand emlyon students who are now settling in Gerland, I invite them between two courses devoted to increasing its profitability by reducing its tax base, to focus on a territory whose public finances are definitely less than those of the private sector. »
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