France Has Big Classroom Shortage
PARIS (By Airmail)*.—To keep pace with the rising birthrate and repair the damage done during the war, France must build at least 1000 new classi'ooms 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. Reviewing damage caused by war. M. Delbos said that 44 of France’s 1100 high schools were completely destroyed, 110 partially destroyed and 4000 classrooms /were destroyed and 6000 partially destroyed, leaving 155,000 classrooms available today for the whole of France. M. Delbos estimated that it would be necessary to build 986 new schools for higher education alone.
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Northern Advocate, 30 November 1948, Page 8
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