University of Tours Budget
The University of Tours had this deficit in 2025.
11 million euros
Higher tuition fees for students from outside the EU following a decree from May 2026.
Differentiated fees (frais d’inscription différenciés)
strike
grève
Mobilized students and staff demand an end to these higher registration fees for students from outside the EU.
differentiated fees
This is a lasting, organized effort by a group to change society or defend a cause. For example, like the high school and university student mobilization.
social movement
Tours ranks this place out of 34 pluridisciplinary universities with a medical faculty for the amount of state funding received per student.
32nd
Licence fee (per year) for French and EU students from 2026.
178 euros
demonstration
manifestation
A high school student interviewed in Tours said teachers are poorly paid and that these are overcrowded.
classes
Many people act together to reach a shared goal, such as a march or a strike. This is called this.
collective action
The university is missing about this much each year to reach the national average.
30 million euros
Licence fee (per year) for a non European student from 2026.
About 2,900 euros
blockade
blocus
Union Solidaires 37 asks for more teachers, school nurses, and these specialists in schools.
psychologists
A feeling that something is unfair can push people to protest. This feeling is called this.
grievance (injustice)
Mobilized staff at the University of Tours warned that this could happen to employment campaigns for the 2027 academic year due to a massive lack of funding.
Hiring freeze (gel de la campagne d’emploi) for 2027
Master fee (per year) for a non European student from 2026.
3,900 euros
struggle
lutte
Mobilised students and staff ask the government to abolish selection systems such as MonMaster and this platform for entering a licence (bachelor's degree).
Parcoursup
This concept from new social movement theory describes the shared sense of “we” that participants actively construct, helping them sustain involvement even when the personal costs of action are high.
collective identity / Alberto Melucci and the new social movement tradition. It shifts the focus away from “who has the time/resources” or “what political openings exist” and toward how people actively create a shared sense of “we,” meanings, and belonging that sustain participation even when costs are high.
To match the funding of Poitiers, Tours would need about this much more each year.
48 million euros
New students from outside the EU now must pay differentiated tuition fees that are this many times higher than what they were previously
16 times higher
demand
revendication
Mobilized staff are against the shift to this new university status defended by the current university president. They argue it would further weaken stable state funding in exchange for uncertain private or performance-based resources.
Établissement Public Expérimental (EPE)
People feel they have less than others, or less than they expected, and this makes them angry. This theory is called this.
relative deprivation (deprivation) / Relative deprivation is the lack of resources (e.g. money, rights, social equality) necessary to maintain the quality of life considered typical within a given socioeconomic group.