Live: French high school, university students call for fresh protests as funding demands grow

French high school and university students were called out to protest again on Thursday, two days after a large turnout demanding more funding, as the government made a series of conciliatory gestures aimed at ending the crisis. Follow our liveblog for all the latest developments. 

Yesterday's key developments:

• An investigation has been opened after a 17-year-old boy suffered a head injury on Wednesday outside a secondary school in Marseille, the local public prosecutor’s office told AFP.
• Student leaders haves urged fresh demonstrations on Thursday, with several teacher unions also calling for new nationwide strikes.
• French PM Sébastien Lecornu has defended police's response to nationwide student protests in a televised address, denying that law enforcement had been instructed to crack down on teenage protesters.