2024-01-02 21:25:40
The Council of State has decided. In a decision rendered on December 29, the high administrative court ordered the government to modify the regulatory provisions governing access to the second year of health studies. The Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, and the Ministers of Higher Education, Sylvie Retailleau, and of Health, Agnès Firmin Le Bodo, have until June to issue a new decree.
The Council of State was contacted in December 2022 by the PASS-L.AS 21 collective, an association of parents who demanded the repeal of the two sectors “specific health access route” (PASS) and “licenses with health access » (L.AS), which have replaced the first year common to health studies (Paces) since 2020. The request aimed to challenge before the Council of State the implicit refusal of the Prime Minister – the author of the decree –, ‘repeal the text. Elisabeth Borne did not respond to a letter sent by the collective in the summer of 2022, which asked to put an end to the “inconsistencies” suffered by students in various faculties.
One of the main complaints concerned a “ break of tie » between the candidates during the oral tests in the new system, says Emmanuel d’Astorg, president of the national PASS-L.AS Collective. Whatever the first year course, access to the second year of health studies depends first of all on written tests. At the end of these, only the best candidates are admitted. All remaining students are then decided by an oral examination.
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This test should make it possible to assess “transversal skills”, unrelated to medical questions. Depending on the university, oral exams can represent between 15% and 70% of the final grade. “ Thus, some students who were very well ranked during the written tests could find themselves excluded during the oral exams, even though they are not prepared for the latter and this test was based on the goodwill of the health faculties. », recalls Emmanuel d’Astorg.
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The Council of State therefore came to remind the government that it belongs to it “ to issue a decree which precisely provides, and at national level, the conditions of access to the second year of the health cycle », explains Marc Bellanger, the collective’s lawyer. Universities will no longer be able to decide unilaterally on the respective weighting of the two groups of tests. “ If this is only a partial censorship of the decree, it still calls into question the second year selection system, which is collapsing », notes the lawyer.
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