2024-12-18 05:07:00
This Wednesday we access the 2025 training map of Parcoursup. The opportunity for graduating students to start thinking about their direction over the Christmas holidays. Jérôme Teillard, head of the Parcoursup project at ministry of higher education and research, answers questions 20 minutes about using this platform known to be a source of stress for families of high school students considering higher education.
What information is available from this Wednesday? And is there any news for 2025?
From this Wednesday we will update the map of the training courses offered for the start of the 2025 school year and available to the entire public so that high school students and their parents have all the elements to develop their orientation project.
Among the new features this year, an interactive tool that allows high school students to see the profile of admitted candidates by entering their type of high school diploma and the two specialty courses of the last year (for the general high school diploma) , as well as their overall average . He has access to very concrete results: the percentage of high school students with a profile comparable to his who have received offers of admission in the last three years and the academic profile of high school students who have chosen to join the training.
The platform already offered job placement rates for BTS training courses. From January 15th we will also find the future of students (in work, studies, etc.) for 75% of the training offered.
We will also have salary information, twelve months after students have finished training. Our goal is to provide clear, rich and useful information.
How to use the platform correctly?
We must understand the information on the platform as an opportunity to open our perspectives, to exchange with teachers and students of higher education. When you’re a high school student, you often think there’s only one path to starting a career. The reality is that on Parcoursup there are many different training paths that lead to the same professional environment, but sometimes we only knew one.
From 2023 you can create an account on Parcoursup even if you are not a high school diploma candidate. Last year 193,000 users took advantage of this possibility. One of the right answers to the question of stress associated with the transition to higher education is to anticipate it. We know from the CSA Parcoursup barometer that more than seven in ten students report having discovered training on Parcoursup and are interested in post-diploma orientation well before their senior year. And it is better to avoid concentrating the challenge of discovering these courses only in the last year.
We want to prevent candidates from being overconfident and self-censoring. We know, for example, from research that girls, in the absence of quantitative information, are much more likely to refrain from wanting selective education than boys. What we want is to fight these prejudices. We must encourage the autonomy of high school students and encourage them to diversity with ambitious desires of reason and others of security.
Is Parcoursup a consolidated system, seven years after its launch?
The device is broken. But of course we continue to improve the tool as best we can, based on feedback from previous generations. By construction, access to higher education is a delicate transition. We are about to leave high school, our environment, and sometimes our parents, and as a wide range of choices opens up, this produces anxiety.
I want to remind you that Parcoursup is only a first choice, and that you can reorient yourself and change your training. Last year, 169,000 students registered on Parcoursup to reorient themselves [la réorientation est possible via des passerelles à l’université ou à travers Parcoursup].
Last year, out of 645,000 high school students registered on the platform, they had not found training at the end of September. Of course we continued to accompany them afterwards.
Graduating students will have to express their wishes online, between January 15, 2025 and March 13, 2025.
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