Announcements that could arrive in mid-March. The Minister of Education, Pap Ndiaye, who will soon present his plan on school and social diversity, spoke on Wednesday at the microphone of France Culture, various levers of action to promote it, hoping in particular that private education under contract ” increases its proportion of scholarship students”.
Pap Ndiaye has made the subject of school and social diversity a priority for his action. Pap Ndiaye thus evoked as a means of action “districting, which was done for example in Paris for high schools”. “We can act by creating sections of excellence” in disadvantaged areas, “which make it possible to maintain a school population which otherwise would go away”, he assured.
International sections in underprivileged establishments
“I decided that all the international sections would be created in underprivileged colleges and high schools,” he proposed. Another track studied, that of “pairs of colleges, which are both geographically close, but which are very contrasting socially”. “We were able to identify in France 200 pairs who could be the subject of such a rapprochement”, he announced, recalling that this was done in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, “with very good results” .
“We can also operate by including private education under contract, so that this education also participates in this effort of social and academic diversity”, he recalled, as he had done in a forum published in The world end December. According to Pap Ndiaye, we must “find an agreement”.
A scholarship rate of less than 10% in the private sector
“We are in exchange with private education under contract to reach, I hope, a memorandum of understanding, by which it will engage in an approach which will increase the proportion of scholarship holders in the establishments concerned”, hammered the Minister, emphasizing that the State finances these establishments up to 75%.
The rate of scholarship holders in private education under contract “is currently less than 10%, too low in view of the social composition of our school workforce”, he regretted. There are, however, “two pitfalls to avoid: not asking for anything and letting it happen, -it’s a bit like the current situation-” and “waking up the school war”, which is “not at all my intention”, has he wanted to clarify.