2023-11-23 17:12:13
The reform of the vocational high school is taking shape. The Minister for Vocational Education and Training, Carole Grandjean, detailed this Wednesday the announced reorganization of the final year. Consultations between professional sector unions and the ministry have just ended on this subject, but the main teaching unions are opposed to it and are calling for a strike on December 12 to demand the “withdrawal of the professional sector reform”. “.
Carole Grandjean’s wish is to make the final year on the professional track “more modular for high school students depending on whether they want to enter employment or continue their studies”, she explained in an interview with newspaper The world.
“A thirty-week common core”
From the start of the 2024 school year, the final year “will consist of a common core of thirty weeks, divided into twenty-two weeks of courses, six weeks of training periods in a professional environment, the organization of which remains flexible, then two weeks of “exam which will take place at the end of May”, detailed the Minister Delegate. “The final year will therefore be redesigned according to a format which allows more fundamental teaching, maths, French, history-geography, moral and civic education” and “to better prepare the project of the “student,” she assured.
If the young person wishes to work directly after the professional baccalaureate, they will have six weeks of additional internship (i.e. 12 in total) linked to their future job. If he wants to continue his studies, he will have six weeks of “disciplinary and methodological reinforcement”. According to her, the system will be “flexible”. “A student may change his or her mind during the six weeks and switch to an internship or preparation for further studies.”
Another change, announced in the spring, was the overhaul of the training menu. Emmanuel Macron, who made vocational high schools a “national cause”, announced that the training map would be transformed by 2026, in order to encourage the orientation of students towards professions in shortage.
Training “which does not allow for a good integration rate nor a good rate of continuation of studies must be reconsidered,” Carole Grandjean declared on Wednesday. “The objective is to transform the quarter of these training courses whose rates are the lowest, so that they are no longer offered to students at the start of the 2026 school year,” announced the minister.
Asked about these training courses, the delegate minister assured that “it is not a question of closing a diploma which meets a need but rather of working on an evolution of content by doing, for example, an optional work”.
Furthermore, “other training courses may be closed to allow (the opening) of training courses for the future, with a redesigned offer on digital technology, renewable energies, cybersecurity, etc.,” added Carole Grandjean. Measures have already been put in place this fall, such as paying high school students during their internship or the creation of “business offices” in high schools.
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