Question 10074 — higher education

Summary

Mr. Manuel Bompard draws the attention of the Minister of State, Minister of National Education, Higher Education and Research, to the systemic difficulties encountered by students holding a psychology degree in accessing master's courses, an essential course for obtaining the title of psychologist. The MP was alerted by a deserving student, unable to continue her course since she refused, for the second consecutive year, access to a master's degree in psychology. This refusal seems to be due to the limited number of places in this course and the algorithmic limits of the My Master platform. This situation illustrates an incomprehensible reality, shared by many young people in the country: obtaining a license in a field as specific as psychology should allow automatic access to a master's degree in its area of ​​training. This is all the more true since the psychology degree, unlike other more general courses, offers very few professional opportunities without continuing with a master's degree. This situation creates an impasse for thousands of students who, after three years of validated higher education, find themselves without any prospect of qualification or professional integration, creating a feeling of injustice. immense and considerable psychological distress. At the same time, the Government makes, in theory, the mental health of young people a priority and has decreed that mental health is the major national cause for the year 2025. It is paradoxical that the orientation and selection system deprives our country of future motivated and competent psychology professionals, whose need in the field is nevertheless glaring. In fact, all Parliamentary reports, health organizations and studies on the subject point to an unprecedented acceleration of depressive episodes among 18-24 year olds as well as an outbreak of suicidal thoughts among middle and high school students, reaching up to 31% in a study conducted by EnCLASS and published by Public Health France. The use of selection procedures which seem to favor algorithmic criteria to the detriment of the analysis of the individual backgrounds, experiences and human qualities of candidates is particularly worrying for a profession centered on human relationships. Consequently, he asks her what concrete measures she intends to take to guarantee opportunities for students holding a psychology degree and to reform the selection methods for master's degrees, by removing the selection by algorithms provided for by My Master's degree. ; this would ensure better consideration of the diversity of candidates' backgrounds and skills as well as the training of a sufficient number of psychologists in the future.

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