Question 11936 — technical and vocational education

Summary

Ms. Alexandra Martin (Alpes-Maritimes) draws the attention of the Minister of National Education to the consequences of the reform of the national crafts certificate (BNMA) on the entire crafts sector. This reform, initiated and carried out by the general inspection of education, sport and research (IGESR), plans to reduce the training course for future professionals in the artistic professions, by moving it from one cycle from four years (CAP + artistic craft certificate) to a three-year cycle leading to the BNMA. Representatives of the sector and particularly Ateliers d'art de France, a professional union, are concerned about the consequences of the ongoing reform of the national crafts certificate. They regret that it engages without consultation with professionals, teachers, learners and supervisory ministries. In addition, the report of the general inspection dated 2024, on which the reform is based, has still not been made public. Likewise, the reform was initiated in the summer of 2025 with the publication of Decree No. 2025-788 of August 7, 2025, providing for the progressive repeal of seventeen national craft diplomas between September 2026 and the start of the 2028 school year, without prior debate. The announced provisions would lead to a drastic reduction in hourly volumes of training, estimated at 885 hours over the entire cycle, including a 35% reduction in professional teaching, as well as a significant reduction in professional training periods, going from 24 to 30 weeks to only 16 weeks. However, the transmission of excellent know-how specific to artistic crafts relies on long time, practice and repetition of gestures, even though the studies of Art Workshops of France show that it takes around ten years of practice to fully master these professions. It is indeed to be feared that this reform will weaken the quality of training, the professional integration of young people and the sustainability of French know-how, in a sector made up of 80% of one-person companies, which have neither the time nor the means to compensate for the shortcomings of initial training. She further recalls that artistic professions represent more than 60,000 companies, 19 billion euros in turnover and concern more than 10,000 students, spread across 22 specialties and 90 establishments throughout the country. Also, she asks what measures the Government intends to take to guarantee the transparency of this reform, in particular through the publication of the 2024 general inspection report and whether it plans to suspend the reform of the BNMA in order to initiate in-depth consultation with all stakeholders in the sector, while respecting the educational, economic and cultural realities of the artistic professions.

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