Question 13139 — vocational training and apprenticeship

Summary

Mr. Damien Girard alerts the Minister of Labor and Solidarity on the consequences of the reduction in financial aid for work-study programs in higher education. Work-study training is an essential lever for professionalizing students, which makes it possible to combine academic training and integration into the world of work. This is why it is the subject of public support, in particular through unique learning aid. Thus, in Brittany, many university courses, such as the Masters in Cultures and Transitions at Sciences Po Rennes and Cultural Heritage, Natural Heritage at Bretagne Sud University, include work-study as an integral part of their educational approach. These bac +5 level courses train highly qualified professionals, called upon to exercise non-relocatable professions, at the service of territories, heritage, culture and connections. social. Work-study allows a strong anchoring in the realities on the ground and responds directly to the needs of local cultural actors: associations, local authorities, public cultural establishments, museums, heritage sites... However, reception structures, often financially weakened in the cultural sector (especially associations), cannot bear the cost of welcoming a work-study student alone without the state support. The Government has initiated, through the finance laws for 2025 and 2026, a progressive but significant reduction in public support for work-study programs, which would have direct and immediate consequences: drop in the number of work-study contracts, weakening of the public university courses concerned, decline in access to these professions for the least advantaged students and ultimately weakening of policies cultural and heritage in our territories. Furthermore, the obligation imposed on a student without a contract three months after the start of the school year to leave their training appears incompatible with public service missions. It is not a question here of defending a system in an undifferentiated manner, but of pleading for targeted and reasoned maintenance of work-study assistance for sectors which are fully in the general interest and the sector associative and which do not have access to the same financing capacities as other sectors of activity. If the reduction of the deficit and the fight against certain excesses are justified - in particular those of private training built or developed to capture this financial resource -, this effort cannot have the consequence of weakening essential training in already fragile sectors, such as culture and the sector associative. In this context, he asks what work-study support measures will be reserved for the associative and cultural sector, particularly for bachelor's and master's level training, which are particularly in need.

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