Question 14272 — exams, competitions and diplomas

Summary

Ms. Tiffany Joncour alerts the Minister of National Education to the conditions of access to the baccalaureate as a free candidate as well as to the diploma of access to university studies (DAEU), which raise legitimate questions in terms of equal opportunities. In the current state of the law, candidates under the age of twenty registered as independent candidates cannot take, in the same year, the early examinations and the final examinations of the baccalaureate. Furthermore, access to the DAEU is conditional on either a minimum age of twenty years, accompanied by professional activity conditions, or an age of twenty-four years unconditionally. Although these provisions aim to regulate training courses, they can nevertheless produce counterproductive effects. They lead, in practice, to the exclusion of young people who are nevertheless motivated, have the required academic abilities or are committed in a serious approach to resuming studies, by imposing deadlines which are not always based on objective educational considerations. In a context where educational pathways are increasingly diversified and sometimes discontinuous, these restrictions appear as additional administrative obstacles, likely to delay access to a recognized qualification, slow down professional integration and compromise the pursuit of higher education. Therefore, the MP questions the Minister on the relevance of maintaining these age conditions, which can constitute a break in equality between the candidates, based not on their skills or their commitment, but on their personal situation. Consequently, she asks him if he plans to allow free candidates, whatever their age, to run in the same year for all the baccalaureate exams, to relax the conditions of access to the DAEU, in particular by lowering the age thresholds or by removing the prior activity requirements and, more broadly, to adapt these systems in order to better take into account the diversity of paths and to guarantee effective access to training for all.

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