Question 17522 — higher education

Summary

Ms. Colette Capdevielle draws the attention of the Minister of National Education to territorial inequalities in access to public higher education establishments, particularly in psychology degrees. Despite very high demand on Parcoursup, the difficulties of accessing this training vary considerably depending on the territory. In New Aquitaine, the Bordeaux rectorate has only one public structure offering degree in psychology: the University of Bordeaux. With a capacity limited to 300 places, it must absorb the demand of five departments, or 7,887 applications in 2025. For comparison, the Rennes academy offers an offer three times greater with 940 places distributed between the University of Brest and that of Rennes, even though the two academies have a comparable high school population. The Toulouse rectorate also displays much higher capacities with 980 places between the University of Toulouse and that of Albi. Although the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region also includes the academies of Poitiers and Limoges, academic sectorization limits access. The Parcoursup platform applies a strict priority per rectorate: applying to a university outside your academy of residence is considered as an “outside sector” wish, with rates access for non-residents below 5%. With no real alternative, high school graduates who can do so turn to training abroad, at very high costs. Many of them do not return to France once they have obtained their diploma. This talent drain raises questions in a national context of glaring needs for psychologists, particularly in rural areas. Furthermore, to territorial inequalities are added social inequalities: what about students who cannot afford to study abroad? While mental health has been made a major national cause for two years, she asks what measures the Government intends to implement in order to increase and harmonize the reception capacities of psychology training in the territory and if it plans, at the same time, to encourage the creation of delocalized branches of training to break geographic monopolies.

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