Question 18836 — higher education

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Ms. Sabine Rubin questions the Minister of Higher Education, Research and Innovation about the crude manipulations that affect the counting of the number of requests for prior acceptance (DAP) from non-EU students. MM. Gérald Tenenbaum and Thomas Stoll, professors of mathematics at the Institut Élie Cartan de Lorraine in Nancy, recently challenged the university community on methods for less doubtful accounting of Campus France figures. Indeed, until March 31, 2019, the accounting of DAP for non-community students was done as follows: each student formulated three wishes in order of preference. If the file was accepted by the university, only one request was counted. In the event of refusal for the first wish, the second wish was therefore examined subsequently, accounting for two requests. Finally, if the first two wishes were refused, the third was processed, thus counting three requests for the student. However, since April 1, 2019, the three wishes formulated by the future student are no longer prioritized. In doing so, we now count three requests per student, which makes it possible to artificially increase the number of DAPs for non-EU students. As an example, Mr. Stoll thus maintains that for the University of Nancy alone, there were 196 applications for L1 in computer science, to be compared with the 223 applications processed over the entire previous year. Apart from the fact that this system could saturate the admissions committees, which must now examine three virtual applications simultaneously, it is likely to arouse real suspicion around the figures put forward by Campus France. In particular to legitimize the “Welcome to France” system, strongly contested by the university community, which induces a considerable increase in registration fees for non-community foreigners, going against the universality of knowledge and its non-commodification which was at the heart of the humanist traditions of the French university. Manipulating numbers can have serious implications for the transparency necessary for the evaluation of public policies, thereby depriving both the national representation and the Government of objective criteria allowing a calm analysis of the effects induced by the “Welcome to France” system. In these circumstances, it wishes to know what it intends to do to remove any suspicion surrounding the figures given to assess the volume of DAP for non-EU students.

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