Question 4441 — higher education

Summary

Mr. René Pilato alerts the Minister to the Minister of State, Minister of National Education, Higher Education and Research, responsible for higher education and research, on the situation of the Psychomotor Training Institute (IFP) of Sorbonne University. The IFP of Sorbonne University is recognized for the quality of its teaching and trains 150 students each year through a 3-year course. This institute, historic and essential, because he was the first in France and in the world to teach psychomotor skills, is today threatened with disappearance due to total abandonment by the State. This training, although falling under the ministry responsible for higher education, has been deprived of any funding for more than ten years. Although the Île-de-France region has agreed to provide support through an annual subsidy, this only covers one quarter of the sector's expenditure. Faced with this untenable financial situation, Sorbonne University has already mentioned a 75% reduction in staff numbers over the coming years. Furthermore, in a context of budgetary restrictions for communities, the institute would be forced to close completely if the subsidy from the Île-de-France region were to be withdrawn. The consequences would obviously be disastrous, reduction in the number of practitioners leading to problems of access to care for the population and a deterioration of working conditions for health professionals. This disengagement of the State is all the more incomprehensible given that the profession of psychomotor therapist must respond to the growing needs linked to autism, neurodevelopmental disorders, pain, cancer and burn-out. For example, the psychomotor therapist Aurélien D'Ignazio observes in an article for the journal L'Information Psychiatrique the benefits of psychomotor skills in the tactile hypersensitivity of an adult with an autism spectrum disorder. He writes: “Psychomotor care appears to be a useful aspect of this type of care, offering varied sensory devices, in a dynamic and caring framework, while encouraging the verbalization of experiences.” Mr. MP asks the Minister if he can commit to evaluating the financing of this training which, despite the letters sent by Sorbonne University to his predecessors, seems to be at a standstill. He asks him how he intends to coordinate the reduction in the budget allocated to his ministry with the growing needs for training of health practitioners.

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