Question 5085 — higher education

Summary

Ms. Zahia Hamdane alerts Ms. Minister of State, Minister of National Education, Higher Education and Research on the recent evaluations of the High Council for the Evaluation of Research and Higher Education (HCERES) which directly threaten the future of training at the University of Picardie Jules Verne (UPJV) and, more broadly, on the increasing exploitation of this organization for restructuring purposes budgetary. Universities have been sounding the alarm for years. Rather than responding, the Government chose to worsen the situation by cutting a billion euros from the higher education and research budget in 2025, even though the country is already behind international standards. France invests less per student than the OECD average. Result: understaffed universities, precarious training and ever-increasing numbers of students facing degraded study conditions. In this context, HCERES distributes opinions which resemble condemnations. These seem to be much less sincere diagnoses than pretexts for cutting sectors. At the UPJV, several training courses in philosophy, human and social sciences, ergonomics and educational sciences are directly threatened. They are criticized for declining success rates, a lack of professionalization and an international openness considered insufficient. How could universities strangled by years of underinvestment do better with ever less? The opinions issued by HCERES seem to follow a very specific ideological orientation: weakening sectors which do not align with the immediate demands of the market and increasingly weaken fundamental research and the human sciences. It is unacceptable that training courses are threatened with disappearance without corrective measures having been proposed, without in-depth analysis of their specificities and without taking into account the conditions in which they operate. The Minister cannot ignore the fact that these evaluations now serve as leverage to justify the elimination of training, in an accounting logic that has nothing to do with academic excellence. What are the safeguards that guarantee that HCERES evaluations will not serve as an alibi for arbitrary closures of training at the UPJV and in other universities? Why have these assessments become so punitive and ideologically biased? Does the Government assume that HCERES is no longer a tool for improving training but an instrument for their liquidation with a view to privatizing higher education? Higher education and public research are pillars of emancipation and social and economic progress. They cannot be driven by a logic of austerity and brutal selection. Through cuts and closures, public higher education is losing its rank. When it's too late, who will take responsibility the consequences? She asks him his position on the subject.

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