Question 8468 — technical and vocational education

Summary

France today has 1,484 vocational high schools which train more than 665,000 young people each year (RERS 2017 data: 110,692 students in CAP and 537,898 students in vocational baccalaureate for 2016) alternating into the professional professions of workers, technicians and employees that the country needs, both in the industrial and tertiary sectors. Vocational education provides work-study training for more than 100 professions, with 18 sectors professionals and nearly 600 diplomas/specialties from level V (CAP) to level III (BTS). Furthermore, success in the professional baccalaureate has been between 80% and 82.5% since 2014. 27% of baccalaureate holders for the June 2017 session obtained a professional baccalaureate, i.e. 176,104 admitted which represent 22% of a generation, a proportion much higher than that observed in 2010 before the reform of the professional route (14.2%). At At the end of a period of consultation and following consultations carried out as part of the mission entrusted to qualified personalities, the Minister of National Education, committed to upgrading vocational education, presented, on May 28, 2018, his proposals to create a professional path, with a view to training talents for the professions of tomorrow. The transformation that is underway aims to: bring about a new generation of campuses for professions and qualifications, at the same time places of life, training, innovation and success. bringing training content into line to better respond to the economic challenges of today and tomorrow; defining an ambitious and attractive training offer in conjunction with promising sectors of activity such as digital, energy, or French know-how or the environment, while supporting the transformation of training courses which insert the least; adapt the course to the needs of each person: - the CAP can be prepared in 1,2 or 3 years depending on the profiles of the students; - a more progressive and more readable professional baccalaureate is being put in place: The second professional class is organized by large families of professions bringing together professional skills common to several baccalaureate specialties and the choice of the specialty takes place at the end of the second year. In the final professional year, the student, depending on whether he or she decides to move towards working life or to continue with higher education, can follow a professional integration and entrepreneurship module or a further study module. Bridge classes are also being created in STS from the start of the 2018 school year to better support the success of professional baccalaureate holders in higher education; This reform will also develop the complementarities and articulation between training under school status and apprenticeship. This involves developing apprenticeship in all vocational high schools in order to offer a diversity of paths to students and to secure transitions between the two training methods. All of these measures, including the reinforced complementarity between learning and educational path, in particular through the development of mixed courses supported by the bill for the freedom to choose one's professional future, will consolidate the attractiveness and prestige of the professional path.

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