Cécile’s son (1) started an engineering school this year. On several occasions during his training, he will have to carry out internships in companies. So, the mother of the family anticipates: “What if he doesn’t find an employer?” I wonder what I should say to her, if I’m supposed to help her…” Project manager in […]
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Parcoursup 2023: wishes, results, news… What you need to know
Last year, 936,000 applicants, two-thirds of whom were final year students, registered on Parcoursup. The post-baccalaureate orientation platform opens on Wednesday January 18 for candidates for the 2023 edition. More than 21,000 training courses are offered. ► Who can register? Are concerned by Parcoursup high school students or students and active in search of a […]
Guidance in high school, a booming market
Finding your way and knowing which door to knock on to get there is well worth a few hundred euros. This is at least the reasoning of many parents who, faced with a system perceived as increasingly selective, have recourse to the services of guidance counselors or coaches for their high school child. On the […]
GPT Chat: Is artificial intelligence the new school cheating paradise?
Imagine software capable, from a question, of laying out a correct copy at top speed, receiving a score of 12 out of 20. Three paragraphs with arguments on the stakes of the Battle of the Somme, a physics exercise on the molar mass, writing in French by Flaubert or Spanish by Cervantes… ChatGPT has the […]
The disconcerting census at 16
Evening meeting in a Parisian Catholic high school on the theme of the French baccalaureate. At the bend of a question from parents of students, an alert sentence: “It is therefore necessary to carry out the census of your child from the age of 16. » Slight wavering in the room. Everyone plunges their noses […]
Orientation of students: confused parents
“Orientation is the jungle! », exclaims Marie, mother of five children. It’s not easy indeed to make your way to studies and employment when the landscape appears dense and the information lush, sometimes reliable, sometimes much less. Nor is it easy for parents to support a young person, especially when he has trouble planning for […]
Power cuts at school: staff and parents denounce potential closures
He “There will be no school in the morning” this winter in areas subject to scheduled power outages. The announcement of the Minister of Education Pap Ndiaye, Thursday 1er December, did not fail to make the unions of parents of pupils, teachers and heads of establishments react. It intervenes in a context of energy crisis. […]
The defender of rights revives the debate on sex education courses
This is one of the recommendations of the annual report of the defender of rights, presented Thursday, November 17: guarantee and strengthen sexuality education (EAS) “to make children more aware of the right and respect for privacy”. The courses provided for by law are not “still not effective”, points out Claire Hédon, who is relaunching […]
Mathematics, favorite specialty of high school students more than high school girls
The Minister of National Education, Pap Ndiaye, announced, Sunday, November 13, the return of mathematics “for all high school students» from the start of the 2023 school year. The discipline had become optional since the Blanquer reform of the baccalaureate, adopted in 2018. The literary (L), economic (ES) and scientific (S) streams had been replaced […]
High school: the return of math in the common core does not remove all doubts
It was a campaign promise from Emmanuel Macron: mathematics finds the common core of high school. From the second, for high school students “in great difficulty” faced with the subject, the Minister of National Education announced a “reconciliation module”which adds an hour and a half per week. For first year classes in the general stream, […]