► What is the finding? Doubt is growing around the real quality of certain private higher education institutions that have flourished in recent years, significantly changing the landscape of higher education. The share of private establishments has increased to the point that now 24% of students are trained in these schools, some of which are […]
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Private groups and fraudulent practices, when higher education becomes a lucrative business
What do Muriel Pénicaud, ex-Minister of Labour, Martin Hirsch, former boss of the Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, and Guillaume Pepy, long number one of the SNCF, have in common? All joined Galileo, a major player in private higher education in France. Recruitments that illustrate the force of attraction of the sector. “Twenty years ago, everyone […]
Parcoursup 2023: the ministry promises more transparency
Start to find out and think about what’s next… If the registration and wish-forming phase only begins on Parcoursup on January 18, it is possible, from Tuesday December 20, to go to the platform. orientation and admission to higher education to find out about the courses offered. License, BTS, BUT (ex-DUT), preparatory classes or even […]
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 […]
Education: too many fraudulent practices in private higher education
► Why did you launch an investigation? Over the decades, the landscape of higher education has changed a great deal. There is a growing number of private actors, who train 23% of students and some of which, for profit, are owned by investment funds. During the previous five-year period, the ministry wanted to help young […]
The Paréo diploma, an airlock at the entrance to the university for those disappointed with Parcoursup
There is Warren, who last year tried in vain to enroll in BTS international trade. Paula, a young Colombian, refused nursing school and who wants to use this year to perfect her French. Davi, who had started a bachelor’s degree in applied foreign languages, before realizing that the level required in English was beyond his […]
Exhausted, the staff of the Nantes law school want to welcome fewer students
A hundred students took place in amphitheater E of the Faculty of Law and Political Science of Nantes. On the stage, several teachers are about to speak. Not for a lecture but to show them behind the scenes: “For you, everything is normalexplains Frédéric Allaire, professor of public law. But in the engine room, everything […]
Extension of studies, what young people and their parents say
“A little more time to prepare to enter real adult life” Leah21 years old, physiotherapy student “In my field, the duration of the course was increased a few years ago from three to five years. We see more or less the same program as before but more spread out, with the added bonus of more […]
Extension of studies: do we always need more diplomas?
Stop or again? Is it better to be satisfied with one’s diploma or to aim for another and then another? Should we continue with another course, complementary or different, higher, more prestigious, more practical? Many families, many young people ask themselves these questions. With sometimes the idea that studies are in themselves an enrichment, a […]
Precariousness, isolation… In mainland France, the tenfold difficulties of overseas students
It is with emotion but without surprise that Anne-Claire discovered on the Internet the video, which has gone viral, in which Maëlle, a student of Sciences Po, alert, in tears, about her financial difficulties. Like her, this psychology student at the University of Montpellier is 20 years old and comes from Reunion. Like her, Anne-Claire […]