“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 […]
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In French, more very good students, fewer average students
To those who continually lament “the drop in French level” schoolchildren, the latest edition of the Cedre study (1) provides a timid denial. Carried out every five or six years by the Depp, the national education statistics department, it makes it possible to measure, from a sample, the performance of pupils in reading comprehension and […]
Catholic education shows a drop in the number of students
After a balanced year, the numbers in Catholic education are now clearly on a downward trend, indicated its secretary general Philippe Delorme, Thursday, September 22. A first since 2008. As in the public, the primary is affected by the demographic decline, with 9,000 fewer pupils, even if the very small kindergarten sections, which welcome 2-year-old […]
Increase in the number of students: how is higher education adapting?
► How are student numbers changing? They are on the rise, for the fifteenth consecutive year: 2.99 million students are expected this fall, i.e. 0.8% more than the consolidated numbers for 2021. This increase should continue for several more years, before a probable decline: primary and secondary education should lose half a million students by […]
At school, improving support for students with disabilities
More than 400,000 children with disabilities were enrolled in ordinary schools at the start of the 2021 school year, which represents an increase of 19% compared to 2017. Last year, the national education system also had 125,000 accompanying persons. students with disabilities (AESH), a number up 35% in five years. But behind these encouraging figures, […]
Suggesting that students sing Mozart in Lourdes, an attack on secularism?
A report to the secularism unit of the Ministry of Education. And an angry letter to academic services. Officials of the FSU (Unitary Trade Union Federation) and SNUipp (Unitary National Union of Primary School Teachers, Teachers and General Education Teachers), its union of primary school teachers, went on the offensive, mi -June, in the Hautes-Pyrénées. […]
High school students and students critical of Parcoursup
While high school students have entered the admission phase of Parcoursup since Thursday, June 2, a survey has further tarnished the image of the platform which is not unanimous. Several candidates for the presidential election had also asked for its removal. According to the fourth barometer of confidence in the future of 15–20-year-olds by l’Étudiant […]
Parents of students: members of Apel talk about their commitment
► “We obtained the release of €30,000 to refurbish the canteen” Ludovicsecurity officer, president of Apel at Notre-Dame school, in Bonneuil-sur-Marne (Val-de-Marne) “President of the Apel in my children’s school, I sit, by right, within the Ogec, the Catholic education management body. This allows me to make the voice of parents heard when deliberating on […]
What are parent-teacher associations for?
With the good weather and the calm on the Covid front, the fairs are back. These meetings, largely overshadowed by the pandemic over the past two years, provide parent-teacher associations with an unparalleled window of visibility. “When I joined the PEEP, I underestimated this role of animationrecognizes Laurent Zameczkowski, spokesperson for this federation. I was […]
Presidential 2022, what the parents of Catholic education students propose
Place education at the heart of the campaign, outline ways of improving Catholic education and schools in general. This is the approach of the Association of parents of free education students (Apel), which publishes at the beginning of February a series of proposals for presidential candidates, as it had already done in 2017. → REREAD. […]