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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
Among the 25-34 year olds, one in two French people is now a graduate
A tipping point has just been reached: in 2021, among 25-34 year olds, France had as many higher education graduates (50%, i.e. two points more than a year earlier) as people left the system. education with a baccalaureate, a CAP, or even without any qualification. This is one of the lessons of the study “Views […]
Health studies: is oral medicine unfair?
Can we select future doctors on their general knowledge? This is the question posed by students and a union of doctors, following the reform of health studies. Sacha, a first-year student, said on Twitter that she had been turned down, despite a “20 in Anatomy” and one “19 in Embryology”because she did not know the […]
For doctoral students, a prestigious diploma and an often precarious status
Spend most of his time on his thesis, supposed to be completed in three years? Or lose him to finance his research with odd jobs? Alexandre, in the third year of a doctorate in letters and human sciences in a Parisian university, turned the problem around before finding a middle way, which he describes as […]
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 […]