In a previous post we emphasized the fact that Brittany universities were not included in the creation of Campus of Excellencies, or Initiatives of Excellencies (“IDEX”).
Another problem was recently discussed by the Conference of Grandes Ecoles (CGE), and relayed by the newspaper “Le Monde” dated February 15, 2012: the output of the education system without qualifications, the education system being not effective or the base or at the top. This same problem was also studied by the Thomas More Institute (“Comparative analysis of education systems in seven countries”) and reach the same conclusions.
The Conference is based on the work of the OECD on the grade level of 15 years (PISA) and PIRLS (Progress in International Reading Literacy Study) that assess reading performance of children aged 9 -10 years. Conclusion: “the skills learned in primary and secondary deteriorate.”
As tipped by CGE “for twenty years, 150,000 young French people leaving school without a diploma each year, representing about 3 million people in twenty years, a real social time bomb.”
The Thomas More Institute completes this analysis: “among these 150,000 young people, 40,000 leave without any qualifications. More in detail, this means that each year between 8,000 and 10,000 young people leave school at the college, that 15,000 drop in second or first ( before french “ baccalauréat”).
Among them, it should be noted that 11% of children of workers and 32% of inactive children leave school without qualifications, against 1% of children of teachers or managers. ”
Obviously, these outputs of the school system are particularly limiting: well, these “early leavers” know then enormous difficulties to integrate into the labor market and are in fact only 45% for employment.
Regarding the top of the pyramid: “France, laments the CGE, has invested little in its higher education and research, even with the consistent efforts of the current legislature, and has dropped out with its main partners.”
Which explains the proposed measures, radical: simply change the educational paradigm (by challenging the race to higher education and allowing universities to select students) and to invest 20 billion euros over a decade (to be shared between government, businesses and families), as just suggested Mr. Louis Vogel, president of the Conference of University Presidents.
It means that, the tuition fees would increase in the Superior up to 3000 Euros per year (business schools already largely exceed these amounts), payable in five years after graduation, according to salary. The tuition fees would benefit of a tax deduction of 50% for ten years.
In return for this investment of the nation at the top of the system, high schools would commit to implement multiple measures to diversify the origin of their students. They propose, in addition, to support those who leave without a degree system.
CGE proposes to create “institutes horizons trades” throughout. Young greeted would pass two-thirds of their time in business and third in the schools themselves.
Especially, opposed to the political surrounding discourse the CGE believes that pushing students too far in studies is not the solution to fight against unemployment of young people. What is important in the eyes of CGE is must exist “a high quality training at every level. ”
“We must get out, said the CGE, from an intellectualism that does not give their credentials to crafts and manual, while we are short of skilled labor in these professions.”
This does not exclude the study of the “Princess of Cleves” , from Madame de La Fayette, on the contrary…
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