Emmanuel Macron wants to promote synergies with the world of learning. Carole Grandjean, the Minister Delegate, was symbolically placed under the double guardianship of the Minister of Labor and that of Education.
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In the middle of summer vacation, there is a reform in education that continues to be talked about: that of the vocational high school. Emmanuel Macron y “Tien [t] a lot”, as he reiterated during his television interview of July 14. The President of the Republic brushed the main lines of his project by enrolling it in “The Battle of full employment”. The goal is to improve the integration of young people who have gone through these establishments while better meeting business labor needs. It is also a question of promoting synergies between this school path and the world of learning, so that the two systems play the card of complementarity.
Since the creation of the “Bac Pro” in 1985, there are no longer the governments which, on the right and on the left, have opened the site. “The revaluation of vocational education is an eternal beginning”, recalls the historian Vincent Troger. The latest reform was launched in 2018-2019. The objective was already to open apprenticeship training in all these establishments and to make them “Harvard Professionals”, according to the formula of Jean-Michel Blanquer, then Minister of National Education. An opening that remains, at this stage, circumscribed.
But this time, the approach launched by Mr. Macron goes, symbolically, through a change in political piloting. The reform is entrusted to Carole Grandjean, Minister Delegate responsible for professional education and training. The positioning of the position takes on an unprecedented dimension: M me Grandjean is placed under the double guardianship of Olivier Dussopt, Minister of Labor, full employment and insertion, and Pap Ndiaye, His colleague in charge of national education and youth.
high school students in great difficulty
This innovation did not escape the 65,000 teachers on the professional path. Their unions reacted contrasting. The Snetaa-Fo praised a “strong symbol”, recalling that it was necessary to go back to 2001 to find, in the person of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, a delegate minister devoting himself entirely to the subject. For its part, the SNUEP -FSU estimated that a “red line” had just been crossed, denouncing the risk that a third of the 650,000 students registered in these establishments lose school status to switch to that of an apprentice – subject to the bond of subordination to a boss.
The will of the Head of the State starts from the observation that, despite the previous reforms, many high school students in the professional path are in great difficulty and struggle to find a position, after their schooling. In addition, this sector, often associated with a place of relegation, has tertide itself, to the point of finding itself out of step with the needs of our economy.
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