In ten years, the number of higher students has increased sharply (+ 18 %), while student endowments have dropped ( – 9 %). This development is all the more disturbing since higher education and research are the keys to tomorrow’s economic growth. Faced with this observation, it is essential to make a major investment in higher education and to open up all the selective sectors more. This would unclog non -selective university training, and therefore also significantly increase the endowments by student, while promoting more equitable recruitment in selective training.
France comes up against a Malthusian conception of the production of its educated elites: alongside mass universities in which license failure rates remain abnormally high, ultra-selective sectors are not sufficiently visible in the Global competition. The production of elites in small numbers has proven itself during the “Thirty Glorious Years”, but this beautiful machine has gripped and shows well documented failures today. If many of these establishments, each with their specificity, and not the least, have made the effort to increase their workforce, the saturation of supervisory rates, means and services per student no longer makes it possible to make the necessary progress .
Investing in selective training is not an elite affair: it is providing the greatest number of demanding education while accelerating the release of this dual and unequal model, all of which or almost actors or almost ended up accommodating. The defenders of the suppression of Parcoursup – which, despite the persistent difficulties that this system presents, nevertheless succeeded in establishing a better matching between the skills of the students and their disciplinary orientation, – starting a reduction in the rate of failure in license – Comfort themselves in the acceptance of a university which selects by failure.
extreme duality of the education system
For their part, graduates of ultra-selective institutions, holders of a monopoly annuity ensuring them a powerful lobbying force in large state bodies and large industrial groups, also accommodate the extreme duality From our education system, and want, consciously or not, to keep it. The recent thrust of private institutions looking for juicy income feeds on this polarization of the public higher education system.
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