"This concerns several hundred schools and several hundred thousand candidates": all the tests for entrance exams to the grandes écoles will be rescheduled between June 20 and August 7, announced Friday the Minister of Higher Education Frédérique Vidal.
These are all entrance exams to the grandes écoles at the end of the preparatory classes (for example business and management such as HEC or Essec or engineering schools such as Centrale or Polytechnique).
"In terms of logistics, all health measures will be taken to guarantee the safety of candidates and supervisors," said the minister on Europe 1.
A committee is going to floor on sanitary conditions
A steering committee chaired by Caroline Pascal, dean of the General Inspectorate for Education, Sport and Research, has been set up to monitor the organization of the competitions.
The tests of the competitive exams for the grandes écoles "reprogrammed between June 20 and August 07", announces Vidal https://t.co/JIhfz7Z2mF
- Europe 1 🎧🌍📻 (@ Europe1) April 17, 2020"He will continue his work," said Frédérique Vidal. "From the beginning of next week", he will work for example on "the preparation of the rooms" and the "volume" which will be necessary to comply with sanitary conditions.
"Schools, especially military, with special recruitment constraints may provide under their legal responsibility for additional tests, in accordance with this schedule," said in particular the Ministry of the Armed Forces, in a press release with the other ministries concerned.
Back to school dates a priori maintained
"The candidates will have access to their classification by school at the latest on August 8, for a start of the appeal procedures from August 12 at the latest, in order to allow the maintenance of the dates of the re-entry of September", specifies still the press release.
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The minister did not specify whether the oral examinations for schools in the literary and scientific fields would be maintained or canceled, specifies Europe 1. The oral examinations for business schools, they were canceled at the end of March.