Towards a second edition of the baccalaureate upset?
In any case, this will be possible: thanks to an ordinance published in the Official Journal, the government will be able to adapt the terms of the 2021 baccalaureate and other exams according to the evolution of the Covid-19 epidemic, until two weeks before the start of the tests.
The text concerns the “modalities for issuing higher education diplomas, including the baccalaureate”, to which the government can now make “adaptations” throughout the year 2021.
With regard to the tests for examinations or competitive examinations, these adaptations may relate, "in accordance with the principle of equal treatment of candidates, to their nature, number, content, coefficient or organizational conditions, which may in particular be carried out in a dematerialized manner, ”provides the ordinance.
Competitions also concerned
The modifications will have to be communicated "within a time limit which cannot be less than two weeks before the start of the tests", she specifies.
This also concerns certain competitions or examinations in higher education and the civil service.
On Monday, government spokesman Gabriel Attal summed up the spirit of this ordinance at the exit of the Council of Ministers.
"It is a question of anticipating and allowing us to adapt to the needs, the methods of the competitions and the examinations of access to higher education, of obtaining diplomas and access to the public service", had explained Gabriel Attal.
“This ordinance includes […] the baccalaureate and therefore allows it to be adapted if the health situation requires it”, he added.
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