The cohort of French students is growing every year, and France has never had as many baccalaureate holders as in 2020. But the number of preparatory classes has been contracting since 2017 and the trend will continue in 2021, confirms a ministerial note from the 19th. October (“Forecasts of enrollments in higher education. School year 2020 and 2021”, SIES flash note).
From statistical memory, this is a first.
Privileged students, formatted mentality, hellish pace, harmful requirements: the times are receptive to the indictment of their despisers and nothing contributes to their survival.
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The disenchantment has a threefold origin.
Philosophically, first of all.
Requirement and patience, cardinal virtues of the preparatory model, have become at best objects of astonishment, at worst, hostility.
Pragmatically, then.
A student gets the most desirable positions in the globalized labor market just as easily after being
undergrad '
(the license of the Anglo-Saxon world) as with a diploma
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