THE QUESTION.
Would the future of Parcoursup be decided at the polls on Sunday?
In any case, this is what the leader of the union of the left said on Thursday, on the occasion of his program “HelloMélenchon”, broadcast on social networks and in particular Twitch.
“
70% [des 18-35 ans, NDLR] do not come to vote (…) so get moving!
No need to whine in my vest that you are not happy, Parcoursup, nani, nana [sic].
Well come and vote for those who want to stop Parcoursup.
If you want to stop Parcoursup, it's over next week
, ”launched the leader of insubordinate France (LFI).
A desire expressed long ago by Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
Already, during the presidential campaign, he evoked the software in not very flattering terms: a
"vocation breaker where young people only learn to lie by writing ten different cover letters"
.
So is the Parcoursup deletion promise realistic?
Do higher education players want it?
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LET'S CHECK.
The adoption of Parcoursup was recorded by the law of March 8, 2018 relating to the orientation and success of students.
Jean-Philippe Derosier, a jurist specializing in constitutional law, therefore warns:
"No new law can be passed in a week, especially since you have to count the time between the verdict of the legislative elections, the taking up of duties of the deputies and the preparation of the new text, as well as the passage in the Council of State, Council of Ministers.
At the very least, this takes several weeks, but since this will not be used for the start of the 2022 school year anyway, the discussions will surely be postponed for several months in favor of emergencies on the situation of households or purchasing power.
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Another obstacle: the law would have to be passed by Parliament.
“It depends on the majority that the leader LFI will have in the event of victory, the course promises to be strewn with pitfalls”
, he summarizes.
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Researcher Alban Mizzi, Parcoursup specialist, adds:
"The problem is not to delete the site but rather to facilitate access to higher education."
Laurent Champaney, president of the Conférence des grandes écoles (CGE), is more categorical:
“This is an electoralist, populist argument which exploits the number of people affected and their stress.
If Parcoursup were removed, it would have to be replaced by an equivalent system with only a different name but with similar purposes.
A university president adds:
"Let's remember that the predecessor of Parcoursup, APB used the drawing of lots, and even before, you had to queue all night in front of the faculties, so Parcoursup appears to be the best alternative."
A statement confirmed by an Ipsos survey, in 2021, 70% of new baccalaureate holders say they are generally satisfied with the results obtained.
At the end of the complementary phase, 93% of baccalaureate holders, including 97% in the general stream, received at least one training proposal via the platform, as Jérôme Teillard, the head of the Parcoursup project, told
Le Figaro Etudiant
in January. last.
Simplified recruitment procedures
These honorable figures can be explained in particular by better access to information by pupils.
All the data to know and the selection phases are gathered on a single site, whose ease of handling is often praised.
"Before, you had to go to the salons, make considerable efforts to obtain information, whereas now it is available to students in a few clicks"
, praises Laurent Champaney.
He emphasizes
“a system that puts them on an equal footing”
.
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Parcoursup has simplified the process.
No more question of multiplying the applications on a multitude of sites.
Even Sciences Po Paris recently aligned itself, integrating the ranks of the platform in 2020. To oblivion, the dreaded competition.
Candidates must now submit a written file in order to access the oral.
No one knows what would happen to the procedure in the absence of Parcoursup.
In March, on Twitter, Jean-Luc Mélenchon claimed that places had to be created wherever there was a shortage, but with only a 10% admission rate at the rue Saint-Guillaume school in 2022 with 12,000 applications for between 1100 and 1200 seats, hard to imagine how such opportunities could arise.