Pécresse law responds to a serious diagnosis: higher education is inequitable, inefficient, and tends to inhibit social mobility rather than encourage it. However
its levers of actions will have serious consequences, which could tarnish its profits as its stock is finally negative.
selection
1 On 2 On 3 On the professionalization
social mobility
4 On the economics and politics of the LRU
5 On cooperation
1 On the Selection:
Before all you have to cut short the rumors that there is no selection in more university before the tray 5. Selection exists Fac. Not at the time of registration, but at the time of examinations for the year's work. the Law, to Aix is:
30% success in first year.
50% in the second.
50% in the third.
In some fields saturated, as in English, the success rate in the first year is 10%. It is virtually impossible for a student who is not already bilingual arriving to get out of this blind selection. Training by correspondence type those organized by the Sorbonne sidings, voluntarily more demanding, hence only extract themselves exceptional profiles.
can not complain at the time young people are selected to college and that 20% leave the university without a diploma.
Then "no entry selection" option lets you change almost freely. The Sorbonne and Assas ask to go to committee in order to enroll after a course in another faculty. Even coming from the sacks of Aix and Lyon.
2 On the professionalization:
First point: the difficulty to reorient themselves. After three years of Law, I sought to integrate economic sector, which attracted me more. I had to come in second this year DEUG, rather than enroll in BAC +4 Right. In short, the deadweight loss two years of study. More of my scholarship. The marginal cost of a student is, however ridiculous, and I would have had no degree that I would not have succeeded at the end of the year.
Second point: the shortage of positions in professional courses (mostly BTS, IUT, engineering schools, IAE, DESS).
We can not let a system of polytechnics with super-efficient and so little room to complain about the lack of professionalization of the streams. Triple Spaces IUT and BTS would be more expensive but all the seats were taken and that the training would be expected by firms (to which a frame profile + IUT School or DESS often sell better than a profile Prep + School or DESS).
The IUT, they are not sacks, but the university.
From the perspective of alternative schools, schools of Ingé Polytech 'and quasi business schools IAE give excellent training and business-oriented (we also note the excellent Institute of Communication and Media Grenoble). Their success is growing.
5 billion per year is ridiculous compared to the delay. This reform was completely taken with. Do not try to make the BTS or the IUT in the Faculty lecture halls with 700 people, because it will not work. Besides the "Licenses-Pro" is much closer to the IUT as licensing powers.
Conversely, faculty in the student enjoys a considerable degree of anonymity after 15 years in school, college and high school where our reputation is important to us note that our work, and a certain calmness that allows him to spend years to embrace the world as he wants.
Moreover, rather than letting them die slowly Facs of Letters will not find companies to fund and which diminish the quality of their lessons at the same time as the number of their students, it would be better to offer students alternatives more easily adjustable. The solution is the first human-sized BTS-IUT, their high level of demand, their continuous assessment, and orientation. It is imperative to at least double their resources and communicate extensively in high school on their benefits.
3 On social mobility:
Indeed there is a real problem of social mobility in France. Do not forget the pathological reluctance of companies to respect the young, old, those who were in college, those who have not done the business school's most famous, those who have done something else , the versatile, those who do not have the nose to the grindstone, those who are ugly or do not look "as necessary" (primary source of discrimination in France) ... All this for an internship or a precarious contract. Internship offers are provided on condition of experience and qualifications already validated. The degradation of the image of the company is demotivating. It is a policy of social responsibility we will drop those blinders.
We have tens of thousands of jobs unfilled. In front of millions of unemployed recognized as such or disposed of official statistics (students who take pleasure not to find themselves unemployed and without purse or RMI, in training, looking for a part-time, looking for a CDI, available at the end of their notice ... plus all panky which alarms the official statistics of the EU since Jospin: first radiation massive disincentive to early campaigns appear to agencies.
The ball is in the hands of businesses, which must again accept risk-taking, their share of training on the job "and their role in social mobility in a society that is more meritocratic.
Companies are made of men, that promote nepotism, cooptation or prefer the most selective courses (although selection is made especially considering the size of the portfolio in a business school for training very close to the PSI or less highly rated schools). So it is a social question which translates economically.
4 On the economics and politics of the LRU:
We've already said why 5 billion is insufficient. This law, like decentralization Raffarin seeks to disengage the state from its obligations to direct funding, thus included in the standards of economic stability pact of the EU.
However, companies will not be arranged overnight, by patriotism, to pay the training of students without compensation. Some of these counterparties will be reasonable and positive, improve employability, but others will be less legitimate. Do we want a university as docile as are the media with respect to their advertisers? Could I write a brief review on the DADVSI or the excesses of the EU on the eve of the European Constitutional Treaty, if my manager was afraid of losing their funding or if the Dean had called to order?
Moreover, this funding, companies will take it somewhere. This is not somewhere dividends to their shareholders, but consumers' pockets. Decentralization has led to record tax burden, the law on university reform even further erode the purchasing power.
companies now prefer to pay their tax to the state rather than an organization of training they may require several trainees. It's absurd but telling their indifference to the problem of training.
Faculties still have the amount of their entries set by decree, but a decree is changing overnight by the executive. It is also the case with franchises. In the absence of any guarantee, we could have some funny surprises.
5 On cooperation
If some turf wars rust mechanisms of collaboration between universities, the introduction of competition among universities (to be fierce especially in the early reduction in the number of universities) is likely to aggravate this slope. Competition can potentially lead to the opposite result, assuming it will indirectly benefit from efforts to attract financial and excellence will itself be an argument (among others) in this direction. Moreover since
the "new European approach, it is businesses that require scientific studies showing that their products are not harmful. So far, university laboratories controlled to ensure the results of their sincerity, but it will be difficult to believe the findings on GMOs Monsanto and university labs funded directly by the company.
Conclusion:
The University will not recover alone: the chains of the Faculties are now expedient to avoid unemployment, insecurity, lack to be given his chance by a company. This is certainly not their duties, and only an investment in BTS-IUT curricula, or proto Schools of Engineering or Business will provide the labor market for graduate business and channel the students into promising businesses.
This will require significant investment and a change in attitudes of the business that are not guaranteed by the Act of August 10, 2007, called the law Pecresse. This law will only be a patch on a wooden leg, and n'au
ra for only merit of reducing public expenditure and to drain funds Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences without solving the problems of their students. A government intervention was necessary. Given the economic and social failure of higher education, the approach was to let companies take the University "by the purse" to their advantage to take into account the demands of the market. The benefits of this reform "partial privatization" are real, but could also have been resolved differently and with far less negative consequences.
Images: Two schools of Aix-en-Provence separated by a simple barrier since 1968:
The Faculty of Law, with its marble and glass interior, with its courtyard fountain sculpture, columns, his rose garden.
The Faculty of Letters, which looks like a huge bar surrounded by screens in HLM corolla
to prevent the falls of the wall coverings do not cause serious injury.
Recently, the Faculty of Law is equipped with air conditioning Algerco (!) For TD. But has not waived its preferred caterer: Black Truffle.
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