A website and a smartphone app: the government will present Thursday "a real revolution" in lifelong learning, promises the Minister of Labor, Muriel Penicaud, in an interview to the Journal du Dimanche . "The mobile application My training account and the accompanying website are a real revolution," says the minister, for whom "they will allow our country to enter a society of skills" and recalls that " one job out of two will evolve deeply within ten years ".
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The personal training account (CPF) "existed since 2015, but it was virtual: barely 2 million French have used it," says Muriel Pénicaud, explaining that "from Thursday, this right becomes real for 25 million employees" . "We are building a new public service that creates a right attached to the person, much like a Training Booklet A", she explains, stressing that "at least 100,000 training sessions will be immediately available on the website. application, for more than 40,000 "different" formations.
Reduce qualification gaps
To avoid "bogus" training, "only accredited organizations preparing for a professional title or a diploma can be referenced," explains Muriel Pénicaud: "We will therefore find only training having a value on a CV". The Minister of Labor recalls that "the first marker of unemployment is the lack of training", which affects "6.5% of qualified people against 18% of non-qualified".
If executives of large groups benefit, "the others, much less," she says. "But the lack of continuing education increases pre-existing differences in qualifications, which helps to block the social upheaval." "In 1971, when Jacques Delors launched the idea of lifelong learning, she was a humanist, and now she is becoming an economic and social necessity," Muriel Pénicaud summarizes.