Europe 1 1:23 p.m., October 08, 2021, modified at 1:38 p.m., October 8, 2021

On the occasion of the first "school-business university" in Poitiers, the Minister of National Education explained on Europe 1 how he intended to bring these two often opposing worlds closer together.

Jean-Michel Blanquer details an orientation which aims to present the trades earlier and earlier to the students.

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It is an initiative that is dear to the presidential majority, which came to power with the desire to remove the taboo around entrepreneurship and the business world in general.

Thursday, the National Education inaugurated the first "school-business university" in Poitiers, an event "in the service of training and professional integration", in which participate business leaders, union representatives (excluding FSU ), employers and National Education.

His minister, Jean-Michel Blanquer, was the guest of

La France bouge on

Friday to defend the organization of these days.

"An unbearable paradox", according to Blanquer

"It is essential and urgent to have a link between school and business quite simply for the benefit of our students," said the Minister of National Education at the microphone of Elisabeth Assayag and Emmanuel Duteil, from Poitiers. According to him, there is "an unbearable paradox" at the present time in France: "There are a lot of jobs to be filled and unfortunately not enough people to take these jobs, even though on the other hand, we has young people who would like to integrate into professional life and who are not in these jobs. This obviously relates to issues of orientation, representation of trades, knowledge of trades and relations between young people and the company , and therefore via school, first. "

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