²The Parcoursup Ethics and Scientific Committee (CESP) set up to study the platform independently has issued its fourth annual report.
The members of the CESP insist on the improvements made since the creation of the platform but nevertheless issue several recommendations in order to continue this optimization.
They propose in particular the abolition of selective streams, a better orientation of students or the harmonization of the ratings of high schools between them.
It is a magnet for criticism in the public debate on higher education, but Parcoursup sometimes takes on the role of scapegoat.
In any case, this is the speech given in the introduction to the fourth report of the Ethics and Scientific Committee of Parcoursup (CESP), an independent body, which delivered its conclusions on Wednesday.
Because if a lot of tensions are concentrated around this tool which replaced the Post-baccalaureate Admission (APB) in 2018, it is not responsible for all the difficulties encountered during this pivotal period for secondary school students who are preparing to enter higher education.
Nevertheless, several improvements can be made to the platform and the elements surrounding it, according to CESP experts.
A return to the hierarchy of wishes
Among all the committee's suggestions to further improve the system, the return to the hierarchy of wishes, in particular after the closure of the main phase for candidates still awaiting a proposal in mid-July, in any case after the baccalaureate exams , in order to speed up the admission procedure.
Because if 94% of graduates receive a proposal, “the procedure is still too long, it can discourage and stress candidates who sometimes take more than two months to receive their proposals”, points out Catherine Moisan, member of the committee.
This proposal, such as support from the original establishment for orientation, the creation of quotas for certain graduates in popular courses, the strengthening of the offer of short courses, had already been set out by the committee in the previous reports.
The selective training in question
The CESP also targets selective training for which it makes several recommendations: overbooking for those who do not fill and do not go to the end of their call list;
the increase in the number of classified candidates for those who do not complete their classes, by at least 10%;
finally, the selective nature in itself is called into question by the members of the committee who consider that “the distinction between selective and non-selective training is no longer relevant today given the ranking achieved by all the training”.
Indeed, for the committee, selective training “constitutes an obstacle to admission” judging that it is “more characterized by the rate of access than by the possibility of refusing candidates”.
Thus, the committee proposes a radical solution: “to abolish legislatively, in the long term, the distinction between selective and non-selective training, by simply applying the rule of the capacity of reception which allows the classification of the candidates.
It is a question of removing, for training, the possibility of refusing candidates a priori.
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Harmonize grades from one high school to another
Another difficulty pointed out by the CESP: the difference in grades from one high school to another and therefore the need to take into account the high school of origin to know the real level of the future student.
Because a 14 at the Jean Jaurès high school in Argenteuil does not have the same value as a 14 at the Henry IV high school in Paris.
Some high schools grade more severely than others, it is a reality that complicates post-baccalaureate admissions.
To remedy this, the CESP “recommends that high schools harmonize their continuous assessment marks on objective bases by using common tests taken from subject banks.
“And at that time, “we will have a very clear algorithm”, assures Max Dauchet, also a member of the independent committee, at a press conference, insisting on the importance of dialogue between high schools and higher education establishments in this regarding orientation.
Improve support and guidance for scholarship students
The CESP initially notes a “relative, but real effectiveness of the policy of quotas” for scholarship holders, to access the higher technician section courses (STS) and university institutes of technology (IUT).
Indeed, the share of new technological baccalaureate holders admitted to IUT has increased from 34% in 2019 to 42% in 2021.
Nevertheless, this policy of quotas for the access of technological baccalaureate holders in IUT, if it is useful, is not enough, decides the CESP.
It therefore recommends improving the information and guidance of students from the second year, in general and in technology, and emphasizing the opportunities opened up by the technological courses in IUT.
In addition, according to the CESP, it is also necessary to carry out a "real policy of rapprochement between the actors of higher education and high schools in order to create the conditions for the success of these graduates".
Improve the follow-up of students by their high school after the baccalaureate
Finally, the committee points out that some students will leave high school and the Parcoursup platform without their home establishment being able to simply follow their course and understand what they become.
A tool must therefore be put in place to facilitate this monitoring.
"If high schools could know the future of their students one year after leaving high school in an automated way, they could then focus on the future of those who have
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disappeared
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, those not admitted to Parcoursup", underlines the committee.
This tool must be created by the collaboration of the two ministries, that of National Education and that of Higher Education and Research.
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