Learning: how the state-imposed planing stroke affects formations

Charlotte Barriquand 10:25 a.m., August 18, 2022

There are more and more apprentices in France.

Nearly 700,000 contracts were signed last year and this record could be beaten in 2022. A system victim of its own success.

Because it is too expensive for the State, which wants to cut back the credits granted, with the objective of 800 million euros in savings from September. 

Questionable training

This is a real blow for the players in the sector, worried about the future of certain training courses.

This is the case in the apprentice training center in Mâcon, in Saône-et-Loire.

Two weeks before the start of the school year, Emmanuel, president of the training institute, had planned to open a bac +3 training course in computer science in September, with eight students in apprenticeship, for a provisional budget of 11,600 euros per student.

But with the decline in state funding, training is called into question.

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"This reduction in contracts was expected"

"In all likelihood, if the conditions of the State do not change, they will continue their studies in Lyon, Dijon or Paris. They will not be able to do it in Mâcon", he laments at the microphone. Europe 1. This 5% drop in the costs of certain apprenticeship contracts, desired by the government, is however not a surprise, according to Yves Hinnekint, president of the Walt association, which represents part of the professionals of the 'learning. 

"This reduction in contracts was expected, but its implementation is surprising since the rules for this application have been falling since last July. The problem is that financing 730,000 apprentices with the same budget as in 2018 is not not possible", he explains on Europe 1, when four years ago there were 400,000 apprentices. 

The State hopes to reach 800 million euros in savings with this planing.

The Walt association is asking for more time so that the learning players can organize themselves and find new financing solutions.

The government is defending itself this Thursday morning in the columns of

.

“The State has supported the sector a great deal to maintain the positive dynamic of learning during the crisis. We now need to build the support of tomorrow by guaranteeing the success of the sector and the relevant targeting of public aid,” said Carole. Grandjean, Minister Delegate in charge of Education.