This concerns more than 900,000 young people. After a first information phase, that of formulating the 2025 training wishes in higher education opens on Parcoursup this Wednesday, January 15 to final year students and students who want to reorient themselves. They now have until March 13 to make ten wishes maximum and finalize their file by April 2.
The main admission phase will begin on June 2 and the classification of pending wishes will take place between June 6 and 10. A complementary phase of formulating additional wishes with regard to the places still available will then open on June 11, before the start of registrations on July 4, after the publication of the baccalaureate results.
Questioned on the platform by LFI MP Marie Mesmeur, during his general policy declaration, François Bayrou affirmed Tuesday that “Parcoursup is a question”. “The obligation of early guidance disrupts [les élèves] and puts them in danger”he stressed. The mayor of Pau, a descendant of a farmer, used the agrarian metaphor to implicitly criticize the post-baccalaureate guidance platform: “Children are not like leeks, they do not all grow at the same speed and wanting to select early, without having matured the mind and expectations, I think it is an error, in any case a weakness .”
For the head of government, a solution could be “to invent the period, the year of articulation between secondary education and higher education”.
Teenagers under academic pressure
Parcoursup is accused by certain students of accentuating selection and academic pressure, a demand raised in particular by high school students during sporadic school blockages for several months. The platform, for its part, denies increasing the selection: “The objective remains to fill reception capacities”as before the creation of Parcoursup. While sorting in the event of an excess of applications compared to available places was previously done by order of arrival or by drawing lots, it is now done from “of the examination of files”pour “more meritocracy”, we read on the site.
The Parcoursup site ensures that it is limited to the “transmission of applications” et “taking into account legal priorities”, like the “rate of scholarship holders decided by the rectors for each course”, but emphasizes that these are “teachers in higher education establishments who organize vows examination committees”.
The government announced last week to strengthen the fight against fraud in private higher education, with the possibility of excluding from the platform “training in misleading or fraudulent commercial practices”. In November, former Minister of Higher Education Patrick Hetzel said he wanted “do the housework” in higher education, particularly targeting private establishments.
Some 24,000 training courses are offered on the platform launched in 2018. Last year, around 945,000 applications were submitted to Parcoursup, according to the Ministry of Higher Education and Research.
