Great start! The phase of formulating training wishes in higher education opens this Wednesday on Parcoursup. It concerns high school students and students who want to reorient themselves. Final year students 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, taking into account the places still available, will open on June 11. Before the start of registrations on July 4, after the publication of the baccalaureate results.
“Parcoursup is a question” believes François Bayrou
Since its implementation in 2018, Parcoursup has been the subject of numerous criticisms. The platform is accused by some students of accentuating selection and academic pressure. Questioned on this subject by LFI MP Marie Mesmeur, during his general policy declaration, François Bayrou affirmed on Tuesday that “Parcoursup is a question”. “The obligation of early guidance disrupts [les élèves] and puts them in danger,” he stressed, without announcing any reform.
“We need to open the doors, undoubtedly by inventing the period, the year of articulation between secondary education and higher education,” he said, using a vegetable metaphor. “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 . »
The platform, for its part, denies increasing the selection: “The objective remains to fill reception capacities”, as before the creation of Parcoursup. Previously, sorting in the event of an excess of applications compared to available places was done by order of arrival or drawing lots. It is now done from “the examination of files”, for “more meritocracy”, we read on the site.
The Parcoursup site ensures that it is limited to the “transmission of applications” and “taking into account legal priorities”, such as the “rate of scholarship holders decided by the rectors for each training”, but emphasizes that it is “the teachers of the establishments of superiors who organize vows examination commissions.”
Our file on Parcoursup
Some 24,000 training courses are offered on the platform. Last year, around 945,000 applications were submitted to Parcoursup, according to the Ministry of Higher Education and Research. The government also announced last week to strengthen the fight against fraud in private higher education, with the possibility of excluding from the platform “training involving misleading or fraudulent commercial practices”.
