Bayrou wants to create a “year of articulation” between high school and university

In his general policy speech, François Bayrou mentioned the “essential subject” of “national education, higher education and research.”

In his general policy speech, delivered this Tuesday, January 14 to the deputies of the National Assembly, François Bayrou mentioned “national education, higher education and research”, another “essential subject” and “the one of the prides of [s]for life”, saluting in passing the woman he appointed minister, Élisabeth Borne.

“How can we accept that the French school, which was the first in the world, sees itself ranked at the rank it is today in mathematics as well as in reading?” asked the Prime Minister from Le Perchoir.

“Teachers at our university depict first-year students who, after 13, 14 or 15 years of school, are unable to write a simple, understandable text with acceptable spelling. This, for me, is the greatest of our failures and it is a failure of which the weakest are victims,” argues François Bayrou.

For him, these victims are “those who come from environments which do not have the codes, who do not know anyone, who have access neither to influence nor to power” and thus “see themselves excluded without recourse from the moment “At the moment we do not give them the weapons to face the crossing of these superior formations.”

A “year of articulation”

Also, to fight against what he describes as “weakness” in the French education system, François Bayrou wishes to “open the doors” to what he calls a “year of articulation between secondary and higher education.”

For him, “children are not like leeks, they do not grow at the same speed.”

“What we formerly called propaedeutics – that is to say the preparation for teaching of which we have not yet mastered the bases and capacities – should be a concern for the organization of our educational system”, affirms the head of government, who thus wishes to “fight the assignment of birth, neighborhood, religion, the sound of the name, the accent…”.