From this Monday, June 17, second year students will complete a compulsory internship in a company for two weeks. However, almost 30% of students have not found an internship supervisor and find themselves without a solution. What are they required to do in these circumstances?
It is the rule from this year, all general and technological secondary school students, educated in public and private establishments, must complete a compulsory two-week internship. On the first day of this internship period, many students are nevertheless left behind, having not found a company or structure to welcome them.
Problem, because the Ministry of Education specifies that “this sequence is included in the school year calendar and is compulsory in their education”. So what should these young people do during the two weeks of the internship?
Go to high school
In its frequently asked questions dedicated to this subject, the ministry indicates that if ever a student is in a reception place to carry out his observation internship, he will be “welcomed in his establishment. He benefits from online solutions for discovering professional environments and carries out documentary research to clarify or perfect his orientation project”.
To summarize, the students will still have to go to the high school, to settle in CDI type rooms, equipped with computers, where they will be able to look at their orientation, in particular thanks to video capsules from Onisep, recalls The echoes. The newspaper specified, however, at the beginning of June that school heads had already indicated that it would be impossible to accommodate these students, particularly in high schools which take the baccalaureate.
Do we risk a sanction?
Is it possible to stay at home during this period? This is quite delicate since it is clearly indicated on the National Education website that the student remains “under the responsibility of the head of the establishment”. But for Sophie Vénétitay, from the Sness-FSU teaching union, interviewed by Le Figaro Étudiant, “we won’t be able to push the walls. In reality, what is emerging is that the students will be able to come for a few days during the period, but that they will stay at home the rest of the time.
The student who does not have an internship, however, does not risk any sanction, since these two weeks of internship are not graded and do not give rise to a written or oral report.
