Whether this year or next, the government will want to make savings on this effective course but which increases the public deficit.
Cold snap on learning. After four years of double-digit growth, the number of new contracts signed increased by only 2% between 2022 and 2023, Dares (Ministry of Labor) highlighted this Wednesday. In total, 849,000 young people entered this course between school and business last year, compared to 835,000 in 2022. Apparently honorable amounts, especially when we remember that the figure rarely exceeded 300,000 entries per year before 2018. Except that the President of the Republic cannot be satisfied with a decline in learning. In the midst of his re-election campaign, he promised to reach one million before the end of his second term.
Worse, 2023 is probably only the beginning of a deeper trend reversal. With its back against the wall in the face of the soaring public deficit – estimated at 6.1% in 2024 – the government has clearly targeted the policy of supporting apprenticeship as a…
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