Higher Education Minister Sylvie Retailleau announced on Sunday that candidates still awaiting a response on the Parcoursup higher education access platform could choose from “100,000 training places still vacant“.
“Candidates can choose from 100,000 training places still vacant, in just over 5,800 different training courses“, assures the Minister of Higher Education in the columns of the JDD . She specifies that these places are locatedboth in the new Accès Santé licenses (62 LAS still have places), in law, economics-management or literature licenses, and in selective training such as preparatory classes, which are no longer full everywhere, in BTS or BUT“.
“Parcoursup is continuously improving»
According to the Parcoursup dashboard, 94,000 candidates have not yet received any proposals during the main phase. There were around 91,000 in 2021. But for Sylvie Retailleau, “Parcoursup has been continuously improving, year after year, for five years. Today, at the end of the main phase, just over nine out of ten high school students have received at least one admission offer. The process was smoother. And there was less waiting for candidates than last year“, she says.
According to her, “at the end of the main phase, 83.1% of all applicants, i.e. high school students, reorientation students and people resuming studies, received at least one proposal in 2022 , compared to 82.8% in 2021“. Asked about possible improvements to the platform, the Minister felt that it was necessary to “above all to improve the orientation of pupils. There has already been a lot of work done. There has never been so much information on training as on the Parcoursup platform. Now we need to make it all more accessible. We are working on it with my colleague Pap Ndiaye, the Minister of National Education“.
“The half-day future which will be set up from the 5th will in particular make it possible to make all the professions better known and to improve the orientation“, she added. Moreover, with regard to the creation of university places at the start of the new school year, “the government has already created 84,000 places in higher education in 5 years” and go “continue this effort“, assured Ms. Retailleau.