Stephane Place
As part of the France 2030 plan, 50 billion euros must be invested to reboost French industry. A theme at the heart of the presidential campaign, because the challenge is also to have qualified employees. In a high school in Gironde, we can see that the sector has clearly evolved in recent years.
The reindustrialization of France. It is one of the almost generalized promises of the candidates for the presidential election. On Tuesday, a France 2030 launch committee was held, when 50 billion euros must be invested to reboost the industry. But the challenge is also to have qualified employees. Technological courses sometimes suffer from a lack of candidates, even though they are the guarantee of stable and long-term employment. Europe 1 went to a high school in Talence, in Gironde.
Salaries 15% higher than the average
The rector of the Académie de la Nouvelle-Aquitaine came on Tuesday to meet students from the Alfred Kastle high school who have chosen the technological path in order to encourage them. Louis, 19, is one of them. “I come from a general baccalaureate, an S baccalaureate. The theory did not interest me too much and I needed concrete, to manufacture and design. I did an internship with an artist who works precisely in boilermaking and I liked it,” he explains. “There, for example, we are making a staircase.”
For Loïc, a teacher at this Girondin establishment, the sector has clearly evolved. “Over the past five years, we have doubled our capacity to train BTS RCI. We have opened other training courses across the Academy and we rarely have students who do not work”, assures- he. So much so that some often receive job offers even before the end of their training, as explained by Alexandre Le Camus, general delegate of the Union of metal trades in Gironde and Landes.
“You cannot improvise yourself as a production operator in boilermaking, machining or maintenance. There are significant qualification paths upstream, which also corresponds to long-term employment with high salaries, namely 15% more than the average”, he explains. And in New Aquitaine alone, the industrial sector will recruit 35,000 people by 2025.