The scientific committee responsible for evaluating the skills investment plan (PIC) implemented since 2018 presented its first results on Thursday, November 25. If the 15 billion euros of the CIP have not yet made their effects felt, several regional experiments aimed at making training courses more flexible, to better meet the needs of sectors under stress, are being closely monitored. This is the case with the modularization of construction training. The Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region, the first to commit to the PIC, in return for an endowment of 250 million euros, served as a testing ground.
As in other territories, construction is among the top 5 sectors that recruit the most. Responsible for training future building professionals, the region’s five apprenticeship training centers (CFA) welcome more than 2,000 learners per year. Not enough to meet business needs : in the region, 75% of recruitment projects are deemed “difficult” by employers in the sector.
But the lack of flexibility of the courses offered by the CFA, which are mainly aimed at young people in work-study programs, prevented them from welcoming professionals wishing to acquire new skills or to retrain. “Before the modularization of construction training, the learner had to follow a training course in its entirety; including the 3 hours of English on Wednesday morning, the 2 hours of maths on Thursday afternoon… In these conditions, it was difficult to open the training to a wider audience ”, explains Christelle Soulard, head of the certification department of the Building and Public Works Apprenticeship Consultation and Coordination Committee (CCCA-BTP).
“Digital capsules”
In order to adapt its offer to the constraints of interns, the Bâtiment CFA Bourgogne-Franche-Comté association began in 2017 in a vast project to create “digital capsules”. These are 350 very short training sessions, lasting around fifteen minutes, during which the learner can, for example, learn about the issues of sustainable development.
The brevity of the format makes it possible to train between two projects by watching a short video. From this first experiment in redefining courses by skill blocks, Bourgogne-France-Comté served as a pilot region for the modularization of construction training.
Since the law for the freedom to choose one’s professional future of 2018, training organizations have been called upon to structure their offer in “blocks”, in order to streamline the courses and facilitate the recognition of prior learning. In the construction industry, the CFA Bourgogne-France-Comté Building association has thus paved the way. “We worked with them on the methodology and staff training”, explains Christelle Soulard.
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