Romain Bitot, edited by Laura Laplaud / Photo credit: GONZALO FUENTES / POOL / AFP
Emmanuel Macron is traveling to Charente-Maritime this Thursday to defend the reform of vocational education. The President of the Republic will detail the main axes of the reform of the vocational high school. In particular, he will announce the remuneration of high school interns by the State from the start of the next school year.
Transforming vocational high schools on the path to excellence is the objective of the reform of vocational education presented this Thursday by Emmanuel Macron. The Head of State will be at the end of the morning in an establishment in Saintes in Charente-Maritime to detail the main axes of the reform. The Head of State will announce that the internships of students in vocational high schools will be paid from the start of the next school year. Paid internships but at what level and under what conditions?
An allowance according to the level of the high school student
Internships will be paid up to 50 euros per week in second class, 75 euros in first class and 100 euros for high school students in the final year.
Romain, 18, with a forestry baccalaureate in Seine-Maritime, is on an internship with a forest ranger. He is currently unpaid, but he will soon receive a state bonus. Very good news for this bachelor who wishes to reduce his expenses. “It’s beneficial, it’s a pleasure. We tell ourselves that we have worked and that we are reimbursed,” he explains. A gratuity that will allow him to cover his travel expenses and his lunch.
“We are here to excite young people”
An enthusiasm shared by his internship supervisor, Nicolas, a forest ranger in the Somme department, but who is not without reservations about the amount of remuneration. “We mustn’t forget one thing, it’s that we’re here to excite young people. Students shouldn’t say to themselves ‘hey, I’m going to do this training because it brings in money’ and just for that.” This remuneration will apply to all trainee high school students in vocational streams from the start of the 2023 school year. In France, vocational high schools have 621,000 students, a third of high school students in France.