Like every week since the promulgation of the pension reform, Emmanuel Macron will be on the ground on Thursday. During a trip to Charente-Maritime, he will present the reform of the vocational high school.
The Head of State will go to the Bernard Palissy technological and vocational high school in Saintes, the Elysée announced on Tuesday evening. He will be accompanied by the Ministers of National Education Pap Ndiaye, Labor Olivier Dussopt and Vocational Education Carole Grandjean.
The bad figures of vocational high schools
Determined to regain control and turn the page on the pension crisis with subjects close to the concerns of the French, he will announce the main axes of the reform of the vocational high school, after that of learning. With three priorities: “the fight against school dropout, the improvement of professional integration and the recognition of the work and the commitment of the teaching staff”, specified the Elysée.
While vocational high schools take in one out of three high school students, only one out of two vocational baccalaureate holders and a quarter of students with a CAP manage to find employment within a year of obtaining their diploma. And among those who continue in BTS, too many drop out in the first year, the presidency further underlined. An “ambitious transformation” of the vocational high school is therefore necessary to “make young people succeed and have the skills of today and those of the future”.
Welcomed wherever he is announced by pot concerts, Emmanuel Macron could again be tempted to make a surprise stop in contact with the French to show that he can exchange despite the strong hostility on pensions. On April 27, while demonstrators against retirement at 64 were waiting for him at the place where he was to give a speech on the abolition of slavery, he showed up 100 kilometers away at the Dole market. , in the Jura, where he chatted with traders, customers and passers-by.