Elisabeth Borne’s plan to improve the orientation of 5th to post-bac-Liberation

Training of the main teachers, dedicated half-days, years of post-baccalaureate caesura … The Minister of National Education announced this Wednesday, June 4 in the evening the measures it wished to set up to improve Student orientation In college, high school and after the bac.

« I wanted to take this subject head-on because it arouses a lot of stress among parents and students, and because it is one of the central elements of reproduction of inequalities », explains Elisabeth Borne in an interview with Figaro Online in the evening, two days after the publication First answers to Parcoursup For high school students and students in reorientation.

Among the planned measures, the Minister indicates that orientation training will be provided for the main teachers in secondary school. « We will start with the 30,000 main third teachers who will benefit from half a day of training next fall », she said.

Students, From the 5th to the final year, will have « Four half-days per year dedicated to orientation, with a program of competence to acquire ». For post-bac, Elisabeth Borne says he wants « Make the conditions of access to higher education more flexible ». The government wants in particular « Encourage the year of post-bac caesura, which is widespread with our neighbors, and which can be an opportunity to engage in a civic service, to carry out an associative commitment, to travel … ». An option chosen by « Barely 9,000 high school students in France », she notes.

For professional graduates, Elisabeth Borne says he wants « Experience the possibility » also « Make your BTS in 3 years, with there again a year of propédeutics to strengthen their skills upstream of the continuation of studies », a course that she wishes to develop in « At least one high school per academy » At the start of the 2026 school year. Still for professional high school students, preparatory classes for engineering schools in three years will be developed.

In a report published on Tuesday, the rights defender criticized « An orientation system in second -law, fragmented and unequal secondary education », and called to « A collective awareness to make orientation a real lever for emancipation ».

In early April, François Bayrou had reaffirmed to be « Very interrogative on Parcoursup » and estimated that « Early orientation » East « Most of the time a social orientation ».