The use of the drawing of lots was approved to decide between students with similar profiles wishing to integrate the STAPS, law or medicine courses.
The future of hundreds of graduates of the 2017 class will be decided by lot. Circular published on the sly in the Official Bulletin by the Ministry of National Education confirms this practice to decide between students wishing to enter popular university courses.
In reality, the use of chance is nothing new. While more and more students are flocking to university doors, bachelor’s degrees do not get new places. The STAPS (Sciences and Techniques of Physical and Sporting Activities) or psychology courses have therefore been forced for several years to let chance decide. Result: at the start of the 2016 academic year, more than 3,500 students did not get their first choice.
The drawing of lots as a last resort
But until now, the draw was not framed by any rule. A situation to be remedied by the government a few weeks before the end of the five-year term and the baccalaureate exams. From now on, the STAPS, psychology, law or even the first common year of health studies (PACES) courses will be able to use it.
The circular provides for the use of this procedure only as a last resort to arbitrate between two high school students presenting the same geographical criteria and identical wishes expressed on the post-baccalaureate admission platform (APB).
The students are furious
For the student unions UNEF and FAGE, this text enacts selection at the university. “We are witnessing the choice of an easy solution, a refusal to offer real solutions,” protests the Federation of General Student Associations (FAGE) in a statement. At a time when access to higher education is no longer a certainty and when pressure is setting in at the entry of so-called “under tension” courses, this circular represents the outright abandonment of commitment of the ministry for the right to equal access to higher education ”.
For the students, this decision has all the more the bitter taste of a betrayal that the Minister of Education, Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, and the Secretary of State for Higher Education, Thierry Mandon, had assured that the drawing lots was not on the agenda for PACES. Thierry Mandon had even qualified this process as “more stupid of systems” and hoped to see it disappear in the universities.
A nameless scandal …! The lottery is coming to the university !! Place your bets.. #Who’s next @La_FAGE @Pharma_ANEPF https://t.co/AYU6wONaqc
– Hadrien PHILIPPE (@Hadrien_Pharma) April 27, 2017
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