10-521: Parcoursup is a web portal designed by the French Ministry of Education and the French Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation , which manages the balance between undergraduate places in French universities and other higher education institutions, and the application of candidates with a high school diploma. The portal was released in 2018, and 666,000 candidates registered. In 2022,
20-488: Is France's largest employment domain, the ministry directs the work of more than half of the state civil servants . The position is therefore traditionally a strategic one. On 11 January 2024, with the installation of the Attal government , the ministry changed its name to Ministère de l'Éducation nationale, de la Jeunesse, des Sports et des Jeux Olympiques et Paralympiques (Ministry of National Education, Youth, Sports and
30-565: The Comité d'études sur les formations d'ingénieurs which studies the training and job placement of engineers in France. Minister of Sports (France) The Minister of Sports ( French : Ministre des Sports ) is a cabinet member in the Government of France . The position has changed names a number of times since its creation, having occasionally been discontinued or regrouped with
40-473: The Minister of Public Instruction was a Protestant . The position has also occasionally been combined with Minister of Sports and Minister of Youth Affairs . In 1932, the office's title was changed to Minister of National Education , although it was briefly changed back in 1940–1941, and was renamed Minister of Education during the presidency of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (1974–1981). In 1975, it created
50-684: The Olympic and Paralympic Games). During the second cabinet reshuffle of February 2024, and owing to a controversy involving Amélie Oudéa-Castéra , the ministry was divided into two: Oudéa-Castéra kept the Ministry of Sports and Olympic and Paralympic Games title, while the Ministry of Education was assigned to Nicole Belloubet . After the 2024 French legislative election , Anne Genetet was appointed Minister of National Education on 21 September 2024. A governmental position overseeing public education
60-454: The amount of work it generates within universities. Indeed, Parcoursup allows students to make from 1 to 10 wishes with as many as 20 subwishes for each of them. Hence, undergraduate programs receive far more applications than they used to and some universities can have to consider more than 100,000 student files. This has led to tensions within French universities and contributed to a controversy between left- and right-wing parties. In April 2024,
70-496: The high administrative court examines two texts, a decree and an order, which modify the terms of application on the platform and a certain number of quotas for non-European students. Measures deemed discriminatory and xenophobic by student organizations. This France -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Ministry of National Education (France) The Ministry of National Education and Youth , or simply Ministry of National Education , as
80-580: The site received applications from 626,653 students. In 2020, 17,123 undergraduate programmes are offered by Parcoursup. Parcoursup used to replace a previous Web platform (APB Admission Post-Bac, launched in 2009), which substituted itself to the old system of random drawing between students to implement an examination of each student file. However, Parcoursup has suffered criticism. It is being blamed for creating anxiety among students, and being opaque because each university uses its own criteria to decide which students will be admitted. It has also been blamed for
90-530: The title has changed several times in the course of the Fifth Republic , is the cabinet member in the Government of France who oversees the country's public educational system and supervises agreements and authorisations for private teaching organisations. The ministry's headquarters is located in the 18th century Hôtel de Rochechouart on the Rue de Grenelle in the 7th arrondissement of Paris . As education
100-574: Was first created in France in 1802. Following the various regime changes in France in the first decades of the 19th century, the position changed official status and name a number of times before the position of Minister of Public Instruction was created in 1828. For much of its history, the position was combined with that of Minister of Public Worship , who dealt with issues related to the Roman Catholic Church , except in instances where
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