Overview

• Mobile phone use is being curbed in all collèges with the generalisation of the “portable en pause” policy, paired with a right to disconnect for school digital platforms during evenings and weekends, and compulsory AI initiation begins this year for 4e, seconde and first‑year CAP students with large‑scale teacher training.
• Baccalauréat rules will tighten from the 2026 session with the end of jury points for candidates below 8/20, a cap of 50 jury points for those under the average, a minimum 9.5/20 required to avoid failing without retakes, and an instruction to heads to clarify which assessments count for continuous assessment.
• A new anticipatory maths written paper arrives at the bac in 2026 for première students, lasting two hours, coefficient 2, and taken without a calculator.
• The brevet weighting changes for 2026 with the final exam counting 60% and continuous assessment 40%, now based on troisième marks rather than the broader cycle‑4 skills framework.
• School climate and child protection measures expand with a mental‑health protocol and a dedicated adviser in every school, about 6,200 searches since March yielding nearly 400 seized weapons and systematic disciplinary action plus prosecutor referrals, and reinforced oversight of private schools with 800 inspections completed toward 1,000 by end‑2025 and a 40% coverage target by 2027.