Overview

• Beginning autumn 2025, 30,000 third-grade main teachers will undergo a half-day training session on student guidance
• Pupils from 5e to terminale will benefit from four dedicated orientation half-days per year backed by a structured competency program
• The government will promote post-bac gap years for civic service, associative work or travel after only around 9,000 students currently take time off
• Universities will expand multidisciplinary propaedeutic years from 22 institutions today to 45 by 2027 to assist hesitant baccalaureate holders
• A Défenseur des droits report has branded France’s existing guidance system unclear, fragmented and unequal, noting its role in perpetuating social inequalities