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The FACE Annual Conference 2009 1st -3rd July 2009, Staffordshire University

Toward a New Agenda for Lifelong Learning: Access, Diversity, and Participation. The FACE Annual Conference 2009 1st -3rd July 2009, Staffordshire University. Participation of adults in Higher Education, the French way. Claire SALLIC European University of Brittany

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The FACE Annual Conference 2009 1st -3rd July 2009, Staffordshire University

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  1. Toward a New Agenda for Lifelong Learning: Access, Diversity, and Participation The FACE Annual Conference 2009 1st -3rd July 2009, Staffordshire University

  2. Participation of adults in Higher Education, the French way. Claire SALLIC European University of Brittany Director of Life Long Learning department ADEFOPE University of South Brittany Claire.Sallic@univ-ubs.fr Jean-Marie FILLOQUE European University of Brittany Vice-rector in charge of Life Long Learning University of Brest Jean-Marie.Filloque@univ-brest.fr President of the French UCE Network France

  3. Objective To show how French Public HLE institutions try to rise adult participation in ULLL…. From the idea of “social promotion” to “integration model”

  4. Plan HLE organization in France Life Long Learning and HLE in France : the French integrative model ! Four ways to access a diploma Three ways to become a University HLE student Conclusions !!! All figures are from 2007

  5. HLE organization in France Most of the French Higher Education system is public, with very low tuition fees (~ 1,3 Millions students pays between 170 and 350 €/year) and it depends on the Ministry of Education (78%)

  6. Most of the students are in Universities HLE organization in France

  7. D M B Health studies 154 000 The Higher Education Level System in France…after Bologna (2002) Years Doctorate 72 000 GE 108 000 Master 262 000 Licence 621 000 DUT 115 000 CP BTS 230 000 Baccalauréat Access diploma

  8. French education law, modified in 1984, and in 2007 :HLE in France has 6 missions • 1- Initial and continuing education ; • 2- Scientific and technological research and its valorization • 3- Guidance and careers; • 4- Diffusion of culture, scientific and technical information • 5 – Participation to the European HLE and research area • 6- International cooperation

  9. Life Long Learning and HLE : the French integrative model !

  10. The Ministry of Education point of view on Higher Education • Lifelong learning (including Continuing education) • is one of the 6 main “missions” of the universities… • (new law 10/08/2007)

  11. Intregrative model As stated in the Education Act : • Adults and students can follow the same courses and get the same diplomas, but tuition fees can be different… • All HLE diplomas can be obtained through different ways, • There are specific possibilities for adults to access HLE Institutions.

  12. Intregrative model Adults and students can follow the same courses and get the same diplomas. • Currently 5% of the students are registered as “adults” students • But 8.8% of the diplomas are delivered to adults ! • Most of them in Professional Bachelors or Masters ! • BUT adults can also follows short courses (non credited)… (more than 380 000/year)

  13. All HLE diplomas can be obtained through different ways: • Full time studies (initial education : 93,9%) • Worked based learning (1.5%) • Continuing Education CE (4,6%) • Recognition of Prior Learning (0,3%)

  14. There are specific possibilities for adults to access HLE Institutions : • At the Bachelor degree level: by a special access diploma called “DAEU” 4 000/year and only 4000 diplomas !) • At all level: by Recognition of Prior Learning to access (20 000/year)

  15. A first analysis tells us that…. • The participation of adults in HLE seems very low ! • Even though all of the cursus are opened ! • But the performance (% of diplomas) is better and higher for HLE than for full time students … • So what is happening?

  16. Some reasons… • A poor image of the French Universities for professional studies ? • A strong concurrence because of the French laws and regulations… • An important difficulty to be financed • And this, even if universities offer the best competencies (due to research proximity) and the best cost !

  17. One question is: Who pays for CE in France ? • Wages (40%) • Pedagogical costs (60%) • Companies • Public funds : State, Regions.. (mainly for unemployed persons or young) • Mutual organisationswhich collect money from companies (for employed persons) • Individuals

  18. Who pays for CE in France? (2006 turnover, including only pedagogical cost) * Including civil servant CE..

  19. French continuing education system and organisation is shared between several stakeholders… Mainly…

  20. The “employment” stakeholders…. • Existence of a national system for adult continuing education (from a labour point of view… ) • Based on agreements between social partners, conveyed in laws by Parliament • 2 major laws organise this system…

  21. The 1959 law on “Promotion sociale” which has established the “organisational” part of the system : • national and regional administration for CE • national and regional committees which define the objectives, control the activities and analyse the results Completed by 1993 law on “decentralization” which give the whole control (more or less ..) on CE to the regions (22 in France)

  22. The 1971 law on “Vocational Continuing Education” establishes : • That companies must spend a part of their wages (minimum 1.6%) on employees continuing education • A “training leave” : which means the opportunity for employees to leave their work during a maximum of one year for an individual training project • A new market : Vocational Continuing Education

  23. The “Regional” stakeholders…. • Since 1994, CE is also under the responsibility of regional administration… • Mainly for young and/or unemployed persons…

  24. This “original” law, has been modified by several other ones, based on National Interprofessionnal Agreements… • Modified by a 2004 law on “Continuing Vocational training” which creates an “individual right to CE” of 20 h/year • will be modified in July 2009 with the introduction of guidance obligation, “career securization” mutual funds, modernisation of tax collect,… • But CE is always “on the market”

  25. The Education stakeholders … • The National Public Education System • is one of the operators on the market” •  Competition with private companies and associations (~ more than 15 000 active operators !!) • Regulations included in “Education Act”

  26. Main figures…

  27. French HLE institutions are active.. * Figures 2007 ** PLF 2009 (from survey N° 6 DEPP and PLF 2009 ( www.education.gouv.fr/pid53/evaluation-et-statistiques.html )

  28. French HLE institutions are active… and have results… (from survey N° 6 DEPP and PLF 2009 ( www.education.gouv.fr/pid53/evaluation-et-statistiques.html )

  29. Conclusions… French “INA” 2009 introduces the concept of “differed education right”…. Bologna 2020 could be with : RPL, EQF, Partnerships, access…. (as stated in Leuven communiqué) Universities have the responsibility of ‘designing” tomorrow public education system… With respect to the EUA European Universities’ Charter on Lifelong Learning

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