Higher education and research, Jean-Luc Mélenchon
Access to higher education: Access without selection, end of Parcoursup
Direction of change: abolition of a scheme, compared with current law.
The lever. Rules for entering higher education after the baccalauréat: allocation platform (Parcoursup), selection, places available. Direction rule: ↑ stricter selection.
« Garantir à tous les bacheliers l’accès sans sélection à la formation de leur choix en démantelant le système Parcoursup et restaurer le droit à la poursuite d’études en Master »1Translation by the editorsGuarantee all baccalauréat holders access without selection to the course of their choice by dismantling the Parcoursup system, and restore the right to continue studies at Master's level
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No cost-schedule parameter for this position: see the costing for the reason.
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Announced by the candidate
not announced
The programme does not cost this measure.
Published costings
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No external costing of this position recorded to date.
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Lever with no coefficient in the cost schedule: the position is compared, not costed.
Current law, sources and limits of the cost schedule
Current law. Loi ORE of 2018: Parcoursup. Non-selective bachelor's programmes (licences) may answer « oui si » [“yes, if”]; master's programmes have been selective since 2017.
Horizon. Not applicable.
Limits. Abolishing or tightening selection costs nothing in itself. However, a promise of additional places has a cost, which depends on the cost per student (not sourced here); it is costed only if a candidate announces a number of places.
- Sénat, avis PLF 2026 Recherche et enseignement supérieur, 2025-11: « 18,8 milliards d'euros prévus sur les programmes 150 « Formations supérieures et recherche universitaire » et 231 « Vie étudiante » »
How to read these amounts. These are static costs and revenues, with no feedback effect, over a full year: nothing on growth, employment or the revenue that economic activity would gain or lose. A higher net cost does not on its own make a worse policy, nor net savings a better one: each programme rests on an economic model (demand-led stimulus, lower compulsory levies, consolidation of the public accounts…) that the cost schedule does not settle. GDP itself measures a volume of activity, not well-being or the usefulness of what is produced. Economic models and feedback effects.
- L’Avenir en commun, édition 2025 (La France insoumise), version 1 of 28 January 2025, p. 24. Open the document at this page.
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