opening of a platform to collect internship proposals in second year

All general and technological secondary school students, educated in public and private establishments, are affected by these new compulsory internships at the end of secondary school.

Who will be able to accommodate a second year high school student for a compulsory internship in June? A platform collecting proposals from companies, associations or communities is due to open on Wednesday March 6 at 2 p.m., announced the Ministry of National Education. All general and technological secondary school students, educated in public and private establishments, are affected by these new compulsory internships at the end of the second year.

“Each company, association, local authority, state administration, hospital, can offer one or more internships depending on their professions and their size, in the dedicated ‘1jeune1solution’ space which will be open to them” from 2 p.m. Wednesday, writes the ministry in a press release. “This platform will then allow students to search for the internship that suits them, from March 25”he adds.

Some 500,000 internships to be filled

In November, 200,000 offers were available out of the 500,000 internships to be filled, said the Minister of National Education at the time, Gabriel Attal, accompanied by the Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire, during the launch of the “My second year internship” operation in Seine-Saint-Denis. “There are 500 000 internships to be filled. So there must be 500 000 proposals. It’s not about having half of it.”Bruno Le Maire insisted to business leaders.

“We are especially worried about rural areas, where it is the parents who will have to provide logistics for their children, to sometimes take them relatively far away”underlined on franceinfo Laurent Zameczkowski, spokesperson for the Public Education Parents’ Federation. “This internship will have no real interest“, he believes, because it occurs after the choice of specialty. “We are wondering if this is not a bad idea.”