Access to higher education: first assessment of the law orientation and success of students

The 2018 Student Orientation and Success Act aims to improve the three fundamental stages of the journey of young people destined for higher education: accompaniment and guidance in high school, assignment in a training, success in the first years of study. Its first two years of implementation have made it possible to take a first step in the transformation of access to higher education. The creation of the Parcoursup platform in particular, which had to cope with many imperatives, was done smoothly, but its security and sustainability must be ensured, and its data could be valued at the same level as the stakes. In general, guidance policy needs to be upgraded and better structured. Effective and equitable access to higher education requires greater transparency. The improvement of student success remains conditional on better use of the means and mechanisms of remediation. The Court makes 15 recommendations in this regard.