ARES - GACF Gateways Reference Framework of 04-09-2019

The referential of the gateways of the Order of the Government of the French Community of 04/09/2019 includes the annexes of the said Order. A bridge allows the student who has passed a first cycle of short type (professionalizing bachelor) to access the second cycle studies of long type (master in high school or university) with possibly the follow-up of additional credits. The conditions attached to these appropriations are set out in the Order.

• Definition

Bachelor’s degree: Academic degree that is obtained after passing undergraduate studies of at least 180 credits. The "professionalizing" bachelor allows to directly exercise a profession after having obtained it, while the "transitional" bachelor prepares for the next cycle (the master).

Cycle: Studies leading to an academic degree. Higher education is organised in three cycles:

the first cycle, which leads to the degree of bachelor
the second cycle, which leads to the degree of master
the third cycle, which leads to the degree of doctor

Master: Academic grade of level 7 attesting to graduate studies of at least 60 credits and, if they pursue a particular purpose, of at least 120 credits.

Gateway: Academic process admitting a student or a student pursuing studies in another course.

Type: Characteristic of higher education linked to its professional purpose, pedagogical methods and the number of cycles of initial training. Short tertiary education comprises a single cycle, long tertiary education comprises two basic cycles.

• Granularity

The combination of the Bachelor's Studies Title and Master's Studies Title fields uniquely identifies each line of the dataset.

• Source

The data come from the Decree of the Government of the French Community.
The reference document can be found as an attachment or consulted here .

Log Changes

2021-10-05 : Updating table structure, metadata and dictionary
2022-12-12 : Updated Geographic Coverage Metadata (Correction: Error "zero or more than one hit")
2022-12-14 : Updating data and correcting shells in the data dictionary