#MENE2609622ATeaching Hours for School-Based National Arts Crafts Diploma Programs
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This order sets the required teaching schedule for school-based programs leading to France’s national arts crafts diploma. It fixes the balance between professional subjects, general education, workplace training, and career or further-study preparation across the three-year program. Schools must organize 2,728 total teaching hours over three years, plus 16 weeks of mandatory workplace training. Third-year students must receive a personalized pathway to prepare either for employment or further studies, including two dedicated weeks that schools can schedule flexibly. Classes are capped at 15 students, and each student’s supervised workload may not exceed eight hours per day or 35 hours per week. The rules apply from the 2026 school year, including in Wallis and Futuna.
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Key Changes
- Sets a three-year reference schedule of 2,728 teaching hours for school-based national arts crafts diploma programs
- Requires 16 weeks of mandatory workplace training across the program
- Caps each class at 15 students and limits supervised student workload to eight hours per day and 35 hours per week
Obligations
What this law requires
School-based programs preparing students for the brevet national des métiers d'art must provide the mandatory professional and general education subjects and teaching hours set out in the annex, totaling 2,728 teaching hours over the three-year program.
Programs must include 16 weeks of mandatory workplace training periods required for the examination, allocated as 4 weeks in the first year, 6 weeks in the second year, and 6 weeks in the third year.
In the third year, schools must offer each student a personalized pathway allowing the student to prepare either for professional entry or for further study, including higher education.
The third-year personalized pathway must include two dedicated weeks for preparation for professional entry with workplace training or preparation for further studies; schools may determine the organization, distribution, and scheduling of these weeks.
Mandatory workplace training periods in the third year must take place before the one-off general education examinations.