Education

#SSAH1934314AOrder of January 17, 2020 on Admission to Institutes Preparing for the State Diploma of Physiotherapist

🇫🇷France··Other·Medium Impact·View source ↗

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🇬🇧 English

This regulation defines who can be admitted to the first year of physiotherapy programs in France. It includes students who have completed the first year of university in certain relevant fields, and introduces a system that allows diversity in admissions through pre-defined agreements between institutions. Any institute that doesn't formalize these agreements cannot admit new students.

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Key Changes

  • Defines eligibility for admission into physiotherapy programs
  • Requires diversity in admission pathways through formal agreements
  • Limits institutes from admitting students without these agreements

Obligations

What this law requires

high

Physiotherapy training institutes must sign a written convention with one or more university presidents before admitting students, specifying selection modalities, criteria, and seat allocation by training pathway

Physiotherapy training institutes (instituts de formation en masso-kinésithérapie)
operational
high

Institutes must sign the required convention by May 15, 2020 to admit students for the September 2021 academic year; failure to do so results in prohibition from admitting new cohorts

Physiotherapy training institutes
licensing
high

Training institutes cannot admit more than 50% of authorized seats to students from specialized first-cycle university programs (Article 1-2°), except up to 70% for September 2021 admissions

Physiotherapy training institutes
operational
medium

Universities must indicate on the Parcoursup platform and their websites all training pathways allowing access to physiotherapy programs, within the national pre-registration procedure

Universities
disclosure
medium

Training institutes must publish on their websites the number of available seats for each training pathway offered by their partner university/universities, following the calendar defined in education code article D. 612-1-2

Physiotherapy training institutes
disclosure

Affected Parties

UniversitiesPhysiotherapy institutes

Tags

education,physiotherapy,admissions