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#2015-652Regulatory Provisions of Educational Codes in France

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

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The law, decreed in June 2015, outlines regulatory provisions relating to educational codes in France, specifically addressing personnel management, student health services, and scholarship allocations for students residing in overseas territories such as Wallis and Futuna, Polynesia, and New Caledonia. It establishes guidelines for the delegation of administrative responsibilities, particularly for the vice-rectors in these territories, ensuring they can manage educational and student welfare effectively. Furthermore, it details the conditions under which scholarships can be awarded to students from these regions pursuing higher education in mainland France.

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Key Changes

  • Establishment of specific scholarship provisions for students from Wallis and Futuna, Polynesia, and New Caledonia.
  • Delegation of administrative responsibilities to vice-rectors for better management of educational affairs.
  • Clarification of health service provisions for students in specialized training.

Obligations

What this law requires

high

Medical surveillance for students enrolled in specially arranged sports training programs must include at least one medical-sports examination per trimester, organized under the responsibility of the regional medical inspector of the sports ministry, in association with the relevant federation doctor and university preventive medicine service.

University preventive medicine services, Regional medical inspectors, Sports federations
operational
high

University sports association bylaws must require affiliation with the National Federation of University Sports (FNSU) and establish a management committee with paritaire composition including establishment heads, teachers, staff, and students holding FNSU licenses and current memberships.

University sports associations
operational
high

In Wallis and Futuna, Polynesia, and New Caledonia, replace all references to 'rector' (recteur d'académie) with 'vice-rector' (vice-recteur) in the application of articles R. 811-10 to R. 811-15, R. 821-2, D. 811-1 to D. 811-9, D. 821-1, and D. 821-3.

Vice-rectors in overseas territories (Wallis and Futuna, Polynesia, New Caledonia, Mayotte)
operational
high

The overseas ministry and budget ministry must jointly set by decree the scholarship rates for students from Wallis and Futuna pursuing higher education in mainland France, based on training type and accounting for living expenses, clothing, supplies, and holiday costs.

Minister responsible for overseas territories, Minister responsible for budget
operational
medium

Scholarships for Wallis and Futuna students may not be renewed except with justified written report from the establishment head in cases of two successive exam/competition failures in the same academic or university year.

Educational establishment heads, State representative in overseas territories
prohibition

Affected Parties

Students from overseas territoriesEducational institutions in mainland France

Tags

education,scholarships,overseas territories