The creation of the vocational baccalaureat track in 1985 contributed to a major innovation in the French initial secondary education system. In its objective and in its innovative way of learning combining sandwich courses (workplace and school-based learning), this programme offers students who were failing at school a path for continuing their studies or a springboard into a new career or professional plan. This diploma has been implemented in different ways: through student status or in apprenticeships, and through the responsibility of the Ministry of Education in vocational high schools,
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The creation of the vocational baccalaureat track in 1985 contributed to a major innovation in the French initial secondary education system. In its objective and in its innovative way of learning combining sandwich courses (workplace and school-based learning), this programme offers students who were failing at school a path for continuing their studies or a springboard into a new career or professional plan. This diploma has been implemented in different ways: through student status or in apprenticeships, and through the responsibility of the Ministry of Education in vocational high schools, but also through those under the responsibility of the Ministry of Agriculture, as for the Maisons familiales rurales (MFR). First, this paper will present the institutional framework: what is the vocational baccalaureat (VETBac) diploma, what are its roles and purposes? As the national French system of education from the Ministry of Education has been the subject of a number of articles in European [vocational education and training] VET reviews (Gendron, 2005), the Maison familiale rurale (MFR) system, which is less known, and its philosophy will be presented more in detail here. The second part will give some insights into the convergence and divergence of the conditions of competence development of vocational baccalaureat trainees or students with a workplace learning focus in those two organizations.
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The volume from which this chapter is taken is indexed at TD/TNC 101.305. Individual chapters are indexed from TD/TNC 101.306 to TD/TNC 101.319.
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