Jean-Luc Mélenchon
Education
44 documented positions: from their programme first, then their campaign, their party and earlier texts.
2027 programme or campaign document : 3 · Campaign proposal or statement : 41
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Create ten thousand teaching posts the following year and target around nineteen pupils per class over the term.
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Make school meals free.
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Abolish Parcoursup and MonMaster and open 250,000 higher-education places.
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Cost 10,000 additional school posts in 2027 at €500 million, prioritising public secondary education and aiming to approach 19 pupils per class over the term; allocate €3.6 billion to free school meals.
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Cost 250,000 additional university places at €3.5 billion.
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Expand rural school coverage to limit school travel to fifteen minutes, retain single-class schools and repeal agreements causing closures or distant mergers.
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Make school transport free and accessible to everyone.
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Diversify rural high-school subjects and options across classes without segregation and twin urban and rural schools.
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Build well-equipped vocational schools and local polytechnic centres; restore public regulation of new apprenticeship training centres.
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Restore a national public guidance service and mobile career fairs connecting rural young people with training and local businesses.
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Provide free boarding places for vocational pupils and school-status apprentices, prioritising those living far away.
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Abolish Parcoursup and MonMaster, create 250,000 public places and a national application platform based on catchment areas without selection, addressing inequalities in the Paris region.
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Make bachelor's-to-doctoral study free, abolish the campus-life contribution and reverse higher fees for non-EU students.
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Fund quality €1 CROUS meals for all students and require a university restaurant near every campus; fund student-services agencies according to need, including overseas.
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Restore a national public educational guidance service.
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Add 8,000 doctoral contracts annually, extend them to four years and increase contracts including teaching duties.
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Reduce tutorial-group sizes, favour cooperative teaching and end mandatory generalisation of competency-based approaches.
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Train academic staff in teaching during doctoral study and through continuing training counted in workload, with freedom for teaching teams to experiment.
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Make documents and buildings accessible, expand sign-language teaching and improve harmonised adjustments; fast-track accommodations for new parents and carers without loss of rights or status.
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Develop nationally harmonised collective doctoral supervision, require supervisors' training on psychosocial risks, violence and ethics, and strengthen doctoral-student protection.
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Recruit at least 40,000 permanent-status staff over five years following assessment of needs across all occupations.
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Give permanent status to willing contract staff in permanent functions, including mission contracts and junior chairs; cap nonpermanent staff at 5%, excluding doctoral students and trainees.
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Plan recruitment competitions and promotions for administrative/technical staff after assessing duties and grades, respecting expertise and initiative.
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Progressively reduce academics' annual teaching requirement to 160 tutorial-equivalent hours and teaching-only staff's requirement from 384 to 320 hours.
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Cap extra teaching hours, casual teaching and fixed-term technical contracts, progressively increase casual teachers' hourly pay and implement one year's research leave every seven years.
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Build and renovate laboratories, teaching and social spaces for accessibility and ecology; make suppliers/partnerships transparent and apply ethical, social and environmental procurement criteria.
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Limit university presidents to one term, selected by and from elected governing/academic council members with recall possible; prioritise elections for leadership positions.
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Rebalance governing-body representation, increase elected student members and abolish the majority seat bonus; improve student and staff representation in CROUS bodies.
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Repeal the LRU/Fioraso laws and restore a national qualifications framework, with secular public institutions alone authorised to award qualifications recognised for public-service competitions and collective agreements.
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Condition private-sector subsidies on teaching quality, financial transparency and social diversity, strengthen controls, ban for-profit private higher education and allow public-interest institutions to join public provision.
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Return experimental/special-status institutions to ordinary university status, submit mergers to referendums following audit if completed, and require component-level democratic approval for structural changes.
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Withdraw institutions from international rankings and end funding for marketing and labels.
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Develop local multidisciplinary universities, especially in medium-sized towns and overseas, strengthening branch campuses and transport.
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Protect short higher-education courses and progression after vocational/technological baccalaureates, transforming BUT degrees into LUT bachelor's degrees.
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Eventually integrate all courses into the university system with upward funding alignment, including preparatory classes, health/social courses and public grandes écoles, preserving professional specificities.
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Open debate on national university recruitment through the CNU, using file-based shortlisting and national interviews reflecting universities' profile needs; this is an announced consultation.
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Revise CNU disciplinary sections, including an Economy and Society section and consultation on Social Work/Social Intervention.
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Guarantee genuinely free training across ages and circumstances, including supplies and equipment.
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End mandatory competition among training providers, prioritise public bodies and restore public regulation of new apprenticeship centres.
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Create a National Professional Qualifications Council involving stakeholders and civil society to revise qualifications/certifications, plan training and replace Qualiopi.
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Create a national polytechnic-centre network spanning vocational certificates to professional degrees and continuing training; assign recognition of prior experience to these centres and public qualification-awarding institutions.
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Systematically offer further-study pathways in these centres and improve buildings, equipment and technical facilities.
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Create cross-pathways from vocational certificates through advanced technician diplomas to professional/engineering degrees, and strengthen general and disciplinary teaching in all vocational courses.
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Involve general, technological and vocational high schools in research programmes, including outside university towns.
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Source Civique, « Jean-Luc Mélenchon — Education », https://sourcecivique.fr/en/candidates/jean-luc-melenchon/education/, accessed [date] (version of 1 November 2026).
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