The initiative is unique. Since yesterday, 83 French universities have all embarked, at the request of the Ministry of higher education, in a large survey designed to measure their elders graduate employability. Distributed by mail or by post, the operation only applies to graduates of 2007, a university degree in technology, a professional licence, or a master. In total, 90 0000 students are concerned. (The operation is a direct consequence of the Act on the autonomy of universities LRU) August 2007, with the facs for a mission of employability, training and research. The Department has designed a single questionnaire for all institutions, designed to measure the rate of employment of graduates, i.e. the ratio of students having won a position with those still in research. "Since all housed in the same fashion, it will be easy to compare the performance of institutions", notes Pierre Bagot, responsible mission at the université Pierre-and-Marie-Curie (Paris VI), which will examine 2,000 graduate.
An impact on budgets

The facs have until April 30, 2010 to escalate their data to the Ministry, which has broadcast the results on its website by the summer. What inform students, high school students and their families in the performance of institutions, bringing them to advance. Observed performance will be, indeed, taken into account in the multiannual contracts between the State and the universities, and will therefore have a direct impact on the assigned budgetary envelopes.
The approach should not fail to react with the students and teachers, unions who see a step further in competition of universities. Other critics expressed: the simplistic side of the indicator, which puts on a plan all of the courses (General practitioners, scientists, economic...), and does not take into account the satisfaction of graduates from their training or their level of remuneration.
Accompany students
Number of establishments will therefore have to activate, including by accelerating the establishment of offices to professional insertion (BAIP), made compulsory by law LRU and intended, inter alia, to assist students in their job search. The University of Limoges went particularly far in the process, through its hub of students. In addition to meetings between companies and student, she offers weekly workshops in small groups - development of a CV, motivation maintenance, technical jobs... search-, and broadcasts a dedicated job search television channel. Finally, a "club of young graduates" allows students to be accompanied by individually for three months by professional consultants. A battery of nearby services from those already proposed by the schools and the Minister of higher education and research wants to show example going tomorrow on the spot.
Number of establishments will therefore have to activate, including by accelerating the establishment of offices to professional insertion (BAIP), made compulsory by law LRU and intended, inter alia, to assist students in their job search. The University of Limoges went particularly far in the process, through its hub of students. In addition to meetings between companies and student, she offers weekly workshops in small groups - development of a CV, motivation maintenance, technical jobs... search-, and broadcasts a dedicated job search television channel. Finally, a "club of young graduates" allows students to be accompanied by individually for three months by professional consultants. A battery of nearby services from those already proposed by the schools and the Minister of higher education and research wants to show example going tomorrow on the spot.