Parcoursup
France's university admissions platform, used since 2018 to collect and allocate students' choices. Some protesting students want it scrapped.
Parcoursup is a website set up in 2018 to register and manage the admission choices of prospective university students; in 2020 it handled nearly 936,000 students and more than 21,000 programs.
In the school-student movement of fall 2026, besides teacher shortages and run-down school buildings, some called for Parcoursup to be abolished.
Sources
- Parcoursup (Wikipedia (French), accessed 2026-10-22)
- Blocages des lycées, quelles sont les revendications ? (franceinfo, accessed 2026-10-22)
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