Parcoursup

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Parcoursup is a web portal designed by the French Ministry of Education and the French Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation, which manages admissions to French universities and other higher education institutions and processes the applications of high school graduates. The portal was released in 2018, and 666,000 candidates registered. In 2022, the site received applications from 626,653 students. In 2020, 17,123 undergraduate programmes are offered by Parcoursup. Parcoursup used to replace a previous Web platform (APB Admission Post-Bac, launched in 2009), which replaced the old system of randomly drawing students with one that allows examination of each student's files. However, Parcoursup has been criticised for creating anxiety among students, and being opaque because each university uses its own criteria to decide which students will be admitted. It has also been blamed for the amount of work it generates within universities. Parcoursup allows each student to make...

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