Regulation of Initial Vocational Training in France: Institutional Competition and Hierarchy of Statistical Tools
The decentralization of vocational training in the French context resulted in the development of collaborative devices to aid in the decision-making process, in which statistic equipment play a central role. Conducted at two regions, a survey on training maps production, however, allows us to see that some national education goals (“absorb the flood of students”) continue to outweigh the professional issues of local production of skills. In steady state, territorial regulation focuses more on investment management rather than on definition of content and training objectives. In an environment of fiscal restraint, reform of the vocational baccalaureate illustrates, with more acuteness, the problems of substantial regionalization of training policies. Thus, the prioritization of instruments reflects the current institutional competition.