Education, training and higher education

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Transmit, emancipate, prepare the future

Levrig 2027
Trajectory 2027-2032

NB: «For the sake of fluidity and concision, In this text, the masculine is used to encompass all genders.».

The essentials

For Yes Breizh, education cannot be reduced to the administration of buildings or the immediate adjustment of teaching or support staff. It must enable each person to acquire fundamental knowledge, understand Brittany and the world, choose their own path, pursue a profession, and develop throughout their lives.

Reference derived from sources	Documented situation	Issue
Breton Service of Orientation	IDÉO1 23 partners; 17 platforms to monitor dropouts	Making orientation truly accessible and independent
Skill planning	10 operational sectoral agreements starting in 2026	Balancing economic prospects with individual aspirations
Financing of training for 2026	PRIC uncertain2 : 40.9 M€; compensation Ségur3 deleted: 14 M€	Securing a multi-year programming
Apprenticeship	France Compétences envelope announced to be halved, to €5.84 million	Preserving quality, networking and rare training opportunities
Student Life – CPER 2021-2027	More than €143 million announced for housing, catering and services	Making material success an educational policy
Higher education – CPER	195 M€, including nearly 51 M€ for energy renovation	Connecting campus, research and transition

These data mainly concern the administrative region of four Départements. The reference Brittany-5, which includes the Loire-Atlantique, will have to be established in 2027 before final quantitative targets can be set.

1. A Breton educational ambition

Four inseparable goals for Yes Breizh

• Mastering basic skills: reading, writing, reasoning, calculating, expressing oneself and understanding information.
• Educating free Breton women and men: the history of Brittany, Europe and the World, the geography of Brittany, Europe and the World, scientific culture, the media, democracy, civic education.
• Allowing the integration and professional transitions without subordinating all education to the immediate needs of the market.
• Guaranteeing real equality: social origin, locality, gender, disability, language and family situation should not determine the path to follow.

Languages: aiming for multilingualism

The strategy proposed by Yes Breizh articulates a solid mastery of French, a (very) operational level in English, and a growing offer aimed at perfect mastery of Breton or Gallo. The goal is not to oppose the languages, but to broaden the young people’s capabilities. Bilingual programs, Diwan, the Gallo-language pathways, and teacher training must be integrated into educational planning, with continuity from kindergarten to higher education.

Yes Breizh believes that what is possible in Switzerland, Belgium or, among others, in the Baltic countries is also possible in Brittany.

2. Clarifying responsibilities

Level	Responsibility proposes	Warranty
Central State and Europe	Common foundation of rights, national or European diplomas, academic freedoms and standards	Equality of rights and portability of qualifications
Brittany	Map of training, guidance, languages and culture in Brittany, high schools, apprenticeships, continuing education; pedagogical responsibilities assigned in stages	Responsible assembly, certified funding and independent evaluation
Departments, institutions, companies.	Implementation, educational projects, partnerships, innovation and support	Autonomy in an objective contract; participation of staff, students and parents

From 2027 onwards, the administrative region can better coordinate the competencies it already possesses. The mastery of programs, teaching staff, colleges, and higher education, however, requires a law, a devolution agreement (whether or not it is an experiment). No transfer should take place without personnel, data, assets, and dynamic funding.

An independent evaluation authority⁴

Yes Breizh considers that this authority should publish the results by Department (or country) and social category without mechanically classifying the establishments. It will evaluate⁵ progress, inequalities, well-being, inclusion, languages and the effectiveness of policies, apart from the services responsible for implementing them.

3. From the orientation received to the chosen path according to Yes Breizh

• To make IDÉO a single public service channel for Brittany as a whole, present physically in every living area and accessible online.
• Assigning a career mentor to each young person at the moments of transition: end of lower secondary school, upper secondary school, apprenticeship, university, and first job.
• Guaranteeing immersions in companies, associations, public services, laboratories and manual trades, without disguised advertising.
• Publishing information for each training: prerequisites, success, continuing education, integration, working conditions and geographical mobility.
• Strengthen the platforms for monitoring and supporting those who drop out of school and measure the lasting return to training or employment.

4. Professional career, apprenticeship and continuing training

A tripartite governance

For Yes Breizh, it is Brittany (B5), the companies and institutions with their social partners who must jointly define the needs, capacities and equipment. The current sectoral pacts constitute a useful basis, to be complemented by representation from learners, the Départements (or countries), and small businesses. It should also be noted that training is an investment, that needs must be anticipated, and that the employee must participate in their training journey.

Priority	Measure	Criteria for success
Rare or emerging formations	Multiannual funding and pooling of platforms	Maintaining an accessible offer in the five departments
Apprenticeship	Quality contracts, prevention of breakages, mobility and accommodation	Obtained diploma and sustainable employment, not just signed contracts
SMEs	Diagnostic skills and mutual training plan	Employees who have actually been trained, especially the less skilled ones
Transitions	Accelerated offer for digital, energy, health, sea, industry and agriculture	Certified and transferable skills
Reconversion	Right to support, validation of achievements and modularity	Reduction of dropouts and sustainable return to activity

5. Yes Breizh for a 2032 High School Plan: Schools, Departments and Climate

• Adopt a clear multi-year card that reconciles demographics, accessibility, boarding schools, training pathways and local networking projects (country).
• Prefer networks and mutualization to the dry closure of small establishments; publish access times before any decision is made.
• Make all high schools accessible to all disabilities, safe, energy-efficient, and adapted to weather conditions.
• Generalizing healthy, local and socially accessible restoration, with publication of the Egalim results⁶ and waste.
• Extend the participatory budget for high school students and involve educational communities in investments.
• Guaranteeing sovereignty and digital sobriety: repairable equipment, controlled software, data protection, and open and critical training in AI.

6. Higher education, research and student life

A strategy: a Breton network rather than a metropolitan concentration

The strategy proposed by Yes Breizh aims to strengthen Rennes and Nantes while ensuring training and research activities in Brest, Lorient, Vannes, Saint-Brieuc, Quimper, Lannion, Saint-Nazaire and in the nearby university towns. Collaborations between universities should not result in students being kept at a distance.

• Programming housing, food services, mental health, mobility and digital access as conditions for success.
• Create a Brittany-5 Observatory on student life and experiment with a student food security social security scheme after evaluation.
• Accelerate the energy renovation of campuses and publish the real savings.
• Fund fundamental research and partnerships with companies with transparency, scientific independence, and the dissemination of results.
• Develop Celtic and European exchanges, double degrees and the mobility of students, apprentices, researchers and teachers.

Actions: decisions that enable the strategy to be deployed and contribute to trust (and performance)

Actions	Objectives	Precautions
Almost free of university fees	Defending accessible, equitable higher education and reducing peripheral costs	French law must adapt to our needs by devolution.
Mass expansion of childcare services	Coordinating early childhood, after-school care, and parental employment	Shared responsibility; priority given to modest families and underserved local areas in the Départements
Almost free school meals	Solidarity pricing, fighting non-use and targeted experimentation	Measuring cost, quality and distributional effects
Develop apprenticeships and degree apprenticeships that allows you to obtain a bachelor's or master's degree while working.	Setting Breton goals after diagnosis, including higher-level apprenticeships	Driving success and employment, not just volume
Job guarantee for newly qualified teachers	Experimenting with a guarantee in disciplines and departments (or countries) in tension	Depends on a power over recruitment
Increased power of the head of the establishment	Contractual autonomy and local projects	Reasonable checks and balances exercised by staff, students and parents

7. Sixteen commitments

1. Establishing the educational assessment of Brittany-5.
2. Create a Breton Conference on education and skills.
3. Strengthening fundamental knowledge and scientific culture.
4. Guarantee a French-English curriculum and develop Breton and Gallo.
5. Make IDÉO the single public gateway for Brittany-5 in the field of orientation.
6. Assign a reference to the critical transitions.
7. Prevent and treat drop-out in each living area.
8. Recovering the ability to steer apprenticeships.
9. Secure the rare training sessions and technical workshops.
10. Create an effective right to assisted re-skilling.
11. Implementing Lycées 2032 with territorial and climatic criteria.
12. Making institutions universally accessible.
13. Adopting a Breton plan for student life.
14. Structuring an academic network Brittany-5 open to Europe.
15. Create an independent evaluation authority.
16. Condition each transfer to financing and guarantees.

8. Calendar 2027-2032

Year	Decisions and deliverables	Public platform
2027 — To know	Bilan Bretagne-5; map of training, personnel, buildings and mobility; social and linguistic indicators	Common reference framework, data from the Loire-Atlantique region and published local differences
2028 — Guarantee	Course coordinators; IDÉO (local initiative for development) ; student life plan; accessibility; rare training resources	Cover of all life basins and signed target contracts
2029 — Transform	Lycées 2032; professional card; quality apprenticeship; university network and languages	Independent evaluation of the initial results and correction of discrepancies
2030 — Devolution	Educational trials, possible transfer of homogeneous block sets subject to agreement; teams and funding guaranteed.	No transfer without initial assessment nor maintenance of services.
2031 — Mainstream	Extension of evidence-based schemes; staff training; European and Celtic co-operations	Report on achievement, inequalities, integration and languages
2032 — Evaluate	Review of term of office; consultation with educational communities; 2033-2038 trajectory	External evaluation and public debate Brittany-5

This timetable is the result of a method. Measures falling under current competences could begin as early as 2027; the others are contingent upon the willingness of Breton leaders and the devolution of the corresponding powers and resources.

9. Monitoring dashboard

Conditions of implementation

No transformation is generalized without a budget, a roadmap, revenue and evaluation. No objective is imposed without a budget, a timeline, support, and accessible technical solution. No transfer takes place without resources. In the event of failure, the system is corrected rather than maintained to meet a deadline. A code green, orange, red It will indicate the trajectory, but will never replace the figures and their explanation. A temporary increase in an indicator may correspond to a transition or to a better census: each evolution will be interpreted before a decision is made.

Indicator	Source and target	Frequency	Pilot
Mastery of the fundamentals	2027 benchmark by age and background; annual reduction in disparities	Annually	Evaluation authority
Dropping out	Young people identified, supported and sustainably re-engaged in pathways	Semiannual	IDÉO
Access to an IDÉO adviser	Median delay and coverage of each local life basin	Quarterly	Brittany
Chosen orientation	Share obtaining one of the expressed choices and 6-month satisfaction	Annually	Observatory
Professional training courses	Capacity, enrolment, completion rate and employment at 6/12 months	Annually	Brittany
Apprenticeship termination	Rate and solution within 3 months	Quarterly	CFA / Brittany
Job quality	Sustainable employment, level and adequacy after training	Annually	GREF7
Adult learners	Share of the active population by qualification, age, sex and local area.	Annually	GREF
Languages of Brittany	Students, continuity of learning pathways, trained teachers and certification	Autumn term 2027	Office / Brittany
Plurilingualism	Certified levels in English, Breton and Gallo	Annually	Evaluation authority
Accessibility	Percentage of sites and services accessible to all disabilities	Annually	Local authorities
Access time	Median travel time to high school, apprenticeship training centre and higher education	Annually	Breton Observatory
Student poverty	Housing, food, forgoing healthcare and involuntary employment	Annually	Student Observatory
Student accommodation	Seats, cost, time frame and coverage of needs	Annually	CROUS / Departments
Educational buildings	Energy, emissions, summer comfort and air quality	Annually	Landlords
Research–business links	Partnerships, doctoral students, patents and accessible results	Annually	Universities / Brittany
Diversity of fields of study	Gender and social differences by education	Annually	Evaluation authority
User satisfaction	Students, students, families, apprentices and staff	Annually	Independent body

10. Risks and precautions

Risk	Response
Copy-and-Paste French bureaucracy to Brittany	Clear blocks of competences, autonomy of institutions and elimination of duplications
Adapting the school to the immediate market alone	A humanistic foundation, ten-year foresight, and balanced representation in governance
Creating less portable degrees	National and European standards, automatic recognition and external evaluation
Increasing inequalities	Access thresholds, boarding schools, mobility, digital technology and equalization funding
Weakening academic freedom	Statutory guarantees, pluralism, transparency of partnerships, and independent evaluation
Transferring without means	Conflicting balance sheet, indexation and dispute settlement clause
Multiplying the unmeasured objectives	Starting value, target, pilot and annual publication for each policy

Conclusion

Yes Breizh believes that a Brittany responsible for its future must be able to link what is currently separated: knowledge, orientation, high schools, apprenticeship, continuing training, universities, research, languages and territorial development. Devolution only makes sense if it improves the success and equality in a concrete way. The rule is therefore clear for Yes Breizh: more Breton responsibility, but also more guaranteed rights, independent evaluation and public accountability.

Mobilized resources and precautions

• Region Bretagne, Mission 1 — High school and student life, initial budget 2026.
• Region Bretagne, Mission 2 — Employment, training and professional guidance, initial budget 2026.
• Breizh Europa, Education, Education, Universities, 2019.
• MEDEF, La formation professionnelle, guide of 2014: principles of skills management, not positive law 2026.
• SNP, Government Programme 2026: childhood, school meals, higher education, apprenticeships and teachers.

The data for the four Départements are not extrapolated to the Loire-Atlantique. Old proposals have been selected based on their current relevance; the Scottish measures are inspirations.

Notes and clarifications

1. IDÉO is the Regional public information and guidance service in Brittany, It is completely free, neutral and anonymous. Run by the Brittany Region (4), it is aimed at all audiences (secondary school students, high school students, university students, employees, job seekers) to guide them in their choice of profession, training or professional reorientation. ↩

2. The PRIC (Regional Investment Pact in Skills) is a scheme co-financed by the State and the regions to finance the vocational training of vulnerable jobseekers and meet the needs of the professions in tension. The current generation covers the period 2024-2027. ↩

3. The Compensation Ségur refers to the funding provided by the State or public authorities (such as the CNSA) to cover the cost of salary increases (Ségur premium of €183 net/month) extended to personnel in the health, social and medico-social sectors. Its implementation regularly poses financing difficulties for associations and departments. ↩

4. Any creation of an observatory or agency etc. will have to be linked to the disappearance of at least one other equivalent public entity with the full reinstatement of the staff. Adjustments may be made subsequently. ↩

5. All institutions, whether public or private. ↩

6. The Egalim law adopted in October 2018 and subsequently supplemented (notably EGalim 2) aims to protect the income of French (and therefore Breton) farmers, and to promote healthier, safer, and more sustainable food. It rebalances commercial relations and imposes strict quality quotas for collective catering. ↩

7. A GREF collects the training offer, monitors the relationship between employment and training, and animates the networks of professionals within their ‘territory’. Yes Breizh suggests a reflection on the respective roles of entities dealing closely or not with the same subjects in order to guarantee the effectiveness of the implementation of the decisions taken, for the Breton women and men. ↩

The thematic dossiers of Levrig 2027 by Yes Breizh

• 1. Statute, institutions, devolution and Constitution
• 2. Public finances, budget and fiscal autonomy
• 2 bis. Budgetary analysis France – Brittany 5
• 3. The public service in Brittany
• 4. Health in Brittany
• 5. Disability in Brittany
• 6. Education, training and higher education
• 7. Culture, languages and media
• 8. Breton identity, transmission and cohesion
• 9. Housing in Brittany
• 10. Employment, businesses and economic development
• 11. Economy, trade and mobility
• 12. Agriculture and food
• 13. Sea, coast and fishing
• 14. Energy, climate and the ecological transition
• 15. Digitalization and sovereignty
• 16. Security, justice and defense
• 17. Europe and internationally
• 18. Breton Diaspora and international outreach