Partner

Even if the trainers work on guidance, many things are done but not coordinated. Guidance is made by specialised class, by sector; there is a real lack of structuring of this sort of action. There is no particular time devoted to guidance.  Students do not feel really helped, they have very personal needs, questions, and they would like to obtain answers adapted to their personal needs. Girls and boys are not especially guided the same way, trainers, families and students often have a not proper picture of the jobs: they often think that jobs have sex: some of them would like to choose a job and they do not select it due to gender stereotypes.

As for the external partnership, the trainers says that the persons in charge of guidance in the different organisations outside the school do not know properly the different sectors and diplomas of agriculture and sometimes provide wrong information to the pupils.
As the same time, the external partners of guidance are aware that they have a lack of knowledge about agriculture in general: sectors, jobs; they often think that agricultural schools are aimed only to prepare pupils to be farmers. They have to learn more about the different levels of trainings and the different jobs of the sector.

The vocational training centre of Melle has planned a short training for these partners allowing people working in the different sectors to learn more about the diplomas of the school. The training might be in march 2009. The European partnership Leonardo da Vinci would be an important step to improve the guidance of the pupils.

Useful internet sites about guidance in France:

http://legifrance.gouv.fr