{"id":49296,"date":"2019-09-03T13:50:09","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T20:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/world.edu\/?p=49296"},"modified":"2019-09-03T17:15:51","modified_gmt":"2019-09-04T00:15:51","slug":"parcoursup-a-gps-post-ferry-orientation-not-so-easy-to-handle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/world.edu\/parcoursup-a-gps-post-ferry-orientation-not-so-easy-to-handle\/","title":{"rendered":"Parcoursup, a GPS post-ferry orientation not so easy to handle"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThese words, the under-20s may not know them.\u00a0But like Francis Cabrel sang in a 1981 title, bachelors who do not yet\u00a0have a post<\/a>\u00a0in higher education for the fall of 2019 seek to take\u00a0“their place in the traffic”<\/a>\u00a0… And this before the\u00a0Parcoursup<\/a>\u00a0site\u00a0, whose complementary phase opened on June 25, will close on September 11th.<\/p>\n

This countdown is an opportunity to review the philosophy underlying this platform of assignment in universities, schools and preparatory classes, launched in 2018 with the promise of better support for young people in their choices.<\/p>\n

A\u00a0semantic<\/a>\u00a0(words) and\u00a0semiotic<\/a>\u00a0(signs)\u00a0analysis\u00a0indicates that it borrows many codes from the automotive GPS universe.\u00a0Without succeeding in adopting the intuitive system of orientation.<\/p>\n

New repository<\/h4>\n

For the last two years, the platform has had to orient a little more than\u00a0600 000 high school graduates<\/a>\u00a0each year to more than\u00a014 000 courses<\/a>\u00a0.\u00a0No wonder there are some traffic jams on the back roads.\u00a0Yet the new system was precisely put in place to avoid slowdowns.<\/p>\n

The former Admission Post-Bac platform, known as the APB, was replaced by Parcoursup on January 15, 2018, following the “Plan \u00c9tudiants” and the\u00a0ORE law of March 8, 2018<\/a>\u00a0.\u00a0The first letter of this law stresses from the outset that the post-bac orientation is a major challenge for the Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation.<\/p>\n

However, to change course, it also needed a change of codes.\u00a0Following the paths traced by\u00a0Algirdas Julien Greimas<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Roland Barthes<\/a>\u00a0, let us decipher the evolutions of visual symbols operated from APB to Parcoursup, to understand what is behind this notion of\u00a0“course”<\/a>\u00a0.
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Choice process<\/h4>\n

The former name emphasized admission, an administrative step that formalized registration at an institution.\u00a0The word “ferry” was still there.\u00a0The new name replaces the process at the stage point.<\/p>\n

Lined with the mention “Enter the higher education”, the new signature invites to the movement.\u00a0The wording “post bac” was included in a blue phylactery, like the bubble of a comic strip.\u00a0Or more likely in the minds of young graduates like SMS received!\u00a0It was graphically referring to a set of questions and answers.<\/p>\n

While the APB logotype evoked dialogue, Parcoursup’s logo adopts a typography more readable and less anxiety-provoking.\u00a0The tiny case is more consistent with the environment of electronic writing in vogue on all the\u00a0graphic world of the web<\/a>\u00a0.\u00a0The lower case is both the default writing on a keyboard, more natural and informal, while the capital letter sometimes evokes urgency, even danger.<\/p>\n

The Parcoursup logotype is two-thirds of a cold, serious color.\u00a0In contrast, a hot color comes to slice the letter “s” in the heart of the word.\u00a0The orange-red reminds the importance of the issue, draws attention.\u00a0The two-color “s” is a chromatic transition letter.\u00a0Its shape alone evokes a winding path.\u00a0And finally its double color allows the “up” status apart.\u00a0“Up” also means “up” in English.\u00a0Is it quietly inviting to a transition to the English language?<\/p>\n

The alternation of colors, found in the three small arrows, announces a stepwise process.\u00a0You can also see three steps, a gradual climb to higher education.\u00a0A ternary rhythm modeled on the first part of the European reform known as LMD (license, bac +3, master, bac +5, doctorate, bac +8).<\/p>\n

Fuzzy navigation criteria<\/h4>\n

Usually, on a car GPS, it is necessary to indicate five important variables to allow him to optimize a course: a place of departure, a place of arrival, dates, personal preferences of way, economic rules.<\/p>\n

Ironically, the same questions may arise for Parcoursup’s candidate to optimize his path to higher education.\u00a0But we must recognize that it is a difficult GPS to use:<\/p>\n