Scope of vocational and life long training
Find all the practical information you need about initial and life long training.
"Lifelong learning" (FTLV) is organized on the following principle: everyone undergoes initial training during their youth (school status for pupils, then university status for students), then continuing training when a person enters working life.
Differences between initial and life long training
| Initial training | Continuing education |
|---|---|
Student/student card National diploma or DE Daytime Exams/validation BULAC borrower National LMD rates, specific DE rates Courses in lecture halls or TD groups Registration via Parcoursup | Trainee/contract Training Schedules : evenings or Saturdays Tests/attestations at the end of the course with the possibility of certification BULAC reader Fees voted Small groupes Direct regitration Possibility to be help financially by the employer Special case for people returning to school |
Initial training
Initial training
Who does it concern?
Young people under school and university status, as well as apprentices, and any adult who does not meet the criteria for resuming studies
in continuing education.
What does it consist of?
It includes vocational education, higher education and apprenticeships.
Vocational education
Organized by vocational lycées or CFAs (apprentice training centers), its aim is to provide qualified vocational training for young people leaving secondary school. In two years, it prepares students for the Certificat d'Aptitude Professionnel (CAP). In four years, to the professional baccalaureate (BAC Pro). These diplomas provide a qualification in a particular trade. It's possible to go on to a BTS, a licence pro, or even an engineering degree.
Higher education
This offers long courses (licentiates, masters, grandes écoles diplomas). All these diplomas can be prepared under a specific employment contract: the apprenticeship contract.
Please note: subject to these diplomas being registered with the RNCP.
It also offers short vocational courses that prepare either for a university technology diploma (DUT) or a higher technician's certificate (BTS).
Apprenticeships
The aim of apprenticeships is to provide young people aged 16 to 25 with general, theoretical and practical training, leading to a vocational diploma or qualification ranging from the CAP/BEP (most often) to an engineering diploma.
The apprenticeship system offers sandwich courses up to the age of 30. During the apprenticeship contract, the young person is an apprentice, i.e. both an employee of a company and a student at an apprentice training center (CFA), or vocational high school.
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Continuing education
Continuing education
Continuing vocational training has two characteristics:
- Its construction leaves an important place to collective bargaining.
- It includes access modalities varying according to each individual's status.
The social partners and the State have created and set up various schemes taking into account different individual statuses and specific training issues.
These schemes are:
- Company training plan
- Individual training leave
- Professional transition project
- Personal training account (CPF)
- Counseling on professional development (CEP)
- Apprenticeship
- Professionalization contracts
Think about checking out the Financing section on our site.
What are the objectives of continuing professional development?
- Maintaining the employee's skills at a workstation
- Maintaining the employee in employment
- Favoring the development of skills and access to different levels of professional qualification
- Contributing to social promotion and economic and cultural development
- Favoring the professional integration or reintegration of unemployed people
Who are the players?
The players involved in FPC are:
- Companies and their employees
- Training providers
- Financers (France Compétences, the regions, skills operators (OPCOs))
Please visit the Financing section on our website.
What is an OPCO?
It is a skills operator, created by the social partners and approved by the State. Its mission is to collect and manage company contributions to the financing of continuing vocational training. They support the development of employment through training, by supporting companies' training projects and responding to the specific needs of their members. Their actions are the result of joint decisions, guaranteed by equal representation of employers and employees in the sectors or professional branches they represent.
The OPCO can be branch or interprofessional. Some OPCOs only collect contributions for individual training leave: these are the regional interprofessional FONGECIFs. Other OPCOs collect other company contributions (the single legal contribution, the conventional contribution or the voluntary contribution).
It can collect all company contributions to continuing vocational training: this is the case, for example, of Uniformation, OPCO of the Social Economy, Social Housing and Social Protection professional branches.
Note: Companies are both the preferred places for implementing training and, along with the regions and the State, the main funders of continuing vocational training.
Any questions?
Any questions?
Hours
We are open to the public Monday to Thursday, 10am to 12:30pm and 2pm to 5pm.
Contacts
Email. formation.continue@inalco.fr
Tel. Chinese, Japanese, Russian: 01 81 70 11 44
Tel. Literal Arabic, Arabic dialects, Persian, Turkish: 01 81 70 11 47
Tel. Other languages: 01 81 70 10 52
Tel. Resumption of studies: 01 81 70 11 45
Location
Address: Inalco 65 rue des Grands Moulins 75013 Paris
M°: Bibliothèque F. Mitterrand (line 14 or RER C)
Professional training players
Acteurs de la formation professionnelle (208.53 KB, .pdf)
Les acteurs de la formation et de l'orientation (107.11 KB, .pdf)