Less numerous than their European counterparts, while their missions are more and more diversified, the former guidance counselors-psychologists feel "abused" by the reform of access to higher education

They are the ones who receive the students of terminale somewhat confused by the reform of the access to the higher studies, adopted definitively on February 15th. It is often they, too, who have been mobilized to animate Parcoursup's presentation meetings , the new Admission post bac platform, and the "Orientation weeks", organized for the first time in high schools. in December and February to help students fine-tune their study project. However, the government has communicated more about the new role of teachers and senior teachers in orientation issues than about the role of counselors-psychologists ("CO-psy"). For the reform of the ferry too.

In the "CO-psy", called since the start of 2017 psychologists of national education ("psy-EN"), the pill is hard to swallow. The latter regularly act as scapegoats for the failures of the French-style referral system and sometimes concentrate the resentments of disoriented students against them.

One counselor for 1,500 students
"By saying that in the future teachers will be able to do the same job as we are trained a few hours to questions of guidance, the ministry is again mistreating our profession, comments, bitter, Corine Tissier, representative of the union SNES-FSU, first trade union organization of the second degree. It suggests that we are no longer able to perform this mission. " Even as the interviewed psychologists are trying to carry out, despite, argue they, their small numbers: about 3 600. Either a counselor for 1500 high school students, against a 800 average in Europe, and for 400 in some Northern European countries. In 2002, the French ratio was one counselor for 1,300 students ...

"I manage to receive only students who can not do it all ...