Liberation (France):
Annabelle Allouch: "This is the moment when individual value can be recognized"
18 May 2018
Examination is therefore a democratic tool of social climbing? Examination is the tool that makes it possible to establish the symbolic value of the graduate from the certification of his apprenticeships. This is the first act of recognition of a qualification on the labor market. But we can question the idea of ascension. A study conducted by economists Eric Maurin and Sandra McNally on the students of May 68 shows it well. The disorganization of the baccalaureate and university exams, often "lightened", ended that year with higher success rates than in previous years. However, the students finally reached social positions that they would not have been able to claim if they had undergone the obstacle of the exam (see also page 4). Social justice is not guaranteed by the examination, it should instead be interested in alternative methods of recognition of knowledge.
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The "devalued" ferry of 1968, social lift model
In 2005, the economist Eric Maurin published with his British counterpart Sandra McNally a disconcerting study on the effects of the "light" tank of 1968 (1). Entitled Vive la Révolution! and subtitled "The long-term benefits of May 1968", this work was intended to respond to the accepted notion that, by accepting that the examination be reduced to an oral spent on a day and noted on the spot in the wake, the institution had issued that year a diploma worth nothing.