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Universities and territories
In France, the number of higher education graduates in the 25-34 age group is good (49.4% compared to an average of 45.6% for all OECD countries). However, if we look at the geographical distribution of this graduation rate, we can see that there are still territorial inequalities with regard to acc... View publication 22 Documents
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Becoming a teacher : initial training and recruitment of primary and secondary school teachers
Pupils' success at school owes a great deal to the quality of the teaching and the support provided by their teachers throughout their learning process. The quality of teacher recruitment and training is thus crucial for school performance. The recruitment and initial training of future teachers hav... View publication 22 Documents
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French Federation of Cardiology
The French Federation of Cardiology (FFC), a non-profit organisation governed by the law of 1901 and created in 1964, has been recognised as a public-interest organisation since 1977. It brings together 27 independent regional cardiology associations, spread throughout the country, mainly around the... View publication 22 Documents
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The organisation of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games
The First President of the Court of Accounts was heard on 10 January by the Senate's Committee on Culture, Education and Communication and then by the National Assembly’s Committee on Cultural Affairs and Education. These hearings follow the submission to Parliament of a progress report on the prepa... View publication 22 Documents
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Public prevention policies for occupational health in companies
Occupational health is a major issue: while under the Labour Code, companies are responsible for protecting the health of their employees, nearly one million accidents, several hundred of which are fatal, and nearly 50,000 new cases of occupational diseases are recorded each year. To compensate vict... View publication 22 Documents
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Vaccination against Covid-19
Today’s report is the first by the Court of Accounts to specifically address the context, organisation and results of the Covid-19 vaccination campaign. In December 2020, this vaccination campaign began, just a few months after the pandemic became global. Initially targeted at the population groups ... View publication 22 Documents
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French Public Health Agency
Inspired by the British model when it was created in 2016, the French Public Health Agency (Santé Publique France - SPF) is an agency under the Ministry of Health. It was created from the merger of four organisations to improve the coherence and efficiency of public policies in the fields of epidemi... View publication 22 Documents
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Tracing the contacts of people infected with Covid-19
Between 2020 and August 2022, 34.5 million cases of Covid-19 contamination were identified in France (excluding the results of self-tests). More than 150,000 people died, of which almost 126,400 were in hospital. Contact tracing, deployed from May 2020 after the first lockdown, is one of the tools f... View publication 22 Documents
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Raising public donations related to the health crisis
With the authority to audit the use of resources by organisations appealing for public donations, the Court of Accounts conducts audits into the use of donations received following crises or disasters (Asian tsunami in 2004, Haiti earthquake in 2010, Notre-Dame de Paris fire in 2019). This audit by ... View publication 22 Documents
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Telework in the civil service after the health crisis
Telework under general laws, which appeared informally in the 1990s, was introduced in the civil service in 2012 by the so-called Sauvadet law. It is distinct from “enforced” telework in exceptional circumstances, imposed by the employer to protect staff and simultaneously ensure the continuity of p... View publication 22 Documents
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