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24/02/2008, 18:16 Deby Joined on 23/08/2004 Posts 638 Re: What do they do after the Bac? Just a question, is there an option to send her to the UK to stay with a helpful relative to do further study, she could support herself by getting a job.  If she has 3 languages she should be able to find work using her languages at a higher rate than waitressing and her hours could be flexible.  I am thinking call centres tend to offer more flexible working hours in a shift pattern, she would get some business experience as well. Deby   http://www.chateau-de-clerac.com    Report

24/02/2008, 21:22 Val_2 Joined on 23/08/2004 Posts 3,055 Re: What do they do after the Bac?  Gemini_man wrote: Hi Aly, It's a problem isn't it!! I have a daughter who is doing a BTS in Tourism and a son who takes his BAC very shortly. My daughter has signed on with CAF and as she is now over 18 she receives about 200€ per month as a student as she has no income. She also receives 465€ per month (for 9 months of the year), towards her accomodation costs, from CROUS. Until she signed on with CAF I received 150€ per month family allowance (until she was 20 and so long as she was in full time education) - I no longer receive this. My son takes his BAC in June but as you know we have to decide before then what he might want to do assuming he passes. So, he's just started 2 weeks holiday during which we WILL talk about and decide what he wants to do next year. His choice is to join the British army but his parents are not over-enthusiastic about that! Other options are to join the French army (would mean giving up British nationality and applying for French) or maybe to apply to the Gendarmes. there are other possibilities and I suspect he will end up doing a BTS. Obviously I don't know about your situation but if your daughter is boursier I would have thought maybe the best option is to consider a BTS for 2 years and if in the meantime she finds a job so much the better. I know you aren't a noob in France but here's a useful link for the different BTS's available http://tinyurl.com/284gw9 - not all are available in all areas. I can't help with regard to signing on with ASSEDIC as we haven't been down that line but I would be happy to share info with you where I can. My daughter also did her BTS in Tourism Production/Ventes and then went onto University here at Brest which is the only place in the country to do her Licence Professionelle in Tourism Herbergement/Production etc which she passed with a mention. The downside of all these years of extra study is that there are no jobs available here in our dept with over 100 CV's/LM's sent out she finally found work for a very exclusive hotel chain in the UK along with five other french people and is earning well over the basic salary she could have expected here. The amounts the CAF and Crous allocated your daughter was very much the same as mine received and my son also at uni here also receives roughly that amount too - we could never have afford for them both to go to a UK uni had we still been living there. All these extra diplomas are very good for the future and without any sort of qualification at all, work is hard to find here in France.    Report

28/02/2008, 18:34 Tourangelle Joined on 31/08/2004 37 Posts 934 Re: What do they do after the Bac? you are so right, Val.    Report

01/03/2008, 15:01 Charlotte3 Joined on 23/08/2004 northwest Mayenne Posts 295 Re: What do they do after the Bac? An update..... After much discussion (at last) she has phoned Assedic and registered with them from the end of June. The very helpful chap there has forwarded her dossier to Anpe and she has an appointment with them for Monday morning. If she can't find work she will return to school in September to do an STG, probably in NRC, which she thinks might be the best option for her (thanks Frenchie, I appreciate your comments on this). To return to the UK is not an option for her, but eventually she hopes to live and work in Germany. We have discussed it, but we feel it is a bit on an "easy option" and quite frankly a cop out. We didn't leave the UK just to go running back when things got tough. We simply have to find the best options here in France for her, just like all those French parents with unmotivated teenagers do! Sorry if I seem a bit aggressive, but we as a family feel very strongly about that. I'll post again after the Anpe visit, hopefully we might find some info helpful to others in or soon to be in the same situation!! Aly "Care for the sick, feed the hungry and clothe the naked,"    Report

07/03/2008, 19:37 Jura Joined on 28/11/2005 Posts 714 Re: What do they do after the Bac? I would say that Assedic and ANPE are a continuation of the French education assembly line these days. My son left and returned to Australia (since arriving 'home' 3 months ago he now is studying at college, doing an apprenticeship PLUS has a weekend job...the best thing he ever did was leave here) his brother will be hot on his heels soon due to the non-existent prospects in this land. Fortunately my three younger sons will not have to endure the frustration my two elder sons have had to endure. You might just have to face the fact that the 'best options' will never appear here for your kids. Maybe you do not want to go running back...but it might be the best thing for your kids to do in the end.  They are starting out in life...you are not. I feel you are trying to hold your kid back in order to make your life here work. If she wants to go to Germany then let her. Its her life. And if thats aggressive then I am not sorry...but its fact.    Report

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