Regulatory texts

Below you will find a collection of regulatory texts relating to education and student life:

Data retention – SISINE applications

The SISINE application allows the education management services of higher education establishments, when registering students in the establishments' management information systems, to find, based on civil status data (surnames, first names , sex, date and place of birth) and data relating to the baccalaureate (session, series), the national identifier number of a pupil/student (INE);

The processing therefore aims to limit the multiple generation of student identifiers in the information systems of higher education establishments in order to enable the production of reliable statistics by ministerial statistical services.

The data used by the SISINE application relates to the identity of a student (sex, date of birth, surname, first name, French department of birth) and their education (national student number, registration establishment (if known) of the previous year, year of baccalaureate, type of baccalaureate prepared or taken. They are collected by the ministerial statistical service of the Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation, located 1 rue Descartes in Paris (75005) through surveys of all higher education establishments. A complement is provided by data from databases of baccalaureate holders, produced by the ministerial statistical service of the Ministry of National Education.

Students' personal data are kept by the ministry for a maximum period of 2 years.

The recipients of this data are the agents of the ministerial statistical service of the ministry responsible for higher education and research and within the framework of their responsibilities and within the limits of the need to know, the education management services of the establishments of higher education, when registering students in the establishments' management information systems.

Your rights

You have a right of access to data concerning you, a right of rectification and a right to limit processing. Within the limits of legal conditions, you can also object to their processing and request their erasure.

To exercise these rights, you can contact the ministerial statistical service of the ministry responsible for higher education and research, by email, at the address: project.ines[at]enseignementsup.gouv.fr. It is also to this email address that you can ask your questions about the processing of your data.

For any questions relating to the processing of data used by SISINE, you can contact the data protection officer, guarantor of compliance with the regulations on the protection of personal data by the Ministry of Higher Education and Research. dpd[at]enseignementsup.gouv.fr.

If you consider that your rights are not respected or that the processing of data does not comply with regulations, you can send a complaint to the CNIL, online (www.cnil.fr) or by post at The following address: 3 place de Fontenoy – TSA 80715 – 75334 PARIS CEDEX 07

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