The mobility programs which occurred after the reform of the BTEC National diploma have let difficulties to come to light. That’s why we had to askfor an amendment to extend the last mobility program from 12 to 24 months. Henceforth the students from upper sixth form are concerned by the program and so they’ve got 3 years to prepare themselvesto it; The former program was composed of a four week training period in a shop in London with a cultural, linguistic and educational one week training. Due to the reform which reduces the studies to 3 years (instead of 4), our students have completely changed. - they are now younger, they haven’t got the BTEC first diploma yet, they are not selected anymore to pursue their studies and get a BTEC National diploma. - their lack of maturity and their lower educational level make it hard for them to adapt themselves to London’s life. - their too weak professional skills and knowledges cause some troubles at work at their family’s home. - they can’t take part in social or selling activities. - they hardly communicate with the staff team and the customers. - they even sometimes refuse to talk - some of them have real difficulties to accept foreign family life and get homesick. - some of them quit and came back home early. Our students have got problem to adapt themselves in a big metropolis and come up against the difficulty to speak and understand a foreign language. That’s the reason why we’ve definitely decided to postpone the mobility program until the upper sixth form, counting on our students’ skills and maturity improvement. For the next mobility program, we’re going to select fifteen students from the upper sixth form in selling (in the European section) who have trained themselves for 3 years; maturity, motivation and regular and attentive preparation are required. All of them will be put in a smaller geographical environment so that they’ll be able to find their way about. They won’t be isolated and will be more supervised. This new program will take place in March 2015 (which fits to the last training period of the upper sixth form). Because it’s the last training period, we can expect better professional and language knowledges and a stronger maturity from our students.