In a report made public on February 1, the Court recommends making the course that leads to teaching professions more coherent and to diversify the teachers’ recruitment food.
By Violaine Morin
“National education has more and more difficulty recruiting.” The analysis of the decreases of candidates for teaching competitions has not escaped Pierre Moscovici, first president of the Court of Auditors, who presented The 1 er February before the press His Report “Become a teacher: initial training and recruitment of teachers from the first and second degrees”. He would have missed about “1,000 positions in external education competitions, each year, between 2017 and 2021”, said Mr. Moscovici. A shortage particularly noted in 2022, where national education was forced to fall back on the massive recourse to contract workers, and which affects in particular two academies – those of Versailles and Créteil – and certain disciplines called “in tension”.
To support the observation of a crisis of attractiveness already marked in fact – the number of registrants in the competition has been down continuous for several years – the Court of Auditors commissioned from the Ipsos Survey Institute A survey, carried out with 2,000 university students (in license, master or doctorate), preparatory class, BTS and IUT, on the attractiveness of the profession of professor. Assessment: 12 % of them say “to consider very seriously to become a teacher”, 32 % do not “exclude him” and 14 % have already thought about it but have given up.
Logical corollary of the weakness of the number of candidates in scientific matters, students from the old sector L of the school are more likely to say very interested in the profession (20 %) as well as students in letters, Languages and philosophy (23 %). Among the attractiveness factors, the Court notes that “employment security, the level of salary, the interest of exercising in the public sector are little cited (between 13 % and 25 %)”. These are the conditions for exercising the profession that worry students. They are particularly concerned with the difficulties encountered with students and management of their behavior. The devalued image of the profession arrives second in the rejection factors. 2>
“unsatisfactory” training
The Court advances several solutions to settle the recruitment crisis, but without venturing into the field of remuneration, which are being negotiated between the Ministry of Education and the unions. It proposes to experiment with tenure of contract workers “in academies in difficulty and disciplines in tension”. They would be recruited on the basis of the master’s degree, after a first contract “from three to five years”. This diversification of recruitment methods, already at work in fact, must be made possible on a larger scale, “as is practiced elsewhere in the administration,” said Pierre Moscovici before journalists.
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