Emmanuel Macron wants “post-baccalaureate training” for teachers, in order to allow young people to be trained earlier in this profession, he announced on Friday 1er september. The Head of State specified that he had asked the new Minister of National Education, Gabriel Attal, to work on this subject, during a travel for the pre-entry of teachers in a professional high school in Orange (Vaucluse).
“What I asked the minister is to work on training. What we want to do is also a post-baccalaureate training, professionalizing, more visible, which will allow us to better plan our needs, and in a way to return to a system that we knew in the past. , which worked, which is a bit like that of the Normal Schools”developed Emmanuel Macron.
“We must be able to allow our young bachelors and bachelors who want to pursue this beautiful profession to be trained in the fundamental knowledge necessary for the teaching profession from post-baccalaureate, to have an integrated training, which will also allow us, in relation to the needs that we know[ra] in three, four, five years to have the right recruitment system and not just to open competitions year after year”he added.
A little earlier, during a videoconference with heads of vocational high schools, President Macron had already indicated that he had asked the Minister to ” to work “ to this device “in the coming months”For “that we can mount it in the spring and deploy it”.
Shortage of candidates
“I think we need to completely change the recruitment system for our teachers”he added, without specifying whether this new device would concern teachers of the first and second degree and if it would be the only possible way of training.
By recruiting post-baccalaureate, “we are limiting one of the phenomena we have today, which sometimes creates frustration and which in my opinion is under-effective, that is to say having some of our teachers returning after a university curriculum which is totally disproportionate and sometimes decorrelated with what they are going to do”. Teacher recruitment competitions currently take place in the second year of the master’s, ie five years after obtaining the baccalaureate.
Faced with the shortage of candidates for teacher competitions, the previous Minister of Education, Pap Ndiaye, said in June that he wanted to bring back the recruitment competition for school teachers to bac + 3 “in 2025”. “Even if nothing has been decided yet, we hope to implement this reform in 2025. The President of the Republic and the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, are very favorable to it”defended the now permanent representative of France to the Council of Europe in a interview at World.
The World with AFP