The Minister of National Education Nicole Belloubet recognized Thursday that there would once again be a shortage of teachers from regular schools at the start of the next school year “in certain academies”, notably those of Versailles and Créteil. “We know that we are in difficulty recruiting teachers in certain academies,” she stressed on Franceinfo. “It is true that in Versailles and Créteil, since the competitions are regionalized we know that there are recruitment difficulties. (…) In these academies, of course, we will have to recruit contractual staff for the next school year”, added the minister.
“We have been facing this difficulty for several years, but we have a long-term response which will be at work from the next school year, we are going to modify the initial training of our teachers”, underlined Nicole Belloubet, recalling the reform announced at the beginning of April by the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron.
“Continued decline” of eligible candidates in Paris
According to the FSU-SNUipp, the almost final assessment of the eligibility results for the school teacher competition is “very worrying because this portends losses of positions during admission, particularly in academies regularly in deficit”. According to the first primary union, the ratio of eligible candidates per position is 1.46 on average at the national level but is less than one for Créteil (0.71 candidates per position compared to 0.63 in 2023), Versailles (0. 60 against 0.65 in 2023) and Guyana (0.40, against 0.48 in 2023).
“In these academies, which have already been in deficit for several years, the start of the school year already promises to be complicated,” warns its general secretary Guislaine David, who also observes the “continuous decline” of eligible candidates in Paris (1.35 this year). year, compared to 1.43 in 2023 and 1.83 in 2022). Other academies, on the other hand, display much more comfortable rates, such as Strasbourg (2.36 candidates per position) or Poitiers (2.55), according to this union.
Nicole Belloubet is counting on the modification of the initial training of teachers to combat this recurring problem: “It is a very structuring, very exciting reform”, she said, recalling that aspiring teachers would take the competitive examination at Bac +3 and no longer Bac+5. “And then in the two years that follow you will continue your training by being compensated or paid, 900 euros the first year 1,800 the second year, and by completing a master’s degree,” she concluded.