At the start of the 2023 academic year, more than 16% of vacant secondary teacher positions will not be filled. A situation that worries the teachers’ unions.
The start of the school year is fast approaching, and the shortage of teachers is becoming more and more precise as the weeks pass. Whether in primary or secondary education, many positions have not been filled, and some subjects will be particularly affected. A state of affairs that could leave thousands of students on the floor. According to calculations by the franceinfo investigation center, for the 2023/2024 school year, 18.8% of the places open to the session of the school teacher competition have not been filled. Same observation for the secondary: 16.6% of positions did not find their candidate.
The subjects that will most often suffer are classics (41 admitted this year for 134 vacancies). German (95 admitted for 225 positions) in the lead. But also music education, mathematics and physics-chemistry, which rose very high in the rankings. Novelty of the year according to observers, the Spaniard would also begin to be in difficulty with nearly 22.9% of unfilled vacancies. Other subjects are at risk, in particular regional languages, which have difficulty recruiting teachers. Of the three open Occitan teacher positions, none found a taker.
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The profession no longer attracts
The problem of recruitment is well known to national education. Each year, there is a cumulative loss in the number of positions. This makes the work of those who remain even more complicated, for remuneration considered too low in relation to the work and the overtime provided, according to the unions. In 2022, the former Minister of National Education announced several measures to try to stop this phenomenon. “The analysis is quite obvious: these measures were insufficient. There are salary reasons and working conditions that demotivate candidates. [Emmanuel] Macron had promised a shock of attractiveness for the profession, but we are far from the mark” explains for our colleagues Sophie Venetitay, general secretary of the Snes-FSU union.
Aspiring teachers now prefer to turn to other careers at the end of their course “Sectors such as IT or engineering are currently experiencing strong demand in the private sector. Some students prefer to become managers in these sectors rather than teachers in vocational high schools, a situation considered less rewarding” according to sociologist Géraldine Farges. Since mid-May, the unions have been warning about the positions that will remain vacant at the start of the school year. The government wants to be reassuring, emphasizing that “authorizations have been given to the academies most in need to draw from the additional lists.”
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