Emmanuel Macron wants “post-baccalaureate training” for teachers, to allow young people to be trained earlier in this profession, he announced on Friday, September 1. The Head of State said he had asked the new Minister of National Education, Gabriel Attal, to work on this subject, during a trip for the pre-entry of teachers to a vocational 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, ”explained 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 [will] in three, four, five years to have the right recruitment system and not simply 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 “work” on this system “in the coming months”, so that “we can mount it in the spring and deploy it.”
Shortage of candidates
“I think we need to completely change the system of recruiting our teachers,” he added, without specifying whether this new system would concern primary and secondary teachers and whether it would be the only possible way of training. .
By recruiting post-baccalaureate, “we limit one of the phenomena we have today, which sometimes creates frustration and which is in my opinion under-effective, that is to say having some our teachers who return after a university course 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 degree, i.e. 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 an interview with Le Monde.
