While this new school year was threatened by a shortage of teachers, the Minister of National Education announced this Monday morning on franceinfo that 4,500 contract teachers have been hired. “For a general total of around 35,000 contract workers, this concerns 1% of the workforce in the first degree and 6.5 to 8% of the workforce in the second degree, it is reasonable“, specifies Pap Ndiaye. It is approximately 1,000 more than the figure advanced by Pap Ndiaye during the start of the school year, on September 1st.
The Minister described the start of the school year as “good“given the current difficulties and even”better in some academies“. He refuted the alarmist findings and the figures put forward by the main secondary school teachers’ union. The Snes-FSU announced last week that there was a lack of at least one teacher on a fixed post in 62% of establishments on a sample of 554 establishments. These are not “not figures that I confirm“, commented the minister, conceding however some “frictional absences“, “problems to solve“: “it’s lace that the rectorates deal with“.
“Fewer contractors, that’s our goal“, however advanced the Minister of National Education who specified thatan exceptional recruitment competition would take place in the spring of 2023 for the first degree.
Wage increases
Pap Ndiaye also confirmed that teachers starting their careers “will receive 2,000 euros and then teachers in mid-career will also see their remuneration increase“from September 2023. Emmanuel Macron announced on August 25, during a back-to-school meeting of academy rectors at the Sorbonne, a salary increase for teachers at the start of their career who will receive 2,000 euros net monthly.
“The increases will also affect mid-career teachers. We will specify the percentage increases from October, when the finance law will be discussed in Parliament“, details the Minister of National Education. “Contract workers do not benefit from a salary scale and salary increase comparable to what regular agents may have“, insists the Minister of National Education.
“This will be even more true with the salary increases that we are going to propose. Today, there is also a dish in careers that last at least a decade that we need to touch so that mid-career teachers see their progression materialize from a financial point of view. .” Pap Ndiaye also wishes “reflect on the conditions of change“, “especially young teachers“. According to him, “the main reason“why contractual secondary school teachers do not wish to be tenured, it is”the national movement“who does that”you can be transferred 500 kilometers from home“.