Less than ten days after his defeat in the first round of the legislative elections in Loiret, the former Minister of National Education Jean-Michel Blanquer is expected to join the University of Paris-Panthéon-Assas (Paris 2), learned franceinfo at the university, Tuesday, June 21.
A press release from the university, however, qualifies an internal message from its president, according to which this position would be specially created on request for the occasion. Paris-Panthéon-Assas University denounces a “partial broadcast of internal exchanges” and “wants to clarify”. She claims not to have been the subject of‘”no external request”that“no ad hoc job creation is planned”and “the recruitment procedure will be strictly followed if (its) authorities decide to continue the process”.
In a message sent to teachers in the public law department of the university and of which AFP had a copy, confirming information from Mediapart and Le Canard Enchainé, the president of Paris-Panthéon-Assas Stéphane Braconnier nevertheless explained that he “We were asked to consider the possibility of welcoming within our university the former minister Jean-Michel Blanquer, agrégé in public law in 1996 and specialist in constitutional law and comparative public law”.
In his message, Stéphane Braconnier felt that the university “could benefit from the contacts and institutional expertise of Mr. Blanquer”. “This position, on a dedicated and newly created job, would remain permanently acquired at the university.” The president of the Parisian university also argued the “unusual, even exceptional, nature of the request”of which he said he was “grasped”without specifying the origin of this referral.
Since this message from the president, and despite the nuance provided by the university, the reactions of the educational community have been strong. “We could say that this is good news since, apparently, we can create jobs on demand”ironically on franceinfo the general secretary of the first union of teacher-researchers, the SNESUP-FSU, Anne Roger.
“We completely reverse the procedure by not starting from the field and the needs but from the need to find a place for a minister who is no longer a minister”she laments. “It’s all the more disgusting since we keep repeating that the under-staffing is enormous and that it takes almost 7,000 positions to get the university back on its feet. We are told that it is not There is no magic money and we must stop believing that it is by snapping our fingers that we find the means.