It is already not always easy to find replacements when teachers are absent, and this is likely to get even worse. All the positions open to the various competitions to become a teacher will not be filled this year, according to the first results published by the National Education.
If this phenomenon is not new, on the other hand, it is accentuated from year to year and could cause complex situations from the next start of the school year. Several college and high school disciplines are particularly concerned, in particular maths, or German.
This lack of candidates for the various competitions, including the Capes, competition to become secondary school teachers, can be explained relatively simply: it is not that the applicants are not at the level, they are simply not numerous enough. In German, for example, there are fewer eligible candidates only open positions, after the first written tests. In the end, even before the last oral admission tests, 83 are eligible for 215 places available.
Ditto in math: 816 are eligible for 1035 open positions. And it is in this subject, mathematics, that the situation is most critical: we are going to need more teachers, at the start of the next school year with the return of maths in the common core in first class.
The unions, they are much more worried and recall their request for higher wages, in particular, to help make the job more attractive.
Guest of franceinfo, Sophie Vénétitay, secretary general of the SNES-FSU, does not hide her concern: “The urgency, ct is clearly first and foremost a question of salary. It should be remembered that beginner teachers are at 1.1 times the SMIC. It should also be remembered that new teachers are eligible for the activity bonus, which is a mechanism for combating poverty. There is an urgent need to really take strong measures for our starting salaries, but also for the whole career of teachers.
Fewer applicants: does that mean less good teachers? ➡️ “Not necessarily. They will then pass the orals and not all will be admitted. There is great vigilance” on the level of the candidates, assures Sophie Vénétitay, for whom “we must put an end to the D system”. pic.twitter.com/vuSY6Bdai1
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“Today, for a young person who is destined for this profession to be able to tell himself that he will be properly paid and be able to do his job well. This also means working, for example, on working conditions, the number of staff per class…. But today, really, there is an urgency in terms of wages“, she says on franceinfo.
Despite everything, the Ministry of Education, wants to be reassuring: “We had anticipated“, “There is no particular difficulty“, assures the team of Jean-Michel Blanquer.