The President of the Republic confirmed on Friday a reform concerning access to the profession, accessible from the end of the license, with the establishment of professional masters.
Traveling Friday April 5, from a school in 9e district of Paris, Emmanuel Macron detailed the new reform in favor of National Education, on teacher training, mathematics teaching methods, and finally the budget envelope.
Advanced teaching competitions
From 2025, future teachers will no longer take the competitive exams at bac+5 but at bac+3. The objective: to make the profession more attractive to remedy a teacher recruitment crisis. National Education has been facing an unprecedented crisis for several years. The start of the September 2023 school year was once again under pressure with more than 3,100 positions unfilled in the spring 2023 teaching competitions.
Licenses specific to the teaching profession will thus be put in place in universities. Professional licenses to prepare for school teaching will be implemented as part of post-baccalaureate training. The lessons will focus in particular on French, mathematics and history-geography, as well as “innovative” teaching techniques, indicated the Head of State.
“Professional” masters with remuneration from the first year
Work-study training during the two years of the master’s degree will be paid (between 1,400 euros net the first year and 1,800 euros net the second year) will be offered. We must “recognize our compatriots who want to engage in this essential profession – transmit knowledge to our children, teach them critical thinking, give them confidence – and therefore remunerate them from the first year of their master’s degree”, explained Emmanuel Macron . An operation which must be generalized from the next school year.