This is one of the subjects established as a great cause of his five-year term: education. Emmanuel Macron therefore intends to keep control. During a visit to the Blanche primary school, in Paris, this Friday, April 5, the President of the Republic announced the creation of “training licenses for school teachers” and a competition which will now be taken after the license – against currently in a master’s degree – in order to integrate a “professionalizing master’s degree”. “We are going to ramp it up from next year and in fact over two or three years, we are going to systematize it,” said the head of state.
Emmanuel Macron specified that students will be paid from the first year of their master’s degree, as part of their internships. He adds that this reform of the competition does not concern, for the moment, secondary education. Before these announcements, the Head of State spoke with an elementary autism teaching unit class, then visited the academic autism training laboratory, located in this establishment in the 9th arrondissement of Paris.
“We can clearly see that the system was probably not the best”
“This trip is an extension of the course set by the President of the Republic to change the face of our public school,” detailed the Elysée before the visit. “A transformation that he wishes to pursue for a school of demanding knowledge, a school of learning civics and authority and an active school which ensures the well-being and emancipation of everyone.”
Pap Ndiaye’s successor, Gabriel Attal, during his brief visit to rue de Grenelle, launched a consultation last September with trade union organizations on the attractiveness of the teaching profession, putting forward three themes: initial training of teachers, working conditions and career development. This subject of teacher training is recurring: the competitions had already been moved from the first year of the master’s degree to the second by a 2021 reform, and several changes had taken place in this course in previous years.
“We can clearly see that the system that we adopted in recent decades was undoubtedly not the best. Why? Because in fact, it made teachers navigate for five years post-baccalaureate with courses that were diverse and varied”, commented the Head of State. For several years now, National Education has been facing an unprecedented recruitment crisis. 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.