NATIONAL EDUCATION REFORM. During a speech this Thursday, August 25, 2022, Emmanuel Macron made several announcements concerning the reform of National Education. In particular, an increase in the salaries of teachers has been unveiled. The details.
For him, she “is no longer up to it.” “The school of the French Republic is not up to the task” declared Emmanuel Macron, Thursday August 25, 2022, during a speech delivered on the sidelines of the back-to-school meeting of academy rectors. Organized at the Sorbonne, this event was an opportunity for the Head of State to make several announcements with a view to changing the education system, regretting “unhappy” students, “disillusioned” teachers but also parents of “worried” students. Five months after his campaign speech in Aubervilliers (Seine-Saint-Denis) during which he then promised “a new pact” with teachers, Emmanuel Macron therefore unveiled new measures to try to counter what “does not work in our collective organization” and to ensure that “our children flourish at school, that it allows them all to choose their destiny, to find a job that meets their desires and their talents, the needs of our society and the challenges of the century.”
Increased salaries for teachers
Main project of national education: the recruitment of teachers. Faced with a real vocational crisis, Emmanuel Macron announced an increase in the salaries of teachers. None will start their career below 2000 euros net per month affirmed the President of the Republic. Other salary developments have also been unveiled, based on “additional missions.” Thus, individualized follow-up, supervision or even carrying out “actions that make sense” may be the subject of additional remuneration.
If he wishes to revive the desire to become a teacher, Emmanuel Macron also intends to review training, even if it means lowering the level of diploma required at the start, as he stated: “it is clear that we must rethink training of our teachers. We asked for excessive university degrees. We have to assume that people get involved in this profession from the baccalaureate, in this beautiful profession.”
Back to high school math
While they had been removed by the former Minister of National Education of Emmanuel Macron, Jean-Michel Blanquer, mathematics will finally do their thing back to the common trunk in high school. The Head of State announced their “strengthening” in order to “support fundamental knowledge.” The Elysée resident had already made announcements to this effect in March, noting the drop in the number of students who choose mathematics as an option.
500 million euros for educational projects
He had already announced it: Emmanuel Macron wants to give more freedom to schools. A promise reiterated this Thursday. “We will not transform the school by yet another curriculum reform, nor simply by more means. We need to change, both in philosophy and in practices”, he declared, before detailing his thoughts: “the he school must above all be carried by its teachers, on those who make it live on a daily basis, and not only on methods that are too uniform, too imposed from above. Thus, the President of the Republic intends to allow establishments to carry out projects, individually. To do this, a pedagogical innovation fund of 500 million euros will be put in place so that it is “disbursed as quickly as possible”, even if he is aware that not all the establishments will benefit from it: “there are projects which will not work, schools which will not want make projects, projects that will fail: it does not matter at all.”