Nationally educated contract workers deserve “recognition” but not at any price. This is, in essence, what the unions think of the “exceptional” competition for primary school contract workers, open from 2023 and until 2026 (for four sessions in all) in the academies of Guyana, Créteil and Versailles. A draft decree defining the contours of this new competition was presented to the teachers’ unions during a ministerial technical commission on 26 October. According to projections by the Ministry of National Education, about 1,300 contract workers from the three academies are expected to take the tests in 2023. The ministry plans to open 370 places, including 200 in Créteil, 120 in Versailles and 50 in Guyana.
These three academies, struggling with a chronic recruitment problem, will thus be able to offer their employees a “simplified” version of the competition for access to the profession of primary school teacher. In fact, there is already the possibility of participating in a special competition, called the “second external competition”, for contract employees who can demonstrate three years of service and a degree (L3). This competition includes the same number of tests as the classic competition, the “external competition”, to which students present themselves at the end of the master 2.
But, faced with the urgency of the recruitment problem that emerged at the beginning of the 2022 school year, the national school system has decided to make access to the professorship in these three academies a little easier: according to the trade unions, this competition it will include only two tests (one written and one oral). For its part, the ministry confirms that contract workers can apply for it if they have a diploma equivalent to the second year of license (L2).
“Terms worry us”
But this is where the shoe pinches: the “second external competition”, the usual way of access for contract workers who want to become owners, requires a level higher than that required for this new exceptional competition. “We have not opposed the creation of this competition, because it is important to offer positions to agents who are already in the service of the statereacts Guislaine David, of SNUipp-FSU. On the other hand, the modalities worry us, because the ministry has lowered the level of hiring from L3 to L2. “
Others see nothing wrong with it: interested academies can, “urgently”, having hired some teachers who in previous years had only L2 level – a 2016 decree provides for this exception, rarely applied in practice, says the Ministry of National Education at the Monde.
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