The words “crisis” and “university” form a united couple for decades, whose alloy could not be started by the countless stands published by a strong community in pen.
However, as enduring as it may be, the university – as in particular the hospital and the justice – is nonetheless subject to the risk of burn -out which you never really know when and how it will happen. For the Faculty of Law and Political Science of Nantes (Loire-Atlantique), it is today.
The rupture was materialized by an alert for serious and imminent danger concerning the health of the personnel, sent on December 3, 2021 to the hygiene, safety and working conditions committee ( Chsct ) of Nantes-uliversité. The dangerous exhaustion of the personnel of the faculty was uncovered in a report which made it possible to identify the causes and consequences of a model of public university service “low cost”, abused for its users and its agents, so teachers- Researchers than administrative and technical personal.
Rarefaction of means
This suffering at work has its source in a crying and aggravated under-statement in recent years by a continuous scarcity of means, despite the assignment of ever more time-consuming missions. While the supervision rate for 100 students (including teacher-researchers and holding administrative and technical agents) is evaluated in 2021 at 8.2 for all French universities and 6 for universities in law-management-management, What is already notoriously insufficient, it is established for the Faculty of Law of Nantes at 3.2.
This figure alone should by itself alarm all of the supervisory authorities, but it is not. On the contrary, they strive to assign to its few agents always more new tasks.
Even though they are mostly already forced to multiply the additional hours to compensate for the lack of staff, additional charges emerge each year: more benevolent such as setting up improvement advice or individual interviews everything By “developing a competence approach”, to the most incongruous as to introduce selection while having to accommodate, under the scrupulous control of the rectorate, the greatest number.
If it was necessary to give up what the 80 teachers of the faculty individually follow several thousand students, it was not possible on the other hand to escape the injunctions of the selection, so that it It was necessary to deal with 7,000 candidates for Parcoursup and more than 15,000 for integration in Master. Everyone can calculate the number of hours necessary for the processing of 22,000 files, even in an expeditious manner.
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