This competition is intended for teachers of non-holder primary schools who will be able to justify eighteen months of teaching. The unions salute the desire to “deprecate” contract workers, but fear too low training time.
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National education contract workers deserve “recognition” but not at any cost. This is, in essence, what unions think of the “exceptional” competition for primary school contracts, 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 teaching unions during a ministerial technical committee, on October 26. According to projections from the Ministry of National Education, around 1,300 contract workers, out of the three academies, are likely to present themselves to 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, faced with a chronic recruitment problem, will thus be able to offer their contract workers a “simplified” version of the competition for access to the profession of first degree teaching. Indeed, the possibility of presenting yourself to a specific competition, called “second external competition”, already exists for contract workers who can justify three years of seniority and a license diploma (L3). This competition has the same number of events 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 revealed at the start of the 2022 school year, national education decided to facilitate access to tenure in these three academies: according to the unions, this competition will only have two tests (a writing and an oral). The ministry confirms, for its part, that contract workers will be able to claim it if they hold a diploma equivalent to the second year of license (L2).
“The modalities worry us”
Now, this is where the rub: the “second external competition”, usual access route for contract workers who wish to become holders, claims a level higher than that required for this new exceptional competition. “We were not opposed to the creation of this competition, because it is important to offer a tenure to agents who are already at the service of the State, reacts Guislaine David, of the Snuipip-FSU. On the other hand, the modalities we worry, because the ministry brought down the level of recruitment from L3 to L2. “
Others do not see it malice: the academies concerned can, “in an emergency”, having recruited some teachers who had only the L2 level in the years – a decree dating from 2016 provides this exception, rarely applied In fact, says the Ministry of National Education in the world.
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