A measure to try to respond to the vocations crisis. The Minister of National Education, Pap Ndiaye, wishes to bring back the recruitment competition for teachers to bac +3, followed by two years of “renovated and paid training”, and hopes to do so “in 2025”, he said. announced Thursday. THE school teacher recruitment competition (CRPE) is currently accessible to students in the second year of a master’s degree as well as to people who already hold a master’s degree, i.e. five years after obtaining the baccalaureate.
“I want to place the school teacher competition at bac +3 without giving up the master’s degree. We will offer, after the competition, two years of renewed and remunerated training, ”said the minister in an interview with the newspaper The world. “This will attract more candidates, in particular disadvantaged students, our future ‘black hussars of the Republic'”, added the minister who said he hoped to “implement this reform in 2025”.
More than 1,250 unfilled positions
The minister had already indicated, on several occasions, “to think about the process of selecting future teachers” which “does not necessarily require a competition at bac +5 level”. “We have made progress on this subject”, he underlines Thursday with the World.
National Education is facing a vocations crisis in primary and secondary education. Thus more than 1,250 positions were not filled this year in the external competition for school teachers, according to figures relayed by unions, which warn of the “hemorrhage” in the recruitment of teachers.
In his newspaper interview The worldPap Ndiaye assumes that human resources in national education will in the future be made up of “a body of civil servants to which is added a number of contract agents, trained and often experienced”. “Some choose the contractual route for reasons of career or geographical flexibility. We have to admit it,” he said.