“The competition will take place at the end of the license”, i.e. currently bac + 3 instead of bac + 5, the head of state declared during a trip to the school in Paris. “Starting next year, we’re going to expand it and actually systematize it within two or three years.” According to Emmanuel Macron, the project of the executive should make it possible to “train much better, prepare better (…) and also better recognize our compatriots who want to pursue this profession.”
A recurring theme
The head of state reflects a reflection started under former minister Papa Ndiaye. Since then, the executive has several times expressed the hypothesis of returning to the bac + 3 competition for future school teachers. During his short visit to rue de Grenelle, Papa Ndiaye’s successor, Gabriel Attal, launched a consultation with trade unions on the attractiveness of the teaching profession last September, proposing three themes: initial teacher training, working conditions and career development.
This teacher training subject is repeated. Competitions have already been moved from the first year of the master’s degree to the second by the 2021 reform, and several changes have taken place in this course in previous years.