“Over 900 Primary Education Positions Unfilled in Créteil, Versailles, and Guyana Academies: Concerns for the Start of the School Year”

As we already know, positions may not be filled in primary education, especially in the academies of Créteil, Versailles and Guyana.

The figures compiled by the first primary school union show that 966 positions will not be filled at the end of the CRPE competition (to become a school teacher) in these three academies.

For the primary, 11,371 candidates are eligible for 8,000 positions across France, according to data released on Saturday. Only the department of Mayotte is still awaiting results.

“The ratio of eligible to the number of positions to be filled is very low (1.42 on average) which means that there will not be enough people on the additional lists in several academies”, regrets Guislaine David , general secretary of Snuipp-FSU, the first primary school union.

In some academies, where the number of eligible is lower than the number of positions, “we already know that there will be problems at the start of the school year,” she adds.

In the Créteil academy, for example, only 737 candidates are eligible for 1,166 positions. After a historic crisis at the start of the 2023 school year, the rectorate of Créteil announced on Friday the recruitment of 500 new contract teachers from June. Joined on Saturday, he did not wish to comment on the results of eligibility for the competitions, waiting for “the end of all the competitions” to speak on this subject.

4000 unfilled positions last year

Last year, concerning both primary and secondary education, more than 4,000 positions had not been filled following the teacher recruitment competitions. This had led the Ministry of Education to resort to an increased number of contract workers, who had often only benefited from a few days of training at the end of August before the start of the school year.

“In 2022, believes Ms. David, there was a delay in the transition from the CRPE to Master 2 (instead of Master 1) which could explain this record, but there the pool of students was reconstituted and yet the number of candidates don’t go up.”

“The shock of attractiveness wanted by the ministry did not take place”, she notes, denouncing degraded working conditions and inequalities in living conditions according to the academies, which causes “a disaffection for this profession worrying for the long term”.

According AEF, press agency specializing in educationthe Capes, the competition for secondary school teachers, is also affected to a lesser extent, with, according to its calculations, 191 unfilled positions at the end of the eligibility tests at the national level, in German and classics.