Toulouse: to recruit enough teachers at the start of the school year, the rectorate’s crisis unit is working at full speed
To cope with the lack of qualified teachers in the second degree, the Toulouse academy has activated its crisis unit at full speed since August 16. Headteachers are always looking for teachers.
It’s a commotion at the rectorate of Toulouse which, since August 16, has reactivated its crisis cell, called “cell dedicated to replacement”, with a view to the start of the school year, Thursday, September 1.
“A teacher in front of each class”, recently promised the Minister of National Education Pap Ndiaye, whose visit to Toulouse, the day of the start of the school year for the inauguration of the new Jules-Géraud Saliège school group, is mentioned.
The rectorate cell is not entirely new in Toulouse. Faced with numerous replacement problems and to make up for the 4,000 vacant professorships this year in France, including a certain number in the academy (which does not give the figure), the personnel management teams are hard at work. since the middle of the 2021-2022 school year.
A pool of more than 1,000 contract workers
The Toulouse Academy and its eight departments have around 38,000 secondary school teachers in post, but clearly that is not enough.
Hence the permanent recruitment since last year, in the form of job dating, of contract workers to replace tenured teachers absent for various reasons during the school year.
Fifteen people permanently
“We selected from a pool of a thousand contract workers, explains the director of teaching staff at the rectorate and head of the unit, Frédérique Rufas. It is basically a cell dedicated to replacement which has been permanent since the course of last year. It closed on July 4 and reopened on August 16. At the start, we were eight people, we went up to twelve people in July and since then we are fifteen. These are the administrative managers of the rectorate who respond to the requests of the heads of establishments and make the link with the contractors. »
90 emails per day
Monday, August 21, the switchboard of the cell From a recorded “fifty calls” but manages daily between 80 and 90 emails per day. The requests requested from the heads of establishments (colleges and high schools) of the academy.
“Their requests relate to positions for which they have no one at the start of the school year, continues Frédérique Rufas. There are also requests for substitutes: a teacher who will not be there for four months pregnant, who must be replaced on the first day, or for other reasons. The objective is to give an answer in less than 48 hours. It is often immediate. There are obviously disciplines under tension”.
Disciplines in tension
Mathematics, technology, foreign languages, history-geography are among the most difficult subjects to replace, especially in isolated establishments in the academy, as recognized by the rector Mostafa Fourar.
It is therefore likely that many students will not be completely satisfied at the start of the school year and after. However, the last promises of the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron, who presented his roadmap for education on Thursday August 25, seems to have “relaunched the attractiveness of candidates”, confides the head of the cell. Either in competitions for the certificate of aptitude (Capes) or as a contractor.
The Toulouse Academy will be able to draw from the additional lists of competitions this year and promises to annualize the contract workers, paid twelve months (1,650 euros net) instead of the first ten. “We are receiving new applications”, we dedicate to the cell. Like what, the question of remuneration is not insignificant for candidates for the “most beautiful job in the world”.
At Snes-FSU: “We expect a complicated return to school”
Less than a week before the start of the school year, we do not hide it from the Snes-FSU, the majority union of the second degree. “We are expecting a complicated return to school, even if the rectorate was able to anticipate, notes academic secretary Pierre Priouret. Contract staff recruited last year numbered 1,400, but some of them do not hold full-time positions. 1,400 contract workers represent the equivalent of 900 tenured teaching positions. The activation of the crisis unit is, for the union, the sign “that the rectorate is very worried”. “The results of the dating jobs organized by the rectorate have not given any satisfaction, continue the academic secretary of Snes-FSU. This reflects a very tense situation. We will see the extent of the damage at the end of next week, but we doubt that the minister’s promise to have a teacher in front of each class will be kept.