Education

#2025-352Decree No. 2025-352 Modifying Recruitment and Training Conditions for Teaching Staff in France

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🇬🇧 English

This law modifies the recruitment and training conditions for teaching staff in France, establishing new standards for their initial formation and professional development. It includes provisions for professional internships in private educational establishments, extending training durations for candidates without relevant qualifications, and stipulates conditions under which trainees can progress to permanent positions. The new regulations emphasize the importance of mentorship and prior educational backgrounds in tailoring the training process.

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Key Changes

  • Implementation of a two-year training period for candidates with no relevant qualifications.
  • Introduction of professional internships in contracted private educational institutions.
  • Modification of the criteria for trainees to progress to permanent positions or be dismissed based on their performance.

Obligations

What this law requires

high

Establish initial teacher training programs through higher education institutions that include professional internship periods in private contracted educational establishments (first degree), organized according to state-defined guidelines, with mandatory mentorship accompanying the training.

Higher education institutions and education ministries
operational
high

Implement a two-year training duration for external exam candidates who hold the required degree/diploma but have not completed a first year of master's level formation, with initial one-year appointment as 'élève' (trainee) followed by one-year practical stage.

Academic directors and education authorities
operational
high

Assess 'manifeste insuffisance' (manifest insufficiency) of trainees through the training supervisor (regarding capacity to follow second-year coursework) or academic director (regarding aptitude to teach students), and determine extensions or termination of trainee status.

Training supervisors and academic directors of education services
operational
high

Dismiss trainees who are not promoted to permanent status after their trainee period by decision of the academic director (acting on rector's delegation), with reinstatement to previous employment status if they held contractor/agreed master or civil servant positions.

Academic directors of education services
operational
high

Require external exam winners to hold a master's degree or recognized equivalent diploma to obtain permanent contracts; if deemed apt but lacking this qualification, extend their stage period by one additional year with opportunity to obtain permanent status upon diploma acquisition.

Academic directors and education authorities
licensing

Affected Parties

Newly recruited teaching staffEducational institutions in France+1 more…

Tags

education reform,teacher training,employment conditions