#MENH2609427AFrance Updates Internship, Evaluation and Tenure Rules for Trainee Secondary Education Staff
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This order updates the rules for trainee teachers and education staff in France’s public secondary education system from the 2026 competition session. It aligns the 2014 framework with the new 2026 initial training rules and fixes a wording error. The practical changes concern evaluation and tenure. Trainees who miss a jury interview without a valid reason lose the benefit of that interview, and the jury will decide based on existing written assessments. Interviews and jury deliberations may also be held by phone or video. Trainees who are otherwise ready for tenure but still lack the required master’s degree or equivalent qualification will have their internship extended by one year, with tenure granted only if they obtain the required qualification by the end of that extension.
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Key Changes
- Updates references in the 2014 trainee staff rules to align them with the new 2026 initial training framework.
- Allows jury interviews and deliberations to be held by phone or video conference, and treats unjustified absence from an interview as a waiver of that interview.
- Extends the internship by one year for eligible external competition winners who still lack the required master’s degree or equivalent qualification.
Obligations
What this law requires
Trainee teachers and education staff who are required to attend a jury interview must attend the interview or provide a duly justified reason for absence; otherwise they are deemed to have waived the benefit of the interview.
Where a trainee does not attend the jury interview without a duly justified reason, the jury must decide on the trainee’s evaluation based only on the written assessments provided under Article 5 of the 2014 order.
The jury president may organize interview sessions by telephone or audiovisual conference when the trainee submits a motivated request, under the conditions applicable to remote deliberations of collegial administrative bodies.
The jury president may organize jury deliberation sessions by telephone or audiovisual conference under the conditions applicable to remote deliberations of collegial administrative bodies.
The rector must extend the internship by one year for external competition laureates who are fit for tenure but, at the end of the internship, do not yet hold the required master’s degree or equivalent qualification recognized by the education minister.