The Staps branch (Sciences and techniques of physical and sporting activities) deplores the fact of having more and more students without human resources following.
The teaching conditions are also strongly criticized by the students: the lecture halls are overcrowded, the tutorials sometimes accommodate 60 students, and some exams take place in gymnasiums ...
This Wednesday, it was anger that brought them together.
The students of Staps (Sciences and techniques of physical and sporting activities) met in front of the rectorates.
Some even made the trip to Paris to meet in front of the Assembly to challenge the Prime Minister and the Minister of Higher Education, Frédérique Vidal.
A few months ago, the Rennes 2 Staps UFR set fire to the powder by mobilizing and delaying its return.
In question: the lack of means to properly supervise the students.
The protest movement then snowballed in other universities.
Example in Chambéry, where the director of the Staps component resigned at the start of the school year to show the impossibility of continuing his mission properly.
A sector in tension for years
It is first and foremost the lack of teachers that is the problem. As the former Minister of Sports and current Member of Parliament for Seine-Saint-Denis Marie-George Buffet recalled in a letter addressed to Jean Castex on November 17, consulted by
20 Minutes
: “In ten years, the number of Staps students has increased by 100%, but the number of teachers only by 30%, ”she laments. It must be said that the Staps sector is a victim of its success, because it is the third most requested license on Parcoursup, with more than 180,000 wishes registered on the platform in 2021. Even if, in the end, only one in ten applicants is accepted in the sector, for lack of sufficient places.
“Out of 51 Staps components in France, ten have a particularly low supervision rate: this is the case of Amiens, where there is one teacher for 70 students;
Valenciennes, one for 60;
Rouen and Paris XIII, one for 50… While the average for other training courses is one teacher for 20 students, ”explains Pascal Anger, national secretary of Snesup-FSU.
"Some courses are only given thanks to the recruitment of temporary staff"
“Teachers are working a staggering overtime rate and some courses are neutralized because there are no teachers, such as IT or English. This weakens the diploma ", estimates Anne Roger, secretary general of Snesup-FSU and teacher at UFR Staps in Lyon 1." Some courses are only given thanks to the recruitment of temporary staff. There is a break in equality ”, adds Frédérique Roux, teacher at UFR Staps Rennes 2.
Teaching conditions are also strongly criticized. Timothée Brun, M2 student in Nantes and president of the student association Anestaps, describes the “deep discomfort and the feeling of neglect of the students”. In many universities, the lecture halls are overcrowded, the tutorials sometimes accommodate 60 students. “Our schedules are not adapted and the lessons are badly distributed during the day. We are witnessing ubiquitous situations, such as rugby lessons given in the corridors, exams that take place in gymnasiums. And students sometimes have to take their car to access sports equipment because there is none near the university, ”describes Timothée Brun. For lack of sufficient classrooms, "we sometimes find ourselves teaching in prefabricated buildings", also testifies Séverine Delbosq,teacher at UFR Staps in Paris XIII.
"We leave the door open to private schools"
A situation which encourages competition.
"We are leaving the door open to private schools not backed by research and which offer training not always recognized by the State", declares Frédérique Roux, teacher at UFR Staps Rennes 2. What the university teams deplore, d 'as far as the professional integration rate of Staps graduates is good.
And that the context is promising.
"Because France is in the process of organizing the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris and it will need managers in the field of sport", underlines the teacher.
However, in 2017, a working group was set up by the Ministry of Higher Education, concluding that it was necessary to reinject 100 million euros in the sector and create 1,000 jobs over ten years. “In the end, 17 million were paid to universities in 2018. But only 50% of the amount was redistributed to the Staps components”, underlines Pascal Angers. This prompts Marie-George Buffet to ask Jean Castex "for a multi-year recruitment plan for 1,000 full professors in Staps, a massive investment plan for the renovation and construction of new equipment ..." While ensuring that these credits "Go well entirely to UFR Staps".
Requests to which Snesup-Fsu subscribes, which estimates that there should be a hundred jobs urgently by the next school year.
Contacted by 20
Minutes
, the Ministry of Higher Education indicates that the UFR Staps in difficulty must "report their projects within the framework of the strategic and management dialogue which takes place each year, during this period, between the establishments and the rectors. .
An additional envelope has been provided to take this particular situation into account ”.
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