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Higher costs, lower results, reduced teaching time, difficult conditions ... A report from the Court of Auditors, published on December 10, points to the failures of the school system in the five overseas academies (Martinique, Guadeloupe, Reunion , Guyana and Mayotte).

Carried out for the Senate Finance Committee, this survey highlights the specificities of overseas academies: remoteness from the metropolis, climate, relief or archipelagic configuration, defective public facilities, high poverty and unemployment rates, etc.

Considerable differences with the metropolis

"Education is provided in more difficult conditions than in metropolitan France", notes the report published Thursday, December 10, with a "low rate of replacement of teacher absences", and "shorter teaching time", " although the ministry does not have a precise count ”.

He points out that the rates of access to the patent and the bac "have improved", but that "the level assessments show considerable differences".

21.5% of students entering 6th year in Reunion have an insufficient or fragile command of French, 25% in Martinique, 28.7% in Guadeloupe, 44.2% in Guyana and 75.4% in Mayotte, against 13.3% nationally.

The priority education system in question

The Court nonetheless notes an annual cost per overseas pupil “approximately 30% higher than the national average”, due to the “over-remuneration” of civil servants overseas, and the extension of the priority education system “ to about half of the territory in Martinique and Reunion and almost all of Mayotte and Guyana ”.

However, "the means of national education are not adjusted to the needs", she notes.

Priority education "no longer seems the appropriate tool", especially in Mayotte and Guyana where "heavy constraints (lack of trainers, distances, teacher rotation, etc.) annihilate its positive aspects".

The Court wishes to leave more room for rectors.

She also calls on the ministry, "as it is doing for the derogatory competitions for teachers in Mayotte today and in Guyana tomorrow, to relax the rules of recruitment".

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