Louise Sallé, with Mélanie Faure 12:20 p.m., March 18, 2022

Emmanuel Macron drew up this Thursday the list of his proposals for his electoral program in the field of education.

The President introduced reforms to raise teachers' salaries and attract more candidates for the job.

Ads that however leave the unions skeptical.

Emmanuel Macron has many ideas for National Education.

The President of the Republic presented this Thursday a battery of measures during the announcement of his electoral program.

First of all, a salary increase, not attractive enough to attract candidates.

Emmanuel Macron promises a raise in exchange for additional assignments, such as replacing work colleagues.

The Education envelope would thus be inflated by 12 billion euros over the five-year term, if the outgoing President is re-elected.

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Second issue, Emmanuel Macron wants to reform vocational high schools in order to target employment needs in each territory.

But also bring local businesses closer to high school students for more effective professional integration.

Third proposal, reform teaching in high school, with more mathematics in the common base.

Because since the reform put in place by Macron in 2019, the number of hours allocated to mathematics has dropped considerably.

According to the Ministry of National Education, in 2018 there were just over 180,000 hours of maths lessons in first and last year, compared to 150,000 in 2020. A drop of 18%.

"The urgency is to revalue the profession in general"

Announcements deplored by Sophie Vénétitay, secretary general of the Snes-FSU: “We see above all a maneuver by Emmanuel Macron to transform the teaching profession, to try to pass certain measures by playing a little wage carrot. today, we know that our professions are poorly paid."

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For Sophie Vénétitay, the priority is elsewhere.

"The urgency is to upgrade them and to upgrade them in general. We know that there is a particular challenge in recruiting more. Today, the profession does not attract. And it is not by increasing the workload, especially from the start of the career, we will attract more people."