Competitions of teachers. a number of candidates are slightly more than last year, Pap Ndiaye declares

The number of contenders for teacher competitions, whose registrations closed on Friday, will be slightly higher than last year, but without “enough“The Minister of National Education said on Sunday.

Due to the lack of candidates, the Ministry has extended the admission for the first and second levels (primary and secondary education) by two weeks. “We don’t have the numbers yet, but will be slightly higher than last year without meeting that.– said Pope Ndiaye, who was interviewed by Radio J.

Teacher competitions are far from complete. More than 4,000 jobs were unfilled at the end of last July, prompting the education ministry to turn to the addition of contract workers, who were sometimes less trained than incumbents. “We’re not going to change things with a wave of a magic wand, it takes time“, the Minister of Education admitted. “It is clear that the start of the 2023 academic year will not be spectacularly different from the 2022 academic year.“, he added.

“Upgrading through wages first, but not only”

“It is a long-term effort that we are carrying out to devalue, first of all wages, but not onlyPap Ndiaye said again. This reassessment is the subject of a consultation initiated in October.

Apart from the salary or the conditions of the profession, one of the ways that the minister is interested in are the methods of teacher training and recruitment.

However, teacher competitions have just been moved from the first year of the master’s degree to the second with the reform of 2021, after several changes in the course of studies in recent years.

As with the entire civil service, the percentage of those who registered for tenders and did not turn up on D-Day”.can be highsaid Pope Ndiaye. he”may exceed 50%“Especially of the first degree, according to the minister.