When The 60 000 Positions of The Candidate Holland Become a Headache
The equation is that François Hollande laying September 9. Against all odds, the candidate for the primary, a week of high school year and subsequent meetings with teachers who are tired, surprise by announcing that he will restore the deleted positions in education since 2007.
Tuesday, October 25, the case is complicated. The former Minister Michel Sapin adds a constraint stating that the re-creation of 60,000 jobs will be “offset by declines in jobs elsewhere.” In good budget, he had the idea “to stabilize the payroll of the state in the state budget.”
This leads to study the feasibility of the equation: how to increase by 60,000 the number of teachers without increasing either the total number of employees or payroll of the state? A mathematical-problem policy that does not happen by itself.
What seems impossible: The second part of the proposed tree leaves more than doubtful. The PS will come there to work on payroll constant? A small detour to what happened at the Ministry of Education in recent years sheds light on the debate. Even consistently reducing the number of positions in education, salary costs have increased between 2006 and 2010 from 945 million euros Continue reading
Primary Socialist What do They Think of The University?
A few days before the first round of the Socialist primary, Sunday, October 9, how are the six candidates from the major issues in higher education? Journalist Michel Leroy, author of an investigation into the “big bang” of universities, asked the same eight questions to the candidates, he and five responded. Ségolène Royal has not only provided answers. It addresses some college, but made education one of its priorities. You can find the questionnaires on the blog Universitas.
Among the advisers “superior” candidates, there are many familiar faces.
Arnaud Montebourg is assisted by Bertrand Monthubert, the national secretary of the PS sector.
Martine Aubry is by many academics that Vincent Berger, president of Paris-Diderot, and Isabelle This-Saint-Jean, Vice President of the Ile-de-France in charge of higher education.
François Hollande himself is advised by members Fioraso Geneviève and Jean-Yves Le Déaut, research, and by Lionel Collet, the former president of Lyon-I and the Conference of University Presidents, the higher . Continue reading