Question 11764 — higher education

Summary

Mr. Benjamin Lucas-Lundy draws the attention of the Minister of Higher Education and Research to the financial situation of universities. On August 30, 2023, the Minister announced before the presidents of universities gathered at the France Université congress that “The budget of our ministry, even if increased, will not make it possible to cover all” of the measures on purchasing power, “neither in 2023 nor in 2024”, threatening to draw on university working capital. Indeed, following the announcements by the Minister of Transformation and the Public Service of an overall increase in the index point of public sector agents or even the creation of a degressive bonus called "purchasing power" to preserve the purchasing power of civil servants, the Minister announced that "we will have to look at how to mobilize your unmarked reserves or your available margins, I think about working capital. » These working funds, enriched over the years, are a way for higher institutions to support the attractiveness of research, including internationally in the face of increasingly strong competition, to invest in infrastructure and to set up large-scale projects. Universities representing approximately 20% of the State's real estate assets, this mobilization of working capital does not may impact voluntary projects to renovate establishments in the context of a major energy crisis. He is asking for euro-ready compensation for all the new measures relating to purchasing power, at the risk of continuing to degrade the university ecosystem and penalize establishments in their investment and cash flow efforts, which contribute to the success of students and researchers and to the influence of our higher education; he wants to know the perspectives on this subject.

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