Question 20820 — overseas

Summary

Mr. Jean-Philippe Nilor draws the attention of the Minister of Higher Education, Research and Innovation to the University of the West Indies. On June 16, 2015, on the occasion of the final reading of Law No. 2015-737 transforming the UAG into a UA, he spoke in the Chamber to regret the rejection of the proposal for a “three-way ticket”, that is to say the election on a common list of the president of the University of Antilles and vice-presidents of each of the Martinique-Guadeloupe poles. He defended the idea that only this method of election could guarantee strategic coherence, the autonomy of the centers and the unity of this establishment whose configuration is unique in the French university landscape. Five years later, it is clear that there are governance difficulties which endanger the stability of the AU governed by law and statutes whose provisions and spirit are regularly flouted deserve to be clarified. Several examples illustrate this situation: non-recognition of the status of secondary authorizing officer of pole vice-president, recruitment of management staff attached to the vice-presidency of the Martinique pole without consultation, budgetary dialogue established by the presidency directly with the components of the pole. In addition, the training offer of the AU discussed in Paris with the ministry without any pole representative despite requests made to this effect in Martinique raised, if not incomprehension, suspicion, especially since non-accredited training for the Martinique pole had obtained a favorable opinion from the High Council for Research Evaluation. Moreover, nearly 400 students had already enrolled in these fundamental training courses in July 2018, an extremely positive point because the attractiveness of the university is essential given the demographic problem of the territory (decline in the birth rate, departure of young people). In response to the joint letter signed on July 6, 2018 by three parliamentarians questioning it on this point, the Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation explained the non-opening of certain training courses by “resources insufficient human resources. However, the president of the University of the Antilles has precisely undertaken to rebalance resources for the benefit of the Guadeloupe center, having more training and students, relying in particular on article L. 781-2 of the education code. This has resulted this year in a significant drop in the allocation allocated to the Martinique center and should ultimately result in the transfer of 7 million payroll to Pôle Guadeloupe. It is therefore the balance of the establishment which could be threatened. However, it is obvious that the unity of the establishment in a global context of grouping of much larger universities is the only real viable option, like the Caribbean University of the West Indies. He asks him if he is in favor, in order to preserve this unity of the University of the West Indies to which he says he is resolutely attached to the evolution of the mode of governance and the granting of the means allowing each of the university centers of Guadeloupe and Martinique to consolidate and develop harmoniously and not to the detriment of one another.

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