Question 45024 — higher education

Summary

Mr. Cédric Villani alerts the Minister of Higher Education, Research and Innovation on the development of “junior professorships”, a new route to access the body of university professors created by article 4 of the research programming law of December 24, 2020. It is clear that the few safeguards provided for during the discussions of the law were purely and simply removed in the implementing decree of December 17, 2021. In order to be able to use this recruitment route rather than recruitment through traditional routes (competitions, promotions, secondments or integrations), it was mainly a question of proving the “specific” nature of the need; on the other hand to justify a “necessity”, which should limit their use to “rare disciplines where we have difficulty retaining even our doctoral students, recruited abroad before completing their doctorate,” in the words of the Minister. The circulars of June 23, 2021 and January 5, 2022 relating to the “establishment of junior professorships” have definitively buried these supervision conditions. The MP wishes to remind the Minister of the dangers that widespread recourse to this type of recruitment would raise and that the safeguards, already minimal, decided by the national representation during the debates on the research programming law, had been adopted to prevent these dangers. Without dwelling on the obvious democratic denial which constitutes the fact of diverting the spirit of the laws via regulatory acts, the MP underlines that the generalization of junior professorships would pose a threat to the balance of the university recruitment system, in a moment of great fragility and exhaustion of teams. He wants to know his position on the subject.

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