It was the test of fire for the new Minister of National Education, Pap Ndiaye: the start of the school year. Indeed, if it went well overall, thanks to the massive use of contract teachers, the school is going through multiple crises: shortage of teachers, devaluation of the profession or even deterioration of working conditions.
After a first five-year term which ended with an unprecedented crisis of confidence between teachers and their ex-minister, Emmanuel Macron therefore chose a profile at odds with that of Jean-Michel Blanquer. Historian, civil rights specialist in the United States and thinker on the question of minorities in France, Pap Ndiaye will have the difficult task of restoring a link that had been broken between the Ministry of National Education and teachers.
What are the projects of the new minister? Can a bond of trust be re-established with teachers? Will all students have teachers facing them in class?
In this episode of the “L’Heure du Monde” podcast, Sylvie Lecherbonnier, a journalist specializing in education in Mondeexplains to us how the choice of Pap Ndiaye was symbolic, and controversial, and details the projects that await the minister this year.
An episode by Esther Michon and Cyrielle Bedu. Production and music: Amandine Robillard. Presentation and editor-in-chief: Jean-Guillaume Santi. In this episode: excerpt from Pap Ndiaye’s back-to-school press conference, August 26, 2022, excerpt from an interview with Marine Le Pen by LCI on May 21, 2022, excerpt from the transfer of power between Pap Ndiaye and Jean-Michel Blanquer, May 20, 2022, excerpt from an interview with Emmanuel Macron in Marseille, June 2, 2022, excerpt from an interview with Pap Ndiaye by Brut, aired August 30, 2022.
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