“Re-engage in dialogue” with the unions.
Four days after her appointment as head of the Ministry of National Education, Nicole Belloubet expressed her desire for “appeasement”.
“A certain stability is not useless, stability which does not prevent reforms.
We must appease and reform,” said the new minister this Tuesday on France Inter.
His return to government, at age 68, comes in the middle of a storm after weeks of controversy since the arrival of Amélie Oudéa-Castéra.
Asked about the schooling of her children, the origin of one of the hiccups, the former rector of the Academy indicated that they had studied in the public sector.
The projects ahead are major.
Nicole Belloubet addressed that of “level classes”, the term of which she does not like, at the college announced by Gabriel Attal, during his visit to rue de Grenelle.
6th and 5th grade students will be separated for mathematics and French classes from the start of the school year in September 2024. “What we are thinking about is groups that can meet the specific expectations of the students, and it seems to me that this answer is not uninteresting, indicates Nicole Belloubet.
We have a heterogeneous class and then for the fundamental subjects, mathematics and French, we set up groups to take charge of the students.
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“I want to re-engage in dialogue” with the unions and “a certain stability is not useless,” says Nicole Belloubet, the new Minister of National Education.
“We must appease and reform,” continues the minister.
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Gabriel Attal had announced the creation of teaching positions in middle and high schools at the start of the 2024 school year. “We will have the positions,” promises Nicole Belloubet.
We will do everything “to anticipate” recruitment, she indicates, while the sector is in the grip of a recruitment crisis.
The minister does not commit to salary increases but says “work” on teachers who are in the middle of their career.
“Regulating” digital technology in college
Another spearhead of the current Prime Minister is the issue of school bullying, of which more than one in two students are victims in each class from CE2 to final year.
Traveling to Reims (Marne) this Monday, the minister announced the creation of an “annual barometer” to measure this scourge.
Some 150 “full-time jobs” must be created to coordinate prevention actions in the rectorates.
They will be added to staff already trained and present in schools.
Nicole Belloubet again mentioned this Wednesday the payment of compensation of 1,250 euros to social workers and school nurses, the victims' first contacts.
The “regulation of digital use” in colleges is one of the files on the minister’s desk.
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Nicole Belloubet was Minister of Justice from 2017 to 2020. The former member of the Constitutional Council was questioned about Gérald Darmanin's desire to abolish land law in Mayotte in order to fight against illegal immigration.
She recognizes a “singularity and urgency” in the Indian Ocean island.
“It is not possible to eliminate (
soil rights
) on our national territory,” comments Nicole Belloubet, recognizing an “exception” in the Mahorais territory.
A national tribute will be paid to Robert Badinter, who died on February 9 at the age of 95, this Wednesday at Place Vendôme in Paris, where the Minister of Justice is located.
Nicole Belloubet has a “thought of great admiration for the tenacity” of the former Minister of Justice.
“He is in my personal Pantheon,” she confides.