The fate seems sealed for the General Inspectorate of Education, Sport and Research (IGESR). In an email sent, Saturday evening September 25, to its various members, Caroline Pascal, who is the head, announces “The extinction” of this body, as part of the reform of the senior civil service.
It was during his post – “yellow vests” press conference, in April 2019, that Emmanuel Macron announced that he wanted to remove the National School of Administration and the large corps. He took action on April 8, 2021 by confirming his intention. Shortly after, the gradual abolition of the body of prefects and those of the major inspectorates (finance, administration, social affairs) was decided.
Caroline Pascal’s email, revealed this Monday by the site The educational café, and The world obtained, leaves no room for doubt: ” The perimeter [de la réforme] ultimately exceeds the three interministerial GIs, and indeed concerns all the general inspections which are both body and service, and therefore ours ”, can we read there.
Prioritize merit over status
The ambition of the President of the Republic is to make the senior civil service more representative of the population, more open and more flexible. The idea is to emphasize personal merit rather than status. The bodies of the public service constitute, in fact, particular statutes which govern the entire career of the public officials who are members of them. From now on, senior officials will occupy positions (prefect, inspector general, etc.), but it is no longer the specific rules of their body that will apply. These will be those of a single body bringing together all the senior officials: that of State administrators.
Evolution “Would be done from 1er January 2023 ”, writes Caroline Pascal in her email. “I used the conditional because the deadline will perhaps still be a little bit discussed, she explains to World. The inspectors’ service will continue to exist, but with recruitment for a fixed period ”. If there were no more new recruitments, the inspectors already appointed – they are around 250 – would not necessarily have to leave their post: they would have “The choice to stay in [leur] original body or to integrate that of State administrators ”.
A meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, September 28, to discuss the continuation of the site. “Everything is not yet consolidated at this stage”, assures Mme Pascal.
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