Aggregation of philosophy

The contest of aggregation of Philosophie is a public contest French ministry of State education intended to recruit qualified schoolteachers of the Secondary education, which will firstly teach in the colleges of mainstream education and technological, in the sections of high-level techniciens (STS) and the preparatory classes than the universities (CPGE). It is also about a sesame become almost essential to be able to claim, after the doctorate, at a station of Teacher-researcher in the higher education.

There exist actually two contests of the aggregation of philosophy:

an external contest, opened to the holders of the control (or a diploma of equal or higher level), like to the full-time teaching staff of the Capes;

an internal competition, opened to the civils servant and public agents exerting for at least five years, and being able to justify control or of a diploma or has titrated equal or higher level. The tests of the internal competition differ appreciably from those of the external contest.

Tests

The external contests and intern of the aggregation of philosophy are composed of two groups of tests: written tests of admissibility and oral tests of admission.

External aggregation

Written tests of admissibility :

Composition of philosophy (except program)
Composition of philosophy (concept, couple or group of concepts)
Comment of text (history of philosophy, 2 authors)

Oral tests of admission :

Lesson (two subjects with the choice). Program: philosophy general, moral, political, logical and epistemology, esthetics, social sciences. Without access to the resources of libraries.
Lesson (two subjects with the choice). Program: philosophy general, moral, political, logical and epistemology, esthetics, social sciences. With access to the resources of libraries.
Explanation of text (in) French. Annual program (2 works).
Translation and explanation of text (Latin, Greek, English, German, Arab, Italian), with the assistance of a dictionary Bi or unilingual. Annual program (1 work).

Internal aggregation

Written tests of admissibility:

Explanation of text (two subjects with the choice). Notion (annual) of the program of the final classes.
Essay. Notion (annual) of the program of the final classes.

Oral tests of admission:
They are distinguished clearly from the oral tests of the external contest, very university, by their teaching dimension, the candidates being supposed to have already taught.

Lesson. Program final classes.
Explanation of text (in) French (two subjects with the choice) (maintenance).

Course of a session

Preparation

The preparation of the contests of aggregation concerns the monopoly of the universities, as well as national universities. The IUFM, which deliver the lesson for the contests of the Capes and the Caplp of philosophy, do not intervene in the preparation with aggregation. However, the services of continuing education of the personnel of different the vice-chancellorships from academy can organize for their personnel, of the education acts intended to prepare internal aggregation.

The courses intended to prepare with the tests are organized in the establishments according to the program, which is published in the official bulletin of state education spring preceding the session. They take place from September to March or April, date traditional of the written tests of the internal competition and the external contest, respectively. The acceptable candidates continue their formation until the behavior of the oral tests of admission, which have in June place and July.

Once the known results, the prizes winner are affected in secondary education in the capacity as trainees, for one one year duration before establishment. Aggregation makes it moreover possible for the prizes winner to request a carryforward of training course from one to three years, in order to prepare a thesis of doctorate.

The jury

Because of the academic quality of contest of the aggregation, whose preparation concerns the monopoly of the universities (and also of ENS), the jury is always chaired by a Professor of the universities, specialist in the discipline, and is named for four years by the Minister for State education. The president selects the members of the jury thereafter, within the bodies of university lecturers and professors of the universities. He also calls upon qualified schoolteachers of secondary education (often teaching in CPGE), like with personnel of the bodies of inspection (General inspectors and IA-IPR). Among about thirty members whom account generally the jury, the president designates a vice-president as well as a secretary, which composes with him the directory of the contest. The composition of the jury takes effect as from the validation of this one by the ministry.

The role of the jury is charged:

to work out the program of each session, in dialog with the jury of the Capes of philosophy (contest whose program takes again partially the questions of aggregation). The program of a session is established one year, then officialized before as from its publication with the official Bulletin of State education (BOEN). The questions are proposed by university lecturers, then selected by the jury;
to carry out the development of the subjects of the written tests of admissibility and the oral tests of admission;
to correct the copies of the written tests of admissibility, according to a scale which the jury establishes itself. Each duty is corrected by two correctors, which justifies the absence of annotation and remarks on the copy: a corrector not having to influence the other;
to fix the bar of admissibility (minimal average note required in order to be able to be authorized to undergo the oral tests of admission) and to declare acceptable or not the candidates at the conclusion of the written tests;
to proceed to the interrogations, by commissions of three inspectors, at the time of the oral tests of admission;
to fix the bar of admission (minimal average note required in order to be able to be declared allowed; if the jury considers insufficient the level of the candidates acceptable, it can decide to provide only part of the stations offered to the contest) and to declare allowed the candidates, by drawing up a list of admission, on the basis of classification to the merit.
La list of the allowed candidates enjoys a fully official nature however only after the visa of the Minister for State education (or of one of its representatives) and public posting with the seat of the central administration in Paris. In addition, the minister can pronounce the radiation of the list of admission, and thus the loss of the benefit of the contest, of a candidate who, during control a posteriori of the supporting documents for the access to the body of the qualified schoolteachers (conditions of diplomas, obligations taking into consideration national service, police records,…) would not fill the requirements with the glance of the regulation.

The jury being a body independent of the authority which indicated it (in this case, the Minister for State education), his appreciation cannot be submitted to the arbitration of a third. Under the terms of the principle of sovereignty of the jurys, the jury is not held to justify his notes and deliberations. Its decisions are not likely of call, except failure with the regulation which governs its activity. Its members are in addition held with the secrecy of the deliberations (as well concerning the debates, as the results as long as those were not the subject of an official publicity).

Sources

the official Bulletin of State education for the programs, the composition of the jurys,…
Reports/ratios of the jurys on the site of the Minister of education main road
Guide of SIAC2: conditions of inscription and nature of the tests

Internal bonds

Aggregation
CAPES
Contest of teaching
Professor
Education system French
Minister of education main road
Ministry for Higher education and Research

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