General inspection of State education

The General inspection of State education (IGEN) is a body of inspection placed near the French Minister for State education. Its manpower in 2005 is of 159 general inspectors.

History

The IGEN is the heiress of several former services of inspection.

The first of these services is the inpection of the colleges creates by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1802 to supervise teaching in the colleges. In 1833, François Guizot founds an inspection of primary school education, but the latter has only one temporary role.

In 1852, Napoleon III founds by decree an general inspection of the state education which includes/understands:

8 general inspectors for higher education;
6 inspectors for the colleges and the colleges;
2 inspectors for the primary .

Little by little, the number of inspectors increased, in particular because of the increase in the number of establishments of primary and secondary education. On the other hand, to reinforce the autonomy of higher education, the body of the general inspectors of higher education is removed in 1888 but missions of inspection within the establishments of higher education are entrusted to members of the advisory committee of teaching until 1912.

In 1886 is created an general inspection of the nursery schools. Lastly, in 1921 appears the general inspection of technical education.

These various services are then unified under the name of general inspection of State education.

Organization

The IGEN is a body of 160 civils servant approximately directed by a senior. This last is named by decree of the minister in charge for state education for 5 years.

Except those which are named for a mission of total inspection, generally of short duration, each inspector is attached to a permanent or disciplinary group and with one or more academies. Each disciplinary group is directed by a senior.

The senior of the IGEN, the seniors of each group and the correspondents academic constitute the council of the general inspection.

Recruitment

The recruitment of the general inspectors of state education is done among the civils servant of category has titular doctorate (new mode), doctorate of State (old mode) or Accreditation to supervise research, or among the aggregate , or the civils servant having reached the rough index 901. The candidates must moreover justify 10 years of service in the state education including 5 of teaching.

List groups

economy and management
physical education and sporting
artistic lesson and education
primary school education
establishments and school life
history and geography
living languages
letters
mathematical
philosophy
physical sciences and chemical, fundamental and applied
economic scenes and social
sciences and industrial techniques
Life sciences and the Earth

Role of the IGEN

The IGEN has a general mission “of control, study, information, council and evaluation”. The competence of the inspectors is thus very broad.

The IGEN ensures the evaluation of the chiefs of establishments (principal and headmasters), of the professors of higher pulpit and, exceptionally, other teachers and personnel comparable. With regard to the latter, they are the regional teaching inspectors and the inspectors of State education which exert the evaluation, the general inpecteurs intervening to animate the activity of inspection.

The IGEN plays a big role in the development of the School programs, in the examination and the diffusion of the teaching practices. It intervenes in the recruitment and the initial training and continuous of the teachers of the first and the second degree, in particular within IUFM. It can formulate proposals for the services of the minister of education main road. It can, if it is authorized by the minister, exert audit engagements in other ministerial departments or near territorial collectivities.

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