LANGUAGE TEACHERS UNITE

Anyway, that may not be ideal and is a long shot. Let's start with home - where we work and the conditions.

Pay depends on the category of school (a 1956 law, I think, can check) and the type of post for the vacataire. For instance, the ENST, Chimie Paris, and ESC Toulouse don't have identical offers. I don't know if this is true for universities and whether there is one rate for Paris and another for la Province, but the rate is also sometimes indexed as CAPES-level or AGREG-level. We'd need that info. I will try to post what I know for sure when checked. Also, for the Grandes Ecoles, they all fall under different Ministries, so different rules and rates apply. This is why harmonisation is so tricky.

Vacataires need to share their experiences, so how about creating a page for each school or university with basic info e.g.:

Rates of pay

Status of worker ("cadre" or not)

Time taken to be paid

Type of contract (or none)

Criteria for being hired (requirement of a main employer)

Access to teaching facilities (e.g. cassette or CD players, multimedia labs, projectors etc)

Access to other facilities/Integration into the institution (Canteens, toilets, membership of coffee clubs etc)

If we have a page for every institution, they can be updated as situations change. My only reservation would be how to stop people writing wonderful things about their own school!

note from Vera:

This Wiki looks very user-friendly. Well done! I like the idea of structuring the communication from the start. I'm meeting Michael Ashworth today to start working on the TESOL event "The Great debate" which is basically about hiring criteria leading to permanent jobs and the lack of the latter in the face of permanent recurring and programmed needs! I'd like to help without putting my own job on the line, so great skill is required in handling this issue. As many Univeristies and Grandes Ecoles are grouping together in bodies calles "PRES" (Pôle de Recherche et d'Enseignement Supérieur), this could be a direction to go in for the PRES to create a structure allowing for people to work on a contract basis between different members of a geographically-grouped PRES.