To take only one example include the case of Esther Duflo

Economists are not expressed until today on the evolution of our system of higher education and research; even if evidence necessary for the vast majority of them:

We have accumulated much delay in the last quarter of century for all of our academic devices in terms both of the investments made to the reorganization of structures. The result translates mechanically by a weakening of our potential growth.

The level of academic compares in terms both of scientific quality and motivation than our main competitors, but physical and organizational systems operating conditions are inadequate, incoherent, scattered and very inadequately funded.

All this takes a very special significance at the time when our country is facing serious macroeconomic difficulties. Must therefore be, closer to the research, the University and schools. The movement was launched with its qualities and its shortcomings. Nothing would be worse than to stop it.

Since 1 January, 20 85 universities in our country are autonomous: they assume a strategy for training and research with overall control of their budget. The Act of August 10, 2007 already offers to all the possibility of a policy consistent with their project recruitment, forge genuine partnerships with the socio-economic world by integrating business in the boards of Directors and by creating foundations that will be strong support of this policy. Autonomy and the new freedom won are the guarantee of a greater reactivity and therefore greater efficiency in their double mission of production and transmission of knowledge. Regularly evaluated research teams relied quality training, the desire to better focus and insert their students: this is the necessary conditions so that French universities are successful. With the responsibilities and freedoms of the universities Act, these conditions are met around the French teacher-researchers, among the most qualified and best in the world. To take only one example, include the case of Esther Duflo. This specialist of the fight against poverty has to make his inaugural lecture at the College of France after nine years in Boston at the MIT. It embodies a generation of young brilliant economists, all over the world, pertaining to the quality of the French school of economics. It is critical that high level, such as it, scientists may have wanted to teach in France.

To do this, we need to make the teacher-researcher profession more attractive and enable excellence in academics to speak more freely in our universities. Teachers-researchers must be able to fully participate in a project which radiates internationally and teach in better conditions. As of 2004, the States General of the research had concluded on the need to allow shocks of teaching for the free time to research and the importance to develop more open and more regularly assessed careers teachers-researchers taking better account of the complexity of their business. Or amendment of the Decree of 1984 regulating their status, today by the Government, is among them protests and concerns. Initially presented text elaborated probably not enough independence and the academic identity of academics, it is not guaranteed an absolutely independent national evaluation and fair, he did was not enough the collegiality of the decisions. It must therefore incorporate the requirement of flexibility and transparency that universities today need to conduct a real policy of their human resources management. Will be then surveys the misconceptions and misunderstandings that feed requests for withdrawal of the Act and the case for reform that the French University large research organizations or schools can expect to move them also.