The Ministry of Education's plans to introduce a new curriculum in the 2026/2027 academic year and are facing scrutiny from the teachers' union SNE, which expresses concerns over the lack of detailed planning and consultation amid ongoing challenges in fulfilling current educational demands.

The Ministry of Education intends to launch a new curriculum in the 2026/2027 academic year. Four major themes are at the heart of this syllabus: participation, multilingualism, wellbeing, and digitalisation.

Teachers' union SNE, which is operated by the General Confederation of the Civil Service (CGFP) , is concerned about the implementation of this new curriculum. While officials do agree that the goals sound good in theory, they argue that there is not enough concrete information to know whether the plan will work in practice.

Teachers further lament that they are already struggling to fulfil all their various duties and that there are more than enough problems that need to be solved on a daily basis.

The teachers' union also still has reservations about the French literacy programme, arguing that multilingualism should be preserved and nurtured. Nevertheless, officials acknowledge that the linguistic backgrounds of pupils are representing an ever greater challenge in current times.

In conversation with RTL, SNE president Patrick Remakel drew attention to the need to align educational reforms across all classes and age groups to avoid problems in the long run. In that regard, teachers voice frustrations that they are not being consulted when new plans are being formulated, Remakel noted.