Leaked government report urges stringency on staff costs

French universities should toughen up on staff pay and time, civil service report says

French universities could live more comfortably within their budgets if they brought in more stringent measures on staff pay and time, a leaked civil service report has said.

Universities in France have “greater room for manoeuvre” to limit their staff costs than they acknowledge, according to excerpts from a leaked report from the inspectorates of public finances (IGF) and of higher education (IGAENR) published by the newspaper Les Echos on 18 September.