The Angers universtiy didn't got additionnal money for the current year

The president of Angers university, Jean-Paul Saint-André didn't got, from the French ministry of higher education and research, the additionnal allocation he asked during an appointment on January 16th. The Angers university said Mr. Saint-André was "very resentful" when he left the ministry without a single euro more. That will not allow to the Angers University to recruit new teachers or employees in 2013, a situation Mr Saint-André considers it is "unacceptable". But given the explanations detailed on January 8th during a public conference, it is difficult to opt for another way.
 
During that conference, the president recalled the origins of the "critical situation" of Angers University. While 80% of the expenses of the university were already related to wages, between 2009 and 2011, the board give tenure to 100 persons, depriving itself of all possibilities of a regress in case of financial difficulties. "That reccruitment of an important number of persons had a direct impact on the payroll", said Mr Saint-André. That one recognized that the 2012 budget was moreover built on "unrealistic hypothesis" : under valuation of expenses and over valuation of receipts which triggered a savings plan last year which reduced the deficit.

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But apparently, the university shoud have considered cautiously a ministry hypothesis. After a meeting with the French minister on December 14th, who told to Mr Saint-André that the 2013 allocation would be "between 1,5 and 3% above that of 2012", the university considered it will be 3%. Moreover, the Angers university board refused the "freeze" of recruitments. A new information conference is planned for January 28th.