What this competition is
Tunisia hires secondary, technical and vocational education teachers through a competitive written exam, not through a CV review or an interview alone. The main route in is the concours externe sur epreuves (external competition on written tests), opened annually by the Ministry of Education through a ministerial decision published in the Journal Officiel de la Republique Tunisienne (JORT), with candidates registering nationally on the Edunet platform and filing their paper dossier at the Regional Education Commissariat (Commissariat Regional de l’Education) covering their governorate of residence. Unlike Egypt’s CAOA teacher competitions, which run as many separately scheduled, subject-specific waves spread across the year, Tunisia’s teacher concours is organised as one national session per recruitment cycle, with a single online registration window, one written exam period for every specialisation nationwide, and a vacancy count published up front in the opening decision, the same single-session shape Morocco’s AREF/CRMEF concours has. The ministry also opens separate, smaller named concours for other grades in the system, such as school inspectors; this page covers the main teacher-recruitment concours, the one with the clearest and most recently reported scale.
How the competition actually runs
The ministry opens online registration on Edunet for several weeks, then holds a single written exam period for every candidate nationwide, with testing spread over 67 exam centres across the country’s 26 regional education commissariats. The written stage combines a multiple-choice (QCM) general and administrative-organisation test with a written test specific to the specialisation and teaching subject the candidate applied for. Candidates admitted from the written stage then sit an oral exam before a jury.
Registration happens in two steps. Candidates first register online on Edunet by the stated deadline, then must separately file a complete paper dossier at the regional education commissariat for their governorate (the address matched against their national identity card), by a later deadline. For the 2026 session, online registration closed 14 March 2026 and the paper dossier deadline followed on 27 March 2026, with written exams beginning 13 April 2026. A dossier filed late, filed at the wrong office, or missing a required document is rejected outright, so the two-deadline structure is not a formality.
Who is eligible
Candidates must hold Tunisian nationality and a university degree (licence or higher) or recognised equivalent diploma matching the specialisation applied for, as fixed by the session’s own ministerial decision. The age limit is also set per session: the 2026 session’s announcement capped entry at under 40 years old. The paper dossier itself carries its own document requirements with their own validity windows: an extract from the judicial record (bulletin no. 3) issued less than three months before filing, two birth certificate extracts issued less than one year before filing, and a medical certificate issued less than three months before filing attesting the candidate is fit to carry out teaching duties. A dossier that is incomplete, filed after the deadline, or registered only online without the paper filing that must follow it, is rejected.
Scale
The clearest sourced figure for this competition comes from the 2026 session: the Ministry of Education opened it for 1,630 teaching posts across 14 specialisations in secondary, technical and vocational education, with mathematics (390 posts), Arabic language (320 posts) and physical sciences (185 posts) carrying the largest shares. African Manager and Tuniscope reported 66,125 candidates sitting the written exam across 67 centres in the 26 regional education commissariats when testing began on 13 April 2026, a figure La Presse and Mosaique FM both independently confirmed in their own coverage of the same session. That is roughly 40 candidates for every post on offer in this single session.
What this page does not yet cover
This page covers the 2026 session specifically; a sourced applicant total for earlier teacher-recruitment sessions (the ministry has run broadly similar competitions in prior years with different post counts, such as a 2024-2025 round of competitions for primary and secondary school inspector posts) was not found in the research behind this page and is not assumed here. The exact weighting between the written and oral stages, and the Journal Officiel decision’s full list of per-specialisation eligibility conditions, were not found in sourced form either and are left to the session’s own official ministerial decision. Smaller, separately named concours the ministry runs for other grades, such as school inspectors, are not covered here and would need their own page if they clear the same sourcing bar.