Why does teacher training play such a minor role in universities ? The status and role of teaching researchers, the situation of universities today and the opinion of academics on their "job" may help us understand this deficiency. Indeed, the variety of situations among teaching researchers, mainly due to the difference between subject matters, entails specific views of teaching and research missions. This attempt to analyse the situation is based first on a number of official rules and regulations, then on articles and books about universities and finally on the results of two surveys of teaching researchers in various subjects.Pourquoi la formation à l'enseignement a-t-elle si peu de place à l'Université ? Le statut et les missions des...