The CAPES constitutes, with the assistance of the agrégation, registration on the list of suitable candidates and secondment, one of the ways to obtain the title of a full qualified professor for secondary degree.
At that time it concerned the following subjects: The CAPES of documentation was created in 1989 by Lionel Jospin, then Minister of National Education, for the recruitment of Teacher-librarian.
The CAPES Coordination Pédagogique et Ingénierie de la Formation was created in 2000 by Michel Sapin, Minister of Civil Service and State Reform (2000–2002) in the Lionel Jospin government.
The Ministry of National Education announced in 2014 the creation of an IT option for the external CAPES and the CAFEP-CAPES in mathematics from the 2017 session of the competitive examination.
[2] The CAPES in classical and modern literature are reinstated by an order published in the Journal Officiel de la République Française on 10 May 2018, although there are few changes in the tests.
[6] Successful candidates in the competition are appointed trainee civil servants and assigned for the duration of the traineeship in an académie by the Minister of Education.