Madrid and Castilla-La Mancha have also decided to convene this year’s teaching competitions without waiting for the approval of the new decree being prepared by the Ministry of Education that will facilitate the stabilization of interim teachers, as announced on Monday. With both, there are already 12 autonomies that choose to convene the teaching positions for children, primary and secondary this year applying the traditional system.
The draft of the new decree, advanced by EL PAÍS, provided for a transitory regulation for the calls that took place between this year and 2024. A period in which union sources expected that some 125,000 places would be called and that the vast majority of them would go to stop interim teachers thanks to changes in the system of access to the profession.
The autonomies that, according to the count made by this newspaper last week, had already made the call or had announced their intention to do so in the coming weeks were: Asturias, Navarra, the Valencian Community, the Balearic Islands, Cantabria, Aragón, Extremadura, Galicia, the Canary Islands and La Rioja, to which Madrid and Castilla-La Mancha are now added.
Madrid, neither this course nor the one to come
The Madrid Executive has argued that it has decided to advance the call so as not to have to apply the new regulations, “tremendously unfair, especially for those well-prepared applicants who want to present themselves to the process and barely have experience,” according to its Minister of Education, Enrique Ossorio. The intention of the regional government is, in addition, to convene in a few weeks both the oppositions scheduled for this year and for the next, with the aim of not applying the changes either now or in 2023 for some 5,500 positions of primary school teachers and teachers of secondary.
Castilla-La Mancha affirms, on the other hand, that it does so because if not, it will not give them time to meet the deadlines for this year’s call, an argument similar to that used by other autonomous communities chaired by the Socialists.
Asked about this on Monday, the spokespersons for the Basque and Catalan Departments of Education assure that the idea of their governments is to wait for the approval of the new decree, initially scheduled for January, but that the Ministry of Education now calculates that it will be approved in April. The Ministries of Education of Andalusia, Murcia and Castilla y León affirm that they are studying what to do.
90% of places
Union sources calculated at the end of December that, with the new system, more than 90% of the places called will be won by interims. A part of them (which the same sources placed around 20% of the total) will be awarded without examination, through a merit contest in which, although it will be open to everyone, the interim will be imposed en masse. For the rest, a contest-opposition will be called, but the exam will have two parts (instead of the usual three) and they will not be eliminatory, which will allow the result of one to be compensated with that of the other. The weight of the experience will also increase considerably, going from 12% to 28%.
The new decree will develop in the educational field the law for the reduction of temporary employment in public employment approved in December. Stabilization advocates argue that it will put an end to the high rate of job insecurity in Spanish public education, close to 25%, which, in addition to being unfair to those affected, represents an obstacle to teaching quality. Critics warn that the change will imply that many young people who are preparing for oppositions and do not have much experience as interim teachers will hardly have a chance of getting a place, regardless of the rest of their merits, as well as that it will facilitate access to people who for years they have not approved the opposition.
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