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There is a shortage of preparatory basic education teachers in Espoo. 59 children are waiting for a teacher to be found for them. School meals are also not available for children waiting for a school place.
Set Children who arrived from Ukraine and other foreign countries have been left without a school place in Espoo. Currently, 59 children are waiting to enter preparatory basic education.
School meals are also not available for children waiting for a school place, but families must arrange meals for the children while they wait.
How is it possible that the children have not been able to go to school in Finland?
Director of basic education in Espoo Juha Nurmen there are not enough teachers. Seven groups of preparatory basic education are missing a teacher. A teacher has been found for some of these groups. In addition to recruitment, efforts are being made to ease the situation with various patchwork-like temporary arrangements in which teachers are offered additional hours.
According to Nurmi, the need for school places increased unexpectedly, and the city has not had time to react to the situation. In addition to Ukrainians, immigration has brought more students and the need for preparatory education.
There are a total of 569 children in preparatory education in Espoo. In September of last year, there were a total of 512 students.
Turf according to, nowadays it is even more difficult to find teachers for substitutes and fixed-term assignments. In addition, the challenge has been brought by the fact that teaching staff are typically recruited in the spring for the next academic year. When more teachers were unexpectedly needed in the fall, the teachers had already found jobs elsewhere.
“In the future, we will try to anticipate the situation better so that we can recruit teachers for groups earlier.”
Nurmi points out that Ukrainian children do not necessarily have compulsory education in Finland, and some may attend a distance school organized by Ukraine. The reason for the possibility is temporary protection.
Despite this, children have the right to basic education, and basic education is the responsibility of municipalities.
Grass is confident that teachers will be recruited and children will be able to go to school. However, he does not yet dare to estimate when the children will get to school.
In the basic education of the preparatory school in Espoo, there is a limit that there can be a maximum of 12 students in one group. According to Nurmi, usually in the spring, groups are formed in sheds, because there are usually even more students in the groups.
“Now so many more students have entered the preparatory basic education that there have not been enough places.”‘
Children arriving in Finland who do not know Finnish are guided to preparatory basic education. In preparatory education, the purpose is to learn the language, after which the children move to the appropriate grade level. Currently, in Espoo, about a fifth of the children in preparatory basic education are Ukrainians.
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