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Eva Iszoro , architect and designer, has been working as an interim professor at the Superior School of Design in Madrid for seven years. The oppositions called for at the end of June have been thoroughly prepared but she is in favor of leaving them for next year, something that a good part of her colleagues also think. "We continue to teach our students online and, in addition, we have children and elderly people in our care. Libraries and academies are closed and this situation of uncertainty, anguish and stress is not the best to focus on," he explains.

Its position is shared by 13 autonomous communities, which also want to postpone these tests until 2021. Only the Community of Madrid , Galicia , the Basque Country and Catalonia remain in their decision to try to celebrate them this year. 27,789 places have been announced throughout Spain for Secondary , Vocational Training and Teaching under the Special Regime that was to be held in the summer and whose viability is now threatened by the coronavirus pandemic.

The Minister of Education, Isabel Celaá, has tried to find a common position regarding the dates of the oppositions, which are autonomous in nature but, if they are postponed, they need government intervention to extend the validity of the royal decree 84 / 2018 that establishes the current legal regime of selective processes, in order to celebrate with the same conditions the planned stabilization processes.

Unanimity has not been possible. It was not reached last week during the Sectorial Conference on Education , so the Government and the CCAA moved to address the matter again on Tuesday. The unions claim that they had scheduled a telematic meeting today. The Ministry denies that the meeting had been called and explains that "each autonomy is sending its proposal to the Ministry" separately.

'Call effect' if there is no consensus

The need to reach a common position is important because, if you do not do it this way, it will cause an effect called from one region to another. "If they only call the competitions in Madrid, applicants from all the autonomous communities will come. And it is necessary to avoid crowds, even if it is within a few months," recalls Iszoro.

For the specialty that Iszoro presents, Fashion design, there are only two places in the entire Community of Madrid. If people from other regions come, he recognizes that it will be difficult to consolidate his own. In the two previous oppositions that were presented, in 2010 and 2018, the first was in order of the lists of interim officials. The 75 topics are known, but he has no material time to review.

In addition to classes at the School, she is an associate professor in the degree of Fashion Design and Management at the Rey Juan Carlos University in Madrid. This semester has five groups of students between the two centers, which implies attending 100 people online, "with the difficulties of teaching practical subjects such as Fashion Design Projects or those related to pattern making and clothing". He also takes online end-of-course tutoring and has an older person in his care.

EL MUNDO has consulted with all communities to see what they want to do. Madrid has written to the Secretary of State, Alejandro Tiana , that his idea is "to maintain the process [the call is scheduled for June 20], as long as there is no extension of the state of alarm beyond September 11, April, since in that case we would be in time to carry out normally. " If such an extension were to take place, he adds, the process would be postponed until 2021. They are refusing to launch oppositions in the second semester of 2020, as they originally intended, "given the complications that it would cause, both to the normal development of the course, and the added pressure that would support the teachers involved in it. "

Examine as soon as possible

Similarly, Galicia has communicated to Tiana that "the position is to maintain them, as long as there is no extension of the state of alarm, since, if it does not occur, we are on time to carry out the procedure."

Also in the Department of Education of the Generalitat of Catalonia are supporters of "maintaining the oppositions but postponing its celebration for a few months, according to the request of the unions." They were called for July and the approach is to do them this 2020, but after the summer.

The Basque Country also maintains but is willing to yield: "The date is June 20, but, depending on the circumstances, we are ready to modify the date, but we maintain the public job offer" at 1,148 places, say sources from the Department of Education.

The position of these four autonomies is shared with the applicants who have been preparing for the exam for some time and want to be examined as soon as possible. "It is hard for me to understand how it is possible that High School exams cannot be held and Selectivity can be done, when the number of students and opponents per classroom is the same and the health conditions will be the same," says an opponent of the Community of Madrid that prefers not to identify itself.

Castilla y León, which was in favor of maintaining them from June 20, agrees to delay the call until 2021 "due to the uncertainty of not knowing when the state of alarm will be extended, due to the difficulty of developing the entire process with full guarantees and the problems of the opponents to prepare the tests ".

In the case of the Valencian Community , the oppositions had to be made from June 18 and it has been chosen to postpone them until June 2021. The decision that has been taken is to take the oppositions foreseen in 2021 for Infant and Primary teachers to 2022. This is what the unions recommend, and communities like the Canary Islands are willing to "join the consensus that can be reached" and unite Primary with Secondary.

Regions such as Asturias , the Balearic Islands , La Rioja , Navarra , Aragon or Extremadura have also written to the Government in favor of postponing the selection process until next year.

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