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The Minister of Education, Isabel Celaá, announced this Thursday that, "in an exceptional and limited way" during this school year, the requirements to practice as a teacher in Spain will be "relaxed".

It will not be necessary to have a

Secondary

, nor the old

to teach in those autonomous communities where the templates do not cover the internship lists.

Schools have divided their groups to lower the ratio and teachers are needed.

The autonomies have planned to hire about

more teachers, but there are still another

, according to the estimates of the unions.

Celaá met this Thursday with the Minister of Health, Salvador Illa, and the regional councilors to assess the incidence of the pandemic in the first weeks of the school year.

The conclusion of the CCAA, the minister has summarized, is that the balance is "very satisfactory".

It has advanced that

groups

have been closed out

of a total of

throughout Spain, which means that 0.73% of all classrooms have been quarantined.

"In

of the educational centers there has been no incident related to the

. Only three schools have closed. The common objective of opening the school has been fulfilled. All the centers have opened and the measures contemplated in the The protocol is working. In the centers we have detected positive cases of a student or a teacher, "said Celaá.

His optimism contrasts with that of the unions.

According to

, spokesman for STES, "it is not true that there are only three closed schools in all of Spain. Only in Lorca there are 27 Primary schools, seven institutes, one VET center ...".

Illa added that "it has been found that educational centers are not a place of contagion."

Although the ministers acknowledge that "the general trend of the entire course will be that some groups are constantly being confined and other quarantines are being lifted," they do not contemplate a generalized closure of classrooms as occurred in the spring.

The incidence is small, they argue, and all but two regions report magnitudes less than 1%.

During the meeting, the minister and the councilors have adopted various measures.

To begin with, they are going to "adapt" the Selectivity of next June, in line with what they already did last year to allow more electivity.

Celaá has also promised to make "normative changes" that allow adapting the curricula and didactic programs so as not to make them so extensive, and this modification could affect the university entrance exam.

To minimize the impact of Covid, the Government promotes changing VET practices in work centers for projects that students can do at home.

Illa and Celaá have given the CCAA some guidelines that discharge the responsibility of being infected by FP students.

Another of the agreed measures is to contemplate the "obligation" to "ensure full-time training for all students", which means, in practice, that all schools and institutes must provide distance training to students who take in quarantine, either in

or providing direct contact with the student.

"We cannot allow any student to be unattended," stressed Celaá, who has warned: "This issue must be resolved in

and function at full capacity."

Support for students with learning or emotional difficulties will also be reinforced, making

computers or tablets available to students and recovering the

plan

for students who need educational reinforcement.

This program includes

, an amount that experts consider "insufficient".

And digital media will not be, at the earliest, until Christmas, as the minister has recognized.

In this Thursday's agreement, the need to "strengthen" "cooperation" between administrations and "institutional loyalty" has been stressed and the Government has distributed a form to the autonomous regions so that data collection is done in a more unified way.

Regarding the school absenteeism that is occurring in some families, who are afraid to take their children to school, Celaá has assured that only three autonomies observe that "some cultural minority groups persist in not attending class."

It also has the first conclusions of the report of the

, which says that the "pandemic does not exonerate attending the educational center."

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