• Education Isabel Celaá eliminates failures as a criterion to repeat and obtain the title in compulsory education

Juanjo González Ruiz

, interim professor of Computer Science in FP, will appear this weekend, for the third time, to the competitive examinations in Granada. He has spent months studying two hours a day, including Saturdays and Sundays, in order to consolidate his place. He has been in institutes of Huelga, Granada, Nebrija and Lucena and seeks "stability". "And that in my specialty there is constant work because not everyone sees teaching as an alternative. I worked in consulting before, but I have always liked teaching," he says.

Juanjo is one of the more than

250,000

aspiring teachers who will be examined from this Saturday throughout Spain for

30,000

places in Secondary, FP and other teaching bodies. They are the first oppositions held in almost two years, after the Covid-19 pandemic paralyzed the process. The call will be held at a time of intense discomfort of teachers with the Government and the CCAA because Minister Isabel Celaá has increased the ratios of students per classroom to place them in the pre-pandemic situation and that will mean that thousands of teachers hired for reinforcement - 40,000 have been recruited, in total - stay on the street.

There are doubts and fear about the safety and hygiene that will be in the exams -

CCOO

accuses the Ministry of "lack of leadership" - and complaints about the scarce job offer. The

CSIF

union

considers it to be "insufficient" and denounces that the internship rates in education "remain at 40%" despite the fact that the government promised to reduce them to 8%.

CCOO has called for mobilizations in the autonomous communities so that the ratios are maintained during this course and the reinforcement teachers continue in their positions.

He considers that Celaá should have been more involved and given more specific instructions in which these hiring would be shielded, but the minister has let each autonomy do whatever it wants, although, yes, it has asked them to have reinforcements and has recalled that the Government has put money for it.

Some regions, such as

Madrid

and

Catalonia

, have already announced that there will be a progressive decrease in the ratios in the coming years, but others trust that the vaccines will regularize the situation in the classrooms during the new academic year and it will no longer be necessary to establish additional groups that require more troops.

For now, the Government maintains the bubbles for the smallest and distances of

1.2

meters for the elderly, but does not deny that the situation may change in the coming months, since it is expected that students over

12

years

of

age can be vaccinated at the beginning of the course.

On the other hand, there is in the educational sector "great uncertainty" in the face of the changes in the new course, the first to implement the Celaá Law. Csif believes that the new law "will worsen educational quality and generate legal uncertainty"; among other things, because the criterion of failure is no longer a yardstick for deciding whether students pass the course or graduate from ESO and Baccalaureate. "The levels of demand in the students will worsen," says

Mario Gutiérrez

, head of Education for this union.

The reform that the Government wants to make to change the content of the competitive examinations is also pending, so that they have more practical part and are less memoristic.

The syllabi have not been updated since the 90s and many of their contents have remained out of date, but a good part of the teachers interpret that the solution "cannot be to put an easier exam in the next calls."

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