In response to the severe shortage of teachers, the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Suematsu will actively utilize the system that can hire working adults who have knowledge and experience without a teacher's license, and will work on the reappointment of teachers who have retired. , I requested the superintendents of the Board of Education nationwide.
On the 28th, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology held an extraordinary online meeting in which the superintendents of the boards of education of prefectures and ordinance-designated cities participated.
In this, Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Suematsu said about the situation of teacher shortage, "I hear that the situation is still severe this year as well as last year. I would like you to take every possible measure to secure teachers."
On top of that, we will actively utilize the special license system that allows working people who have knowledge and experience without a teacher's license to be hired as teachers, appoint working people who have a teacher's license but do not have a teaching profession, and teachers who have retired. I requested that you work on the reappointment of.
In addition, Minister Suematsu said that it is necessary to hire excellent human resources, and said that he would consider making it possible to take the teacher employment examination, which is usually held around the summer of the fourth year of university, in the third year of university. rice field.