Education has a very accurate situation throughout the planet because, today, it is not certain that the squares can be covered … It is indispensable to ensure the teaching of all primary and secondary classes here at the end of this contract. Moreover, expert accounts indicate that if countries do not quickly take measures to correct the situation, about 4.8 million teachers may miss to transfer mandatory training stage topics, two thirds of this amount in secondary school classes.
It is the alarm that was just launched by UNESCO, the Organization for Education, Culture and United Nations Sciences, the experts of the private teaching team and the SM Foundation. The three organizations announced today the conclusions of the first world report on teachers, a study that shows that there is an “important shortage” for teachers in Spain and Europe and in a large part of the developed countries. It will be a driving, among other reasons, a strong increase in abandoning the profession and the lack of new professions, which is a phenomenon related to the excessive pregnancy of employment that lives in schools and institutes, to low salaries and the lack of professional recognition.
It carries the extra load of employment, low salaries and a lack of professional recognition 4.8 million of the necessary alternatives to teachers in the world until 2030 in the air
The analysis warns that there are increasingly professional teachers or burning teachers, which already increases two problem factors such as the high rate of retirement in current templates and the lack of teachers in the areas of STEM (mathematics, science, technology and engineering).
Really makes it clear. 90 % of 4.8 million unconfirmed professors that can be covered by 2030 are vacancies caused by the profession, which is an emerging phenomenon. Between 2015 and 2022, in just seven years, teachers who stopped teaching doubled. They went from 4.6 % to 9 %. This professional crisis especially affects the smallest, as the highest rates of losses occur in the first five years of exercise.
In Spain, he suffers from all the disturbing deficiency factors of teachers in developed countries and some in a strict manner, such as instability in work. This is the region in which temporary contracts affect more teachers. 28 % of primary school teachers and 33 % of high schools have a job, at most, give them stability for a year or less, with much higher levels between the smallest. From the double time, the European Union and fifteen points are more than average developed countries.
STEM deficiency
But this is not the only factor that threatens not to cover the primary and secondary square in the coming years. The average age of teachers is very high, 50 years old, which will lead to a retirement waterfall, and they have problems to cover STEM topics more than their European neighbors. In 2023, last year with closed data, 720 places were left as a mathematics teacher without coverage. It does not seem to be improving, because the Spanish rate for the highest graduates in these scientific and technical fields does not reach 2.3 % (much less than Europe) and a good part of graduates who can choose teaching, or stay in it, end up with technology, consulting, financial departments, financial departments, or IA, which provide them with high peace and professional situations better.
To all of the above, in Spain, we must add the large number of exhausted teachers, distributors and even the burnings who meditate on leaving the classroom. An analysis of SM revealed that two out of five Spanish teachers face their work with joy and indifference and that nearly half of them (47 %) are not clear about what must be answered about the possibility of abandoning the profession. One in three teachers announced that they were lost or illusion and two out of five related symptoms that are compatible with fatigue, anxiety or depression.
The authors of the report urge the educational authorities to stimulate a set of measures to reduce the lack of teachers and stimulate the profession. Among them, supporting self -government and academic freedom for teaching teams, ensuring comprehensive, fair, safe and healthy educational environments, where the teaching and students are paid attention to, and created a professional professional model that attracts, constitutes and maintains the best teachers and makes salaries in accordance with the responsibility required by educational work.
