Shortage of primary teachers is getting worse, warns professional body
5 years, 6 months ago

Shortage of primary teachers is getting worse, warns professional body

Dutch News  

The national shortage of teaching staff is expected to worsen next year, with around 1,400 vacancies unfilled when children return to school after the summer holidays. Rina den Besten, of the primary school council PO-Raad, said half of all school boards anticipated having to cancel classes during the year and one in four would have to use non-teaching staff to cover lessons. A recently published prognosis indicated that the national shortage of teachers would grow to 10,000 by 2027, with schools in the Randstad worst affected. The PO-Raad said the government needed to close the pay gap between primary and secondary school teachers and do more to recruit and retain staff.

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Schools short by 13,000 teachers, problem worst in big cities
4 weeks, 1 day ago

Schools short by 13,000 teachers, problem worst in big cities

Dutch News  

Primary and secondary schools and vocational colleges are struggling with a shortage of 13,000 teachers and the number is expected to remain high for several years, education ministers Eppo Bruins and Mariëlle Paul have warned. Secondary schools are missing 3,800 full-time teachers, the same number as in 2023, with shortages expected to get worse in subjects such as Dutch, German …

Ministry of Education says teacher shortage will continue for next ten years
4 weeks, 2 days ago

Ministry of Education says teacher shortage will continue for next ten years

NL Times  

Schools will be suffering from teacher shortages for the next ten years, officials from the Ministry of Education wrote in an annual report on the subject. But State Secretary of Basic Education Marielle Paul has said that this is a temporary effect due to the expiration of the support program against corona backlogs. Compared to the total number of jobs, …

Qualified teachers in other jobs far exceed shortage: research
1 month, 1 week ago

Qualified teachers in other jobs far exceed shortage: research

Dutch News  

Tens of thousands of teachers, qualified nurses, and classroom assistants are not working in the professions for which they are trained, an investigation by the education and labour market research centre ROA has shown. The “hidden reserve” includes some 62,000 teachers, about four times the number of secondary school teachers currently needed. Much can also be done to lower the …

The teacher pay gap is even worse now than it was in the 1990s, a new report finds
3 months, 4 weeks ago

The teacher pay gap is even worse now than it was in the 1990s, a new report finds

Salon  

Teachers in the U.S. are earning less money compared to similar professions than ever before, according to a report written by Sylvia Allegretto, a senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research and research associate at the Economic Policy Institute, think tanks based in Washington, DC. The report found that, in 2023, teachers on average earned 73.4 cents …

Thousands of vacancies for the coming school year not yet filled
6 months ago

Thousands of vacancies for the coming school year not yet filled

NL Times  

For most children and teachers in the Netherlands, the school year is over. The new school year starts in a month and a half, but many schools have not yet completed their enrollments. More than one in three secondary schools and almost one in 10 elementary schools still have vacancies for the coming school year, according to data analyzed by …

Free teacher training is a "no-brainer": union official
1 year ago

Free teacher training is a "no-brainer": union official

Dutch News  

The AOb teachers’ union is calling for free teacher training as an additional measure to combat staff shortages. “I think it’s a no-brainer but no one is looking at it seriously,” AOb chairwoman Tamar van Gelder said in an interview on the union site. Van Gelder said the current measures, which include halving study fees for people entering teaching from …

Free teacher training is a "no-brainer": union official
1 year ago

Free teacher training is a "no-brainer": union official

Dutch News  

The AOb teachers’ union is calling for free teacher training as an additional measure to combat staff shortages. “I think it’s a no-brainer but no one is looking at it seriously,” AOb chairwoman Tamar van Gelder said in an interview on the union site. Van Gelder said the current measures, which include halving study fees for people entering teaching from …

New survey finds almost every public school is being affected by casual teacher shortage
1 year, 2 months ago

New survey finds almost every public school is being affected by casual teacher shortage

ABC  

A major casual teacher shortage means almost 10,000 lessons are happening without adequate educational support in public schools across New South Wales every day. It found a 42 per cent shortfall in the number of casual teachers is driving the problem and it warns that almost every public school surveyed is affected. NSW Teachers Federation acting president Henry Rajendra said, …

350 elementary schools will no longer hire temporary workers starting this school year
1 year, 4 months ago

350 elementary schools will no longer hire temporary workers starting this school year

NL Times  

Dutch elementary schools have reached their limit. Around 350 elementary schools have announced in a manifesto that they will no longer hire expensive temporary or self-employed workers from the coming school year. The reason is that the elementary schools have to pay "extortionate prices" for the temporary workers. Since it is not possible to stop the progress of temporary workers …

One in nine children will not have a teacher after the holiday
1 year, 4 months ago

One in nine children will not have a teacher after the holiday

Dutch News  

Teaching union AOb is calling on the government to increase teacher salaries because one in nine children will not have a teacher as the new school year starts. Schools have spent the last weeks trying to fill vacancies and exploring other ways of ensuring teaching can go ahead, such as employing unqualified staff, combining classes or introducing a four-day week. …

One in nine children will not have a teacher after the holiday
1 year, 4 months ago

One in nine children will not have a teacher after the holiday

Dutch News  

Teaching union AOb is calling on the government to increase teacher salaries because one in nine children will not have a teacher as the new school year starts. Schools have spent the last weeks trying to fill vacancies and exploring other ways of ensuring teaching can go ahead, such as employing unqualified staff, combining classes or introducing a four-day week. …

Concerns over teacher shortage undiminished as school year starts for kids in central NL
1 year, 4 months ago

Concerns over teacher shortage undiminished as school year starts for kids in central NL

NL Times  

The new school year starts for primary- and secondary school pupils in the Midden-Nederland region this week. And as kids return to class, many schools are still trying to fill gaps in their rosters as the teacher shortage persists, NOS reports. According to labor market estimates commissioned by the Ministry of Education at the end of last year, the teacher …

Increase in number of teachers leaving profession ‘hugely concerning’
1 year, 7 months ago

Increase in number of teachers leaving profession ‘hugely concerning’

The Independent  

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Jack Worth, from the National Foundation for Educational Research, said: “It is hugely concerning …

Teachers leaving their jobs at an accelerating rate in Pennsylvania, new study finds
1 year, 7 months ago

Teachers leaving their jobs at an accelerating rate in Pennsylvania, new study finds

Associated Press  

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Teachers are leaving their jobs at an accelerating rate in Pennsylvania, amid fears of a nationwide exodus of burned-out teachers and a collapse in enrollment in recruitment programs that is making teachers increasingly difficult to replace. A new analysis by Penn State’s Center for Education Evaluation and Policy Analysis shows that the rate of teacher attrition in …

Schools ‘increasingly struggling to recruit teachers’
1 year, 8 months ago

Schools ‘increasingly struggling to recruit teachers’

The Independent  

Schools are struggling to recruit teachers, with tens of thousands of vacancies being advertised, according to new research. Teachers face a double whammy because their pay has stagnated, but they are also losing classroom help, such as teaching assistants and new technology, because of a squeeze on school budgets Neil Carberry, REC REC chief executive Neil Carberry said: “Schools are …

What we do (and don't) know about teacher shortages, and what can be done about them
1 year, 9 months ago

What we do (and don't) know about teacher shortages, and what can be done about them

NPR  

What we do know about teacher shortages, and what can be done about them Enlarge this image toggle caption Imani Khayyam for NPR Imani Khayyam for NPR Wearing an effortless smile and a crisp, gray suit with a cloth lapel flower, Tommy Nalls Jr. projects confidence. Sponsor Message Education Part 2: Amid teacher shortages, Mississippi embraces a movement to grow …

Netherlands struggles to find qualified teachers; Shortage hits Amsterdam hard
1 year, 11 months ago

Netherlands struggles to find qualified teachers; Shortage hits Amsterdam hard

NL Times  

More and more students are entering teacher training with a too-low language level. The Universities of Applied Sciences are trying to catch the students up but don’t want to hold teachers back due to the teacher shortage, AD reports. In Amsterdam, the teacher shortage is getting so bad that primary schools in the capital are considering dramatic changes to how …

Teacher shortages are real, but not for the reason you heard
2 years, 4 months ago

Teacher shortages are real, but not for the reason you heard

Associated Press  

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Everywhere, it seems, back-to-school has been shadowed by worries of a teacher shortage. It’s unknown how many of those positions lost were teaching jobs, or other staff members like bus drivers — support positions that schools are having an especially hard time filling. National Education Association union leader Becky Pringle tweeted in April: “The educator shortage is …

COVID-fuelled teacher shortage sees Education Department head office staff back in WA schools
2 years, 7 months ago

COVID-fuelled teacher shortage sees Education Department head office staff back in WA schools

ABC  

More than 500 staff from the Education Department have been pulled out of its head office in East Perth and redeployed to teach in schools as COVID-19 decimates the ranks of teachers. Key points: Schools have been hit especially hard by COVID-19 Schools have been hit especially hard by COVID-19 Demand for relief teachers has skyrocketed Demand for relief teachers …

Shortage of teaching staff to hit state-run schools in Telangana
2 years, 7 months ago

Shortage of teaching staff to hit state-run schools in Telangana

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: With only less than 10 days to go for schools to reopen, shortage of teaching staff at government schools is causing a headache to authorities. There is a shortage of 3,000 teachers in about 26,000 government schools in the state, and over 6,000 teachers in zilla parishad schools, according to official sources. We want the government to immediately promote …

L.A. teacher shortage crisis hits poor kids hardest, forcing a last-ditch staffing effort
2 years, 8 months ago

L.A. teacher shortage crisis hits poor kids hardest, forcing a last-ditch staffing effort

LA Times  

As school districts nationwide struggle to hire and retain teachers amid a shortage, Los Angeles Unified Supt. In a statement, United Teachers Los Angeles President Cecily Myart-Cruz said the district’s initiative is another sign that it needs to do “everything they can” to retain educators and improve teaching conditions during an “unprecedented shortage that’s reached an emergency level.” “We need …

Union warns of ‘imminent’ crisis as most teachers consider quitting
2 years, 9 months ago

Union warns of ‘imminent’ crisis as most teachers consider quitting

The Independent  

The best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week - from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A teaching …

Amid scrambles for teachers, some fear worse shortages ahead
2 years, 11 months ago

Amid scrambles for teachers, some fear worse shortages ahead

Associated Press  

HARRISBURG, Pa. — As schools scramble to find enough substitute teachers to keep classrooms running through the latest surge of the coronavirus, some experts warn there are longer-term problems with the teacher pipeline that cannot be solved with emergency substitutes, bonuses and loosened qualifications. “I see a very large concern, it’s like impending doom almost, when you look out a …

Bonus for teachers, other staff at struggling schools
3 years, 4 months ago

Bonus for teachers, other staff at struggling schools

NL Times  

Teachers, school leaders and support staff working at schools with significant disadvantages will get a bonus of on average 8 percent of their wages over the next two years, Minister Arie Slob for Primary and Secondary Education announced. Educators and administrators at these struggling schools will have to work extra hard to catch up on study delays and backlogs in …

Primary schools in Amsterdam lure teachers with more cash
4 years, 6 months ago

Primary schools in Amsterdam lure teachers with more cash

Dutch News  

Amsterdam primary school teachers are to be given an annual bonus of €1,000, and an extra €1,500 on top if they opt for a job in a school in a disadvantaged neighbourhood, in an effort to stop more teachers from leaving. The measure is part of a four-year package aimed at combating the shortage of teachers in the four big …

Primary schools in Amsterdam lure teachers with more cash
4 years, 6 months ago

Primary schools in Amsterdam lure teachers with more cash

Dutch News  

Amsterdam primary school teachers are to be given an annual bonus of €1,000, and an extra €1,500 on top if they opt for a job in a school in a disadvantaged neighbourhood, in an effort to stop more teachers from leaving. The measure is part of a four-year package aimed at combating the shortage of teachers in the four big …

Teacher shortage worries schools, but most say standards have not slipped
4 years, 7 months ago

Teacher shortage worries schools, but most say standards have not slipped

Dutch News  

School heads are worried about the impact of the shortage of teachers when primary schools reopen fully again on June 8. ‘We already had a shortage of primary school teachers and that is even more the case now,’ Ingrid Doornbos of the school heads association AVS said. ‘But some schools say their pupils have made more progress,’ Doornbos said. Remote …

Teacher shortage worries schools, but most say standards have not slipped
4 years, 7 months ago

Teacher shortage worries schools, but most say standards have not slipped

Dutch News  

School heads are worried about the impact of the shortage of teachers when primary schools reopen fully again on June 8. ‘We already had a shortage of primary school teachers and that is even more the case now,’ Ingrid Doornbos of the school heads association AVS said. ‘But some schools say their pupils have made more progress,’ Doornbos said. Remote …

Primary schools present their plans to cope with teacher shortages
4 years, 11 months ago

Primary schools present their plans to cope with teacher shortages

Dutch News  

Primary schools in Amsterdam have presented their plans for combating the shortage of teachers to education minister Arie Slob, and a cut to a four-day week is one of the suggestions. The schools say that more ‘guest teachers’, classroom assistants and other unqualified staff will end up in front of the class – and could take over on the fifth …

Primary schools present their plans to cope with teacher shortages
4 years, 11 months ago

Primary schools present their plans to cope with teacher shortages

Dutch News  

Primary schools in Amsterdam have presented their plans for combating the shortage of teachers to education minister Arie Slob, and a cut to a four-day week is one of the suggestions. The schools say that more ‘guest teachers’, classroom assistants and other unqualified staff will end up in front of the class – and could take over on the fifth …

Teacher shortage: More pupils starting secondary school with learning arrears
5 years ago

Teacher shortage: More pupils starting secondary school with learning arrears

NL Times  

Secondary schools increasingly have to give extra lessons to pupils in the bridge classes to catch up on backlogs from primary school, sector organization VO-Raad said to newspaper AD. The organization noticed that more and more pupils are staring high school at below the desired level, and fears that the situation will only become worse if no solution is found …

Four in 10 Dutch schools have a chronic lack of teaching staff: union
5 years, 2 months ago

Four in 10 Dutch schools have a chronic lack of teaching staff: union

Dutch News  

The shortage of teachers is becoming extremely worrying and four in 10 schools now have no replacement staff should teachers fall ill, according to the Aob teaching union on Friday. While four in 10 ordinary schools are suffering, two-thirds of special needs schools do not have replacement staff, the survey showed. And in the first few weeks of the new …

Four in 10 Dutch schools have a chronic lack of teaching staff: union
5 years, 2 months ago

Four in 10 Dutch schools have a chronic lack of teaching staff: union

Dutch News  

The shortage of teachers is becoming extremely worrying and four in 10 schools now have no replacement staff should teachers fall ill, according to the Aob teaching union on Friday. While four in 10 ordinary schools are suffering, two-thirds of special needs schools do not have replacement staff, the survey showed. And in the first few weeks of the new …

Teacher shortage far worse than previously thought; 40% of schools in trouble: Union
5 years, 2 months ago

Teacher shortage far worse than previously thought; 40% of schools in trouble: Union

NL Times  

The teacher shortage is taking on worrying forms, according to education union AOb. In special education, the problems are even worse - two thirds of schools don't have enough teachers, the union concludes based on its own research among 6,200 teachers, the Telegraaf reports. The teacher shortage often caused problems over the past years, but this year the problems are …

Teacher shortage claims first victim: Amsterdam school to close
5 years, 3 months ago

Teacher shortage claims first victim: Amsterdam school to close

Dutch News  

An Amsterdam primary school is closing its doors because of the teacher shortage, the Parool reports. School administrator Hubert de Waard told the paper the quality of education could no longer be guaranteed despite efforts to hire temporary staff. In July the school was criticised by school inspectors for not meeting standards but the board says the shortage of teachers …

Teacher shortage claims first victim: Amsterdam school to close
5 years, 3 months ago

Teacher shortage claims first victim: Amsterdam school to close

Dutch News  

An Amsterdam primary school is closing its doors because of the teacher shortage, the Parool reports. School administrator Hubert de Waard told the paper the quality of education could no longer be guaranteed despite efforts to hire temporary staff. In July the school was criticised by school inspectors for not meeting standards but the board says the shortage of teachers …

Sharp growth in people leaving current jobs to become primary school teachers
5 years, 4 months ago

Sharp growth in people leaving current jobs to become primary school teachers

NL Times  

The number of people who want to be retrained as a teacher in primary education more than doubled this year. In 2018 around 450 people signed up to be retrained as a primary school teacher, this year there were nearly 1,100, the national organization for teacher education in primary education LOBO said to NOS on Monday. The figures were inventoried …

Shortage of primary teachers is getting worse, warns professional body
5 years, 6 months ago

Shortage of primary teachers is getting worse, warns professional body

Dutch News  

The national shortage of teaching staff is expected to worsen next year, with around 1,400 vacancies unfilled when children return to school after the summer holidays. Rina den Besten, of the primary school council PO-Raad, said half of all school boards anticipated having to cancel classes during the year and one in four would have to use non-teaching staff to …

Unevenly distributed teacher shortage putting education at risk: Inspectorate
5 years, 9 months ago

Unevenly distributed teacher shortage putting education at risk: Inspectorate

NL Times  

An unevenly distributed teacher shortage is putting the future of Dutch education at risk, the Education Inspectorate said in its annual State of Education report. The quality of education is still on par on average, but to maintain that level, "hard choices" will have to be made, the Inspectorate said, NU.nl reports. These cracks threaten to deepen "partly due to …

45% shortage of teachers in govt schools
6 years ago

45% shortage of teachers in govt schools

India Today  

These days, Sagar Singh frets about the academic future of his daughter who studies at Sarvodaya Vidyalaya in Delhi’s Cantonment area. Singh sums up the crisis in Delhi government schools which have only 35,034 regular teachers against a sanctioned strength of 64,096. Even if guest teachers are factored in, Delhi government schools are short of 7,046 teaching hands. In July, …

Shortage of supply teachers creating headache for schools
6 years, 3 months ago

Shortage of supply teachers creating headache for schools

Dutch News  

Schools are struggling with a shortage of supply teachers because replacement staff are being offered permanent contracts. On average supply teacher agencies have lost a third of their personnel during the last school year, often as a result of schools offering permanent jobs to teachers who have stood in for a member of staff. ‘The continuity of education is in …

Shortage of supply teachers creating headache for schools
6 years, 3 months ago

Shortage of supply teachers creating headache for schools

Dutch News  

Schools are struggling with a shortage of supply teachers because replacement staff are being offered permanent contracts. On average supply teacher agencies have lost a third of their personnel during the last school year, often as a result of schools offering permanent jobs to teachers who have stood in for a member of staff. ‘The continuity of education is in …

Civil servants, students and refugees: Amsterdam presents flying teachers squad
6 years, 4 months ago

Civil servants, students and refugees: Amsterdam presents flying teachers squad

Dutch News  

Amsterdam city council has come up with a team of school assistants and substitute teachers from its own ranks to combat teacher shortages in the capital, the Volkskrant reports. Some 60 civil servants, of whom four are qualified teachers, will help out this school year if large number of teachers at primary and secondary schools fall ill from flu, or …

Civil servants, students and refugees: Amsterdam presents flying teachers squad
6 years, 4 months ago

Civil servants, students and refugees: Amsterdam presents flying teachers squad

Dutch News  

Amsterdam city council has come up with a team of school assistants and substitute teachers from its own ranks to combat teacher shortages in the capital, the Volkskrant reports. Some 60 civil servants, of whom four are qualified teachers, will help out this school year if large number of teachers at primary and secondary schools fall ill from flu, or …

Teacher shortage especially a Randstad problem: report
6 years, 5 months ago

Teacher shortage especially a Randstad problem: report

NL Times  

The massive primary school teacher shortage in the Netherlands seems to be mainly limited to the big cities in the west of the country, according to figures from benefits agency UWV that newspaper Trouw requested. As you get farther away from the big cities, it becomes easier and easier to fill vacancies. In theory, the teacher shortage can be solved …

Post summer shortage of 1,300 primary school teachers looms
6 years, 5 months ago

Post summer shortage of 1,300 primary school teachers looms

Dutch News  

Primary schools in the Netherlands face a shortage of 1,300 teachers after the summer holidays, according to a poll of school heads by sector organisation PO-Raad. Tens of thousands of pupils will be affected by the teacher shortage and school heads are being forced to take emergency measures to soften the impact, the council said. ‘We need a solution in …

Post summer shortage of 1,300 primary school teachers looms
6 years, 5 months ago

Post summer shortage of 1,300 primary school teachers looms

Dutch News  

Primary schools in the Netherlands face a shortage of 1,300 teachers after the summer holidays, according to a poll of school heads by sector organisation PO-Raad. Tens of thousands of pupils will be affected by the teacher shortage and school heads are being forced to take emergency measures to soften the impact, the council said. ‘We need a solution in …

Amsterdam teacher shortage: 7,900 kids don't have a teacher yet
6 years, 6 months ago

Amsterdam teacher shortage: 7,900 kids don't have a teacher yet

NL Times  

Around 7,900 children in Amsterdam do not yet know who their teacher will be next year, according to BBO, an administrative group of 35 primary schools in the city. The primary school teacher shortage in Amsterdam is expected to increase to 500 open vacancies by 2023, which means that 15 thousand pupils won't have a teacher. Over the past months, …

Contracts of 725 primary school teachers not renewed
6 years, 6 months ago

Contracts of 725 primary school teachers not renewed

The Hindu  

Contracts of 725 primary school teachers employed with the North Corporation have not been renewed this year because there is a surplus of employed teachers, said a government official on Wednesday. ‘Numbers are faulty’ “The corporation’s numbers are faulty,” said Jitendra Verma, member of Samvida Shikshak Parivar Kalyan Samiti — a contract teachers union member, who met North Corporation Mayor …

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