A total of 107,527 teachers are in the Costa-Galapagos regime. The 2022-2023 school year for the fiscal system will begin next Friday, May 6, 2022, in a staggered manner; while some private campuses will do so from May 4.
Of these, 55,334 have appointments; 51,393, contract; 800, another type of employment relationship.
In the tax system alone there are 80,017; in the fiscomisional, 4,762; in the municipal, 283; and in particular, 22,465, as detailed by the Ministry of Education to a request for information made by this newspaper on the teaching staff.
The 107,527 teachers are distributed in the 9,426 schools that exist in this school system, which corresponds to around 2,475,000 students.
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María Brown, Minister of Education, mentioned that at the beginning of her administration, a sweep was made of what the needs of teachers were based on an optimal workforce per educational institution, and mentioned that the data is constantly being updated.
“We identified about 4,000 missing teachers, from different areas, to be able to be in the country’s fiscal and fiscomisional educational establishments,” he said on the radio. Pichincha.
He added that last year the processes of merit and opposition competitions culminated, delivering more than 8,000 appointments, and that contracts have been made to replace missing teachers in more than 4,000 additional games, which will end in April.
This, he added, in order to complete the teaching staff for the beginning of the school year, in May of this year.
In any case, the official specified, that State portfolio must always be reevaluating, since there could be institutions in which a teacher has recently requested a transfer and must be replaced, or where a professor is retiring and must be replaced, although she mentioned that these are topics of ordinary work.
“The teaching staff has been increased by more than 4,000 to precisely meet these needs; and we will continue this year with this contracting exercise and also with merit and opposition contests, to reach the percentage established by the law of definitively appointed teachers in the national teaching profession, ”he said.
By 2022, the Ministry of Education will put more than 9,000 games to contest and the first managers’ contest will be held.
This newspaper consulted that State portfolio if there was a personnel deficit, but it did not respond.
According to the open data platform of the Ministry of Education, there are about 2,000 fewer teachers in Costa-Galapagos when comparing 2020 with 2022.
In this educational system, for 2021-2022, 107,527 teachers are registered; in 2018-2019 there were 117,321; in 2019-2020, 117,326; in 2020-2021, 109,763.
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In two years, the National Union of Educators (UNE) estimates that nearly 10,000 teachers left the national education system. Andrés Quishpe, who is the coordinator of that union, attributed it to the fact that they have left due to resignations, retirement or death.
He argued that there is a work overload for permanently appointed teachers and educational quality is affected, since the teacher must face several courses at the same time due to a lack of teachers.
For him, an alternative would be the reinstatement of dismissed teachers and the call for competitions of merit and opposition before each school year, as indicated by the Organic Law of Intercultural Education.
“And that means budget for (the) education, as the Constitution indicates, (of) 6 (%) of the GDP. Currently it reaches 3% ”, he mentioned. Items should also be unfolded and use of the frozen items held by the Ministry of Economy, so that more teachers enter teaching in public schools.
The Association of Education Professionals considers that there is a shortage of teachers at the national level.
For its president, Cristian Veloz, this affects because it means that there are educational institutions that do not have a complete teaching staff, which generates difficulties in the campus and, possibly, student delay, depending on the subject that does not have the specialist.
“Educational institutions have generated educational contingency plans, and hand in hand the request is made for the district, (the) area to carry out the process of hiring teaching staff,” Veloz said.
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Herlinda Bósquez, from the Network of Teachers of Zone 8, which includes Guayaquil, Durán and Samborondón, considered that there will always be a shortage of teachers.
“Those who enter with the provisional or definitive appointment, all together, do not manage to fill the places that are still (available). There are colleagues who retire and often even resign. It exists and will continue to exist until education really becomes a State policy, where it is a priority and the governments of the day do not have to be giving crumbs to the educational sector”, he indicated.
Brown, in a radio interview Quito, announced that, in the merit and opposition contests of this 2022, there will be modifications, for example, in the specific characteristics, such as vacancies in educational institutions for students with disabilities, which require teachers with a specialty in that branch; for fiscomisionales, because it considers that the teacher should opt for that position from the beginning of the contest and not as it is currently, in which it is assigned; or with specific characteristics for bilingual intercultural education, rural education in areas of high geographical dispersion. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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