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The school year starts with a record and vacancies for teachers

2022-08-17T13:17:07.692Z


The school year starts with a record and vacancies for teachers Created: 08/17/2022Updated: 08/17/2022 15:08 Medical masks and school bags hang in a school cloakroom. © Patrick Pleul/dpa-Zentralbild/ZB/Symbolbild The coming school year will not be "normal" either, says the education senator. And makes it clear how many construction sites there are in the Berlin school system. Berlin - The new


The school year starts with a record and vacancies for teachers

Created: 08/17/2022Updated: 08/17/2022 15:08

Medical masks and school bags hang in a school cloakroom.

© Patrick Pleul/dpa-Zentralbild/ZB/Symbolbild

The coming school year will not be "normal" either, says the education senator.

And makes it clear how many construction sites there are in the Berlin school system.

Berlin - The new school year in Berlin starts next week with more students than ever before.

Their number at general schools has increased by a good 6,800 to 383,290 compared to the previous school year, as Education Senator Astrid-Sabine Busse (SPD) announced on Wednesday.

Among them are 37,050 first graders, 1,370 more than a year ago.

This is the highest number since 2005, according to Busse.

As in previous years, the nationwide shortage of skilled workers is also affecting schools in Berlin.

According to Busse, the need for recruitment was 2,645 permanent full-time positions, but so far not all of them have been filled.

She put the gap in vacancies at 875 - with a total of more than 34,000 teachers.

Among those hired - some of them temporary - are a number of career changers, as well as retirees or master's students.

According to the Education and Science Union (GEW), the shortage of trained teachers in Berlin is becoming increasingly dangerous.

More and more newly hired teachers have not completed teacher training.

“Only 98 percent of the schools are staffed,” explained GEW country manager Tom Erdmann.

"In terms of educational policy, this is a catastrophe that endangers the educational opportunities of an entire generation." Without the committed commitment of the teachers, "the whole place would collapse," complained Erdmann.

The students from class 2 and up will start next Monday after the summer holidays.

For the first graders, the school adventure begins on August 27th with school enrolment, and their lessons start on August 29th.

A good part of the increase in students is due to refugees from Ukraine.

According to Busse, around 1,000 people registered to attend school for the new school year.

Around 5,000 students from Ukraine were already learning at Berlin schools before the summer holidays, including almost 3,000 in so-called welcome classes.

As Busse further announced in this context, a German-Ukrainian meeting school is to be set up at three locations.

Pupils from Ukraine will also be taught there in their mother tongue.

According to Busse, this was a request from the Ukrainian Ministry of Education.

According to Buss State Secretary Alexander Slotty, the long-term goal is the founding of a European school.

But such a project takes time.

According to Busse, the corona pandemic remains an issue.

The voluntary testing for students and staff, which was practiced before the summer holidays, will be retained twice at school and once at the weekend.

For the weekend before school starts, the students are asked to carry out a self-test at home on Saturday and Sunday evening so that a possible infection can be detected early before attending school on Monday.

All students received two self-tests from the school inventory.

The country has stored a total of 27 million corona tests, which will initially last until the end of the year.

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"We don't want to allow school closures across the board this school year, and I will do my utmost to ensure that," said Busse.

Slotty added that there is currently no reason for compulsory testing in schools.

However, one reserves the instrument as well as a mask requirement at least from class 5 - depending on the course of the pandemic.

The federal government’s new infection protection rules allowed the states to do this from October.

Against the background of the energy crisis, Busse pointed out that the room temperatures in day-care centers and elementary schools are not being lowered.

"And the secondary schools must also proceed with a sense of proportion." The 23,000 air filter devices purchased because of Corona would then be used when necessary.

Health protection comes before saving energy.

As Slotty added, as part of the school building campaign that began in 2016, 25,000 school places have been created and 2.9 billion euros spent.

In the coming years, new construction activity will continue to increase.

The plan is to create a good 31,200 additional places by the 2026/27 school year.

dpa

Source: merkur

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