Erfurt (dpa/th) – 653 teachers were hired on a permanent basis in Thuringia in the first half of the 2023/24 school year. At 166, so-called lateral entrants made up a quarter of the new hires. This corresponds to the previous year’s level, the Ministry of Education said upon request. In addition, 262 educators were hired on a temporary and permanent basis.
If you look at the new hires with a view to the individual school types, it quickly becomes clear that there are areas in which those starting out as teachers actually form the majority: 63 of 121 newly hired teachers at mainstream schools were career changers – they were at comprehensive schools even 9 out of 16. The rate of lateral entrants was lowest at 8.6 percent, however, at high schools and colleges. In primary schools the proportion was 12.6 percent.
Education Minister Helmut Holter (Left) rated the number of new hires as a “stage success”. School authorities have made a strong commitment. The teacher recruitment campaign would have paid off, as would other measures to improve hiring conditions. But Holter also admitted: “Hiring originally trained teachers remains a major challenge that we continue to successfully face.”
The teacher shortage has been troubling Thuringia for years. In response to this, the possibility was created, among other things, for people without traditional teacher training to be able to teach as teachers under certain conditions.
A look at Thuringia’s career portal gives you an idea of how many teaching positions are currently unfilled: in mid-February, more than 700 job offers were listed there under the search term “teacher”.
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2024-02-10 10:22:56
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