There is a great shortage of teachers in Dutch primary education within a decade. The umbrella organization for schools PO council predicts that newspaper Trouw today. It is a shortage of about 7,000 teachers.
The government must come up with money for the bridge, says the organization in the newspaper . If not, you can can no longer fill vacancies in primary schools across the country. There are structural additional millions needed to make the profession more attractive and to solve budget problems.
For years, flows fewer students in the teacher training colleges where future primary school teachers are trained. The entry requirements have become more stringent because the quality of the training was up. Too few students meet the criteria.
According to the PO council have a lot of young masters and teachers left the profession behind in recent years because they hardly could find a teaching job. Another factor is that many baby boomers retire.
Unemployment
Unemployment among young teachers this year, and in some regions next year, are still ongoing, but then really past, expect expert Peter Fountain Tilburg Data Center in the story in the newspaper. ,, Since the last warning have happened some things, "he explains.
,, The retirement age was raised and retrenched the arrangements for early retirement, making the retirement wave is delayed. The coming years, the baby boomers actually stop working. "
Big cities
The greatest shortages will occur in Amsterdam, Utrecht, Rotterdam, Almere, The Hague and the Hague region. There arose already the first problems, says director Ewald van Vliet Lucas Education, a foundation with 54 primary schools in and around The Hague, Wedding ,, This year we had trouble replacing. These are the first signs that the reservoir starts to dwindle. "
A classroom without a teacher means little, Van Vliet agrees: ,, It has not happened yet, but if this continues we should send home one day children ".
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