Brückl: Lateral entrants do not solve school crisis - border protection as a solution!
Brückl: Lateral entrants do not solve school crisis - border protection as a solution!
In the current debate about the lack of teachers in Austria, Hermann Brückl, spokesman for the FPÖ education spokesman, criticized the announcement to train career changers in the urgent procedure for teaching at schools. He describes this measure as a sign of the failure of the ÖVP-led education policy. Brückl emphasizes that the lack of teachers has been ignored for years and that the current solution is only an attempt to hide the failure. According to him, training of career changers can be helpful in individual cases, but quick courses and superficial training do not replace well -founded pedagogical training.Today, around 4,300 career changers are active at Austria's compulsory schools, supported by almost 1,100 teaching students and 40 retired teachers. These figures come from a parliamentary request from the SPÖ, which was answered by Education Minister Martin Polaschek (ÖVP). A total of around 70,600 teachers teach at the compulsory schools, with most of the career changers, around 1,900, in Vienna. From autumn, courses for people with suitable studies and professional experience should start at all universities of teacher in order to counteract the lack of personnel. In full expansion, the ministry expects 200 to 300 graduates per year from these courses.
criticism of education policy
Brückl also criticizes that schools are increasingly taking on tasks that do not have to do directly with education, such as the integration of students with various backgrounds. He calls for a clear change of course in migration policy to relieve the school system. In his opinion, educational measures would remain ineffective without targeted measures to control the influx of non -or difficult to integrate.
For the coming school year 2023/24, administrative assistants were fixed in financial equalization, supplemented by co -financing of the federal government of up to 15 million euros per school year. In cooperation with the federal states, these funds could finance up to 700 full -time staff for school social work. In the current school year, 65 school social workers and 32 social workers are already co-financed by the federal government, while the responsibility for school social work primarily lies with the state's child and youth welfare.
Appreciated also 199 co -financed school psychologists support the compulsory schools. Nevertheless, the question remains whether the introduction of career changers can solve the long -term challenges in the education system in the current form. Brückl's warning that the current approaches are not sufficient remains in the room.
Overall, the discussion shows that education policy in Austria faces major challenges that must be addressed not only by increasing the number of teachers, but also by strategic reforms.
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