Lang of teachers in Vienna: 6100 jobs for 2025/26 urgently advertised!

Lang of teachers in Vienna: 6100 jobs for 2025/26 urgently advertised!

As part of a current tender, a total of 6100 teachers post for the school year 2025/26 are to be filled from Monday, April 28, 2025. According to Exxpress.at , this tender includes about 89,000 hours, which corresponds to over 4,000 full-time teachers. Minister of Education Christoph Return not only encourages teacher graduates to apply, but also career changers, which indicates the urgent need for teachers.

The demand in Vienna is particularly strong, where almost 2,000 jobs are advertised. Lower Austria and Tyrol follow with 1000 available items each. The area of ​​special teachers who are particularly responsible for children with a migration background also has a high demand. In Upper Austria there are over 600 positions, while more than 400, around 300 in Salzburg and Vorarlberg and around 200 positions are available in Salzburg and Vorarlberg.

education system in the crisis

The situation in the education system is increasingly tense. A total of around 6,800 jobs have been advertised in the period of the past two years, which corresponds to an increase of around 10 percent. This underlines the current crisis, which affects the education system with around 120,000 teachers at around 6,000 schools, as one of the country's largest employers.

In addition, in the context of the teacher lack, it is also pointed out to nationwide problems. According to a report of the German School portals , the part-time quota of teachers in the school year 2022/23 is 42.3 percent, which is a new ten-year record. Over 36 percent of teachers are older than 50 years of age, which indicates an aging teaching staff.

increase in the lateral entrants

The increase in career changers is particularly alarming, which has almost doubled since the 2012/13 school year. 9.8 percent of teachers are currently in front of the class without recognized teaching examination. At numerous schools, teacher positions are not fully staffed; A survey by the Association of Education and Education (VBE) showed that this problem exists at every second school. On average, 11 percent of the teachers were missing in schools with vacant positions.

The increasing number of new students in the teacher degree gives rise to hope if the total number of teaching graduates with master or state examination is also declining. Despite an increase of 2.4 percent in the academic year 2023 to a good 46,400 people, there is a decline of 2.1 percent compared to ten years ago.

The continuing challenges in the education system require determined action. The Education Council has already announced measures, such as the temporary reduction in the hourly table and a comprehensive reform of teacher training in order to combat the lack of teachers in the long term.