Digital wounds in Saxony's schools: Court of Auditors raises the alarm!

Digital wounds in Saxony's schools: Court of Auditors raises the alarm!

Digitization in Saxony's schools remains a hot topic! In its current annual report, the Saxon Court of Auditors (SRH) denounced the alarming grievances in the state's educational institutions. The focus is particularly on the immense burden of personnel costs. In 2022, Saxony spent an impressive 8.2 billion euros for 94,139 employees, which makes up almost 39 percent of total expenses. "This is a worrying amount," said Jens Michel, President of the Court of Auditors, making it clear that a thorough review of personnel policy is absolutely necessary. At the same time, the examiner Isolde Haag pushes to a monitoring and control system for the IT equipment of the schools, which is currently different, such as TAG24 reported.

A particularly serious problem: At about half of the 501 schools in Saxony, the IT systems are not always ready for use, which endangers the equal opportunities of the students. The effort to maintain these systems, mainly organized by teachers himself, is affected by immense lessons every year - exactly 6,246 hours that never take place in order to be precise. The government has painfully recognized that a personnel requirements determination in this critical situation must become a priority. In addition, the dependence on external consultants is increasingly to be used: in 2022 this practice cost 6.7 million euros more than in the previous year, as the MDR also noted.

Although a third of the apprenticeships are now equipped with digital display and interaction systems, the general backwardness in digitization remains a criticism. For example, the government plans to reduce the number of ministries from eleven to ten to reduce bureaucracy and save personnel - but whether these measures are sufficient to solve the increasingly acute problems of the Saxon educational institutions. The spirits of the lack of digital equipment and inefficient personnel policy are far from defeated!