Make agreements about the recruitment of teachers short courses

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School boards must make agreements together so that they do not have to bid against each other to recruit teachers. That is the answer to the outgoing State Secretary Dekker of Education last Tuesday to parliamentary questions from the SP.

Member of Parliament Peter Kwint wanted to know from the State Secretary what he thought of the job advertisement from Andreas College in Katwijk. Maths teachers who come to teach at that school receive a welcome bonus of 10 thousand euros. Dekker encourages school boards to make agreements about the filling of vacancies. 'I see many good examples of this, for example a joint regional vacancy website', writes Dekker.

Employment agencies

In Education Magazine 11 of 3 June 2017, the article stated: 'Battle for Math Teachers'. That article also discussed employment agencies that offer lease cars, bonuses and permanent contracts with an LD salary. MP Kwint also wanted to know what Dekker thinks of such methods for recruiting teachers.

The State Secretary believes that school boards are themselves responsible for ensuring that there is sufficient staff. 'A suitable solution can be recruiting through a recruitment agency, for example for short-term replacement,' says Dekker. The State Secretary does, however, write that he will be talking to the VO Council about a central registration of posted workers in education.

Sprinkle with bonuses

AObchairman Liesbeth Verheggen previously indicated that lower work pressure and a better salary are the solution. And don't sprinkle with bonuses. 'Do you have any idea what the consequences are of such a bonus in the teachers' rooms, where there are also teachers who do not coincidentally teach in a shortage subject', says Verheggen in the Education Magazine.