Employees of banks and insurance companies receive help with the switch to education
Employees of banks and insurance companies who are considering a job as a teacher will receive help with the transition to education. The AOb criticizes this party of 'eight white men in suits'.
Image: Front Covenant 'Getting started for the class'
The Dutch Banking Association, the Dutch Association of Insurers, the PO council, VO council, MBO council, Association of Universities of Applied Sciences, Association of Universities (VSNU) and the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science signed yesterday the covenant 'Getting started in front of the class'.
In January, the Ministry of Education published new figures showing that the shortage of teachers is still increasing. The signatories work together to guide interested and possibly redundant employees of banks and insurance companies in their (partial) transition to a job as a teacher and thus offer them a new career perspective. With an orientation process, interested employees can investigate whether they are suitable for the profession. They are then offered tailor-made teacher training.
The signatories work together to guide interested and potentially redundant employees of banks and insurance companies in the transition to a teaching job
The collaboration builds according to the press release continues on earlier regional initiatives, in which Rabobank, Nationale-Nederlanden, asr and de Volksbank, among others, were already involved, with the aim of raising the cooperation to a national level.
Inappropriate
De AOb considers it logical, on the one hand, that employees who become redundant at banks are helped to find work elsewhere. "From job to job - that's good employment practices," says AOb-chairman Liesbeth Verheggen. But it's not a reason for a party of 'eight white men in suits'. "Please don't suggest that this will solve the teacher shortage. Furthermore, the minister is now making a good impression nationally, while we in the region are working hard together with the school boards to cope with the shortages. And that is only for the short term : in the long term, only less work pressure and a higher salary will help against the teacher shortages."
Frank Cörvers, of the Maastricht Research Center for Education and the Labor Market, also has his doubts. Due to automation, mainly administrative jobs are disappearing in the financial sector. And that often does not include highly educated people, and certainly not the sciences, Germanists or Dutchmen that schools are looking for, he tells NRC Handelsblad. Cörvers: 'It often doesn't match well.'
