Three times as many over-65s in the classroom
More and more people over 65 are working in both primary and secondary education. In 2011, this group together filled 155 full-time teacher jobs, last year the counter was 918.
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In persons, the number of working pensioners has approximately tripled in six years. Which, by the way, does not help.
Because cannot these unofficial retirees, for example, make up for the teacher shortage? Data from Duo education data shows that they are also working more and more hours. From an average of 0,3 FTE (full-time equivalent) in 2011 to an average of 0,6 FTE in 2016.
Yet the answer is no, that is very unlikely. In primary education, this involves almost 600 people in a labor market where in 2016 more than 125 thousand teachers were employed. In the same year, 868 people aged 65 and over worked in secondary education out of a total of just over 75 thousand teachers. In short, drops on the ocean.
This month, the Education Magazine analyzes six solutions for the teacher shortage. Read the whole article here.
