First steps taken to combat teacher shortage
The first steps to combat the teacher shortage have been taken. Both the House of Representatives and the Ministry of Education are working on the subject. GroenLinks submitted a motion tonight in which the party asks for a plan with solutions for the long term. Exactly where the AOb has been advocating for some time.
Picture: House of Representatives
In the motion, GroenLinks asks the government for a long-term delta plan that takes into account the coherence of measures. The plan must state clearly what result is to be achieved. According to the party, this is badly needed because the government has announced various plans without a concrete calculation of the expected results.
Majority
AObchairperson Liesbeth Verheggen hopes that a majority of the House will adopt the motion. “We must bring together measures in a multi-year plan to combat the teacher shortage in a sustainable and structural way,” says Verheggen. “This is a first step from the House. We've been asking for this for over a year."
AObchairperson Liesbeth Verheggen: “We must bring together measures in a multi-year plan to combat the teacher shortage in a sustainable and structural way.”
De AOb calls for a plan in which the cabinet will make investments. Steps have been taken with regard to workload, but now it is the turn of the salary to make the profession more attractive. “The minister's current plan is mainly for the shorter term,” says Verheggen. "It would be good if the duration of the various measures became more visible." The AOb wants better measurement, monitoring and evaluation when measures have been introduced. For example, with the intake of teacher training courses and the dropout from these training courses, so that targeted intervention can be made.
Conversations
Verheggen does think it is positive that the Ministry of Education is now also taking the first steps in the teacher shortage dossier. The AOb brought one on this topic last week position paper in official interviews. In addition, the ministry has planned the first talks in the region to see how bad the teacher shortage is there and to get a better picture of everything. "It is very good that the ministry has now started doing this, because classes are sent home every day," says Verheggen.
