AOb demands of political education investment plan
'Invest in education and come up with a solid investment plan for the coming years.' That's the call that AObchairman Liesbeth Verheggen is doing politicians, prior to the 'teacher consultation', in the House of Representatives tomorrow.
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The political parties must come to an investment plan together, writes Increase. When drawing up the plan, politicians must break free from short-term solutions and, above all, look beyond government periods.
Issue
Considerable investments are desperately needed, de AOb. Expenditure per student has declined in recent years and there is a significant difference in salary between teaching staff and the market. The result is that education is struggling with teacher shortages, high absenteeism and unauthorized people standing in front of the classroom. 'This is at the expense of the quality of education and that is a social problem', Verheggen writes.
'If the Netherlands wants to continue to participate in the world's top economies, structural extra investment is necessary'
De AOb therefore hold an action week in March with a national strike day for all education sectors on 15 March to ask politicians to invest more, so that in all sectors a salary improvement is possible and functions of support staff can be re-evaluated. In addition, the workload must be reduced. A total of 4 billion euros is needed on a structural basis for all education sectors, from primary to university education. The AOb bet the investment plan an overview of which measures are needed and what the costs are per education sector.
In addition, Verheggen writes that the money should be used more sensibly and purposefully.
Together
In addition to its own letter, the AOb the room a joint letter, together with the other unions and the PO council, the representative of the primary school boards. In this letter, the educational organizations jointly plead for a salary increase and a recruitment campaign. “Good working conditions are essential to get more people into education,” says AObdirector Eugenie Stolk about this letter. “It starts with a fair and just salary. More investment is needed in education. That's why we went on strike on March 15th. ”
The debate is tomorrow from 11.15 am in the Lower House. You can follow the debate via the livestream. Would you like to know more about the promotions in March? Read this post.
