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Trade unions and employers: 'Efficiency discount' must be from spring bill

The education unions and employers, united in the Education Foundation, have called on ministers Arie Slob and Ingrid van Engelshoven not to include new cutbacks in the spring memorandum.

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When drawing up the memorandum, the cabinet should also investigate the possibilities of scrapping the 'efficiency discount', which has been hanging over education for some time.

This reduction, in fact a cut of 183 million euros in total, dates back to the previous government term. The cutbacks should force school boards to work smarter. 'Different school boards will implement this task in different ways', Minister Van Engelshoven wrote earlier.

An efficiency discount has a counterproductive effect on the quality of education

According to the Foundation of Education in the light of the current situation – including the teacher shortage – a 'reconsideration' of the cutbacks is necessary. 'The pressure on employees in education, from primary to higher education, is high', the foundation writes in a letter to the ministers. Meeting the challenges requires investment – ​​not cutbacks. 'An efficiency discount has a counterproductive effect on the quality of education.'

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