Teachers are lacking in Portugal and hiring is increasingly difficult
The shortage of teachers in Portugal and it may soon be difficult to hire teachers, in particular, for the public, advance the National Council of Education.
In the next seven years, about 20 thousand teachers will enter the reform, and, in higher education, there is a lack of interest in courses related to education.
With supply and demand decreasing, the National Education Council issues the warning:
“If the trend continues, there may be some difficulty in hiring duly qualified teachers in the near future.”
Retired teachers have been increasing steadily since 2015, with more than 15% of public school teachers aged 60 or over. Over the next seven years, more than 19,000 retirees will retire.
From kindergarten to higher education, the lines trace a less than encouraging destination: there are fewer and fewer teachers.
Hope turns to the new generations, however, in universities, there are still no great signs of optimism.
The courses in the area of “Education” were the ones that registered the biggest drop in enrollments, almost six thousand in the decade, with the latest business sciences, Administration and Law being the most sought after areas.
Much of the lack of interest in the teaching profession is fueled by the instability that a profession represents for a large number of professionals.
Salary and the challenge of scaling the career are factors that also weigh on the career: almost half of the teachers are paid, however, in a total of 1 teacher.
At the top, very few freezes arrive – less and less after the times during the Troika period.
Currently, only 16% of the teachers are on the roster check: on average, they all have more than 60 years of service, a maximum of around 2,400 euros net.
Those who are still on the base have, on average, almost 16 years of service and over 45 years of age.