In this logic, a teacher’s position will be given priority to a candidate with the so -called “required” title. Thus, as an example, hours of mathematics in secondary school will preferably be allocated to a candidate with a master’s degree in mathematics and aggregation.
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If no candidate with this profile is available, the function will then go to a candidate with a so -called “sufficient” title, for example a master’s degree in physics to give this math course.
If no candidate with a required or sufficient title can be found, the legislation then provides for the Job to a candidate with a so-called “shortage” title, that is to say only a “minimum” disciplinary component with the material to be taught.
Finally, if no candidate can be found, the job to be filled can then in desperation be assigned to a candidate called “not listed”, that is to say without a diploma in connection with the material to be taught or pedagogy.
According to administration figures, in 2024, only 53% of new teachers in teaching (all types and levels combined) had the required title. A figure in constant decline: in 2016, the “required titles” still had for 71% of first-time REACTURES in FWB.
The number of “sufficient titles” is more or less stable, oscillating between 10 and 12%. On the other hand, the “shortage titles” went from 8% to 11% between 2016 and 2024, while the proportion of “not listed” exploded, going from 10 to 25% over this same period.
-Angry teachers are looking for government to listen: “For twenty years, we have been tightening the belt”
On the side of the cabinet of the Minister of Education Valérie Glatigny (MR), we avoided too much pouring out on these new disturbing statistics: “We are all well aware that we are facing a shortage of teachers”.
It is also to try to remedy it that the government decided in January to launch working groups with actors in the sector to improve the attractiveness of the profession, it is recalled.
The new MR-ENGAGAGE government has made the fight against the shortage of teachers its “number 1 political priority” for the legislature.
For this purpose, he has already adopted a series of measures, such as the extension of the pool of replacement teachers launched under the previous legislature, better valuation of seniority for second career teachers or the possibility for retired teachers to continue to teach on a voluntary basis, etc.
In conflict for years with successive governments, teaching unions attribute this disaffection of the profession to the general degradation of working conditions, the administrative overload that weighs on teachers, or even overcrowded classes.
For unions, the desire for the new majority Mr-Engagues to put an end to the statization of teachers will only increase the current shortage. On the contrary, the government ensures that the rapid granting of indefinite contracts to new teachers will keep them in the profession.
