Schools are still looking for teachers for around 400 timetables that remain empty, with IT, Portuguese and Mathematics teachers being the most sought after, according to an analysis carried out by school director Arlindo Ferreira.
This Friday, September 1st, the results of the first reserve recruitment were known, which allowed schools to hire almost three thousand teachers.
"A total of 1.769 teachers were hired for full and incomplete hours and another 1.006 staff teachers", Professor Arlindo Ferreira, a specialist in education statistics, told Lusa.
However, he added, there is still a lack of teachers, especially in the Lisbon metropolitan area, maintaining the pattern of last week.
This week, for example, almost a third of the hired teachers stayed at a school in the Lisbon and Setúbal Peninsula area (known as QZP 7), underlined the director of the Cego do Maio School Grouping (Póvoa de Varzim).
The figures show that 558 teachers were placed this week in QZP 7 schools, which is «more than double those who were placed in QZP 01», which corresponds to the north coast, covering Braga, Viana do Castelo, Tâmega and Porto.
By 17 pm yesterday, the day the 00nd recruitment reserve starts, school directors had already advertised around 2 timetables, «but this number will probably continue to increase», revealed Arlindo Ferreira.
By mid-afternoon yesterday, the subjects with the most empty timetables were Information Technology (33 timetables), Mathematics for 3rd cycle and secondary students (32 timetables), Portuguese for 3rd cycle and secondary (31 timetables), Physics -Chemistry (27) and, finally, Biology and Geology, English and History (the three with 24 hours to fill).
Arlindo Ferreira also underlined the fact that, week after week, the number of annual timetables for the Portuguese and Mathematics recruitment groups is increasing.
Last week six timetables were missing in Portuguese for 3rd cycle and secondary students and now there are 31 and Mathematics went from 14 to 32, according to a table made by Arlindo Ferreira, based on data provided by schools.
The Minister of Education João Costa announced last week that 95% of the requests made by the schools had been fulfilled, which corresponded to the placement of almost 13 thousand teachers.
The lack of teachers in schools, caused in part by the aging of the class and the unattractiveness of the profession among younger people, led the Government to allow schools to select teachers with recognized courses as qualifications for teaching.
Meanwhile, the National Federation of Teachers also warned of the increase in students without all the teachers assigned, a situation that Fenprof estimates will worsen with the estimated departure of another thousand teachers for reform by the end of the year.
«The lack of teachers this year will be a more serious problem than in previous years», warned yesterday the general secretary of Fenprof, Mário Nogueira, defending that this school year «non-professional teachers and the number of students without all teachers”.
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