Education will incorporate about 3,300 teachers to reinforce the next course

The council makes the unions participate in the protocol for the start of the course

July 22 2020 (19:52 WEST)
Updated in July 22 2020 (20:02 WEST)
The Minister of Education of the Government of the Canary Islands, Manuela Armas, holds a telematic meeting with trade union organizations
The Minister of Education of the Government of the Canary Islands, Manuela Armas, holds a telematic meeting with trade union organizations

The Ministry of Education of the Government of the Canary Islands will incorporate around 800 teachers for the Infant and Primary levels and about 2,500 for Compulsory Secondary Education, Baccalaureate and other educational levels, with the aim of reinforcing the human resources destined to the beginning of the next course.

This was announced by the Minister of the area, Manuela Armas, who this Wednesday held a meeting with unions to share the details of the Prevention and organization protocol for the development of educational activity in non-university education centers for the next course.

In the meeting, the Minister informed the representatives of the union organizations with competences in educational matters of the most outstanding aspects of these guidelines that will regulate the face-to-face educational activity during the next course and that have been prepared jointly with the Ministry of Health.

During the meeting, the Minister explained to the union representatives that the Protocol is "an open and living document that has been developed in the midst of a changing scenario as a result of the evolution of the pandemic",

For this reason, she requested the collaboration of all agents of the educational community, including unions, to make the contributions they deem appropriate in order to improve the final text. Next week they will be summoned again to analyze the proposal for an increase in the teaching staff.

Armas recalled that the Canary Islands is the seventh autonomous community to address the design of a protocol of these characteristics and pledged to send the text to the union representatives during the next few hours.

The president of the ANPE Canarias union, Pedro Crespo, was one of the participants in the meeting, where he conveyed his discomfort to the Minister for not having the union organizations to prepare this protocol.

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