Around 900 teachers obtain a position in Education in the Canary Islands

A total of 870 people have obtained a place in the selection processes convened by the Ministry of Education, Vocational Training, Physical Activity and Sports, led by Poli Suárez, whose tests have been held in recent weeks.

According to data from the Directorate General of Personnel and Teacher Training, coordinated by Mónica Ramírez, this number represents 58.59% of the 1,485 people who passed the opposition phase and 10.69% of the 8,137 who submitted applications. 

With these figures and the incorporation of these officials in training on September 1, "we continue to advance in the objective of reducing the temporality of our teaching staff, since the vast majority of people who obtain a place continue to be interim staff of the Autonomous Community," explains Ramírez, who has thanked "the courts and the service staff for their effort during the weeks the tests lasted" and congratulated the new officials on the stage they are now beginning. 

Bodies and specialties

Specifically, in the body of Teachers, 683 people obtained one of the 686 places offered, and 1,302 out of 6,696 applicants passed the opposition phase (19.4% of those who attended the presentation), while in the bodies of Secondary Education Teachers, Plastic Arts and Design, and Official Language Schools, as well as in Vocational Training Specific Sectors Specialist Teachers, 164 aspirants did so, compared to 179 who passed the opposition (14.2% of the 1,265 applicants). Finally, in the bodies of Music and Performing Arts, 23 out of 104 who passed obtained a place (59.1% of the 176 applicants). 

By specialties, in Teachers, one hundred percent (all places) of Primary Education (215), Special Education-Therapeutic Pedagogy (120), Early Childhood Education (110), English (91), Physical Education (65), Music (37), and Hearing and Language (25) are filled, while in French, 87% of the places convened are filled (20 out of 23).  

In the bodies of Music and Performing Arts, all convened places (23) are also filled, which were in the specialties of Piano (four places), Composition (three), Chamber Music, Pedagogy, and Saxophone (with two places in each), Improvisation and Accompaniment, Piano, Harp, Singing, Harpsichord, Choir, Flute, Viola, Violin, and Cello (with one place for each of them). 

Finally, in the rest of bodies (Secondary Education Teachers, Plastic Arts and Design, EOI and Specialists in Singular Sectors of Vocational Training), all the announced positions are filled in the specialties of Sound and Image Techniques and Procedures (13), Construction Project Office (12), Machining and Machine Maintenance (six), Welding (five), Volume and Interior Design (four places in both cases) and Audiovisual Media (three).

In addition, 94.1 percent of the offered positions in Clinical Diagnostic and Orthoprosthetic Procedures are filled (16 out of 17 announced positions); 87.5 percent of Electronic Equipment (14 out of 16); 77.8 percent of Spanish for Foreigners (EOI) (seven out of nine positions) and 75% of those in Computer Media (three out of four).

Likewise, 70 percent (7 out of 10 positions) of Woodworking and Furniture Manufacturing and Installation are filled; 62.5 percent (5 out of 8) of Clinical Diagnostic Processes and Orthoprosthetic Products, and 60 percent of the positions offered in the specialties of Agricultural Production Processes (9 out of 15 positions) and Industrial Chemistry and Analysis (6 out of 10).

Finally, 57.6 percent of the positions in Administrative Management Processes are filled (38 out of the 66 offered); 55.6 percent of Energy Systems Organization and Projects (5 out of 9); 29.9 percent of Installation and Maintenance of Thermal and Fluid Equipment (7 out of 26).

The process has included novelties, such as the reading, in the opposition for Teachers, a public and mandatory act where each applicant had to read their written exam aloud, and which "has provided additional elements of judgment for the tribunals, and has been positively valued by both the applicants and the tribunals themselves that we have been able to consult," according to Mónica Ramírez.