End-Of-The-Year Survey Claims There Are Enough Educational Jobs In Schools For New Teachers

A survey that came out in December of 2012 proved that there are enough jobs for newly qualified teachers. The survey indicated a rise of almost 15% which was greatly encouraging for those still in teaching training colleges who have been thinking that they may have to go abroad to secure a permanent job. With this figure, the job openings presented to foreign teachers, and the changes that the Ministry of Education is implementing, it really does seem like that there are enough education jobs in schools for everybody seeking to pursue a professional teaching career and earn from it.

Analysts still claim that the current figure lays down a solid foundation for a positive trajectory for the next couple of years - with the new accommodations of the ministry, the increasing number of students due to emigration, and the need for fresh teachers who are more skilled in using the latest technologies utilised for teaching, the future looks promising.

Great attention, however, is given to the subjects that trainee teachers are specialising in. According to analysts, the great demand is from Math and Science subjects which a lot of trainee teachers are actually not keen on studying and specialising in. The Ministry is hoping that more education majors would choose these subjects to specialise in because, for the time being, a big percentage of teaching posts for these subjects are filled by foreign teachers.

The Ministry is actually encouraging high performing computer science (CS) graduates to take up teaching to elevate the level of instruction for Science and Math subjects. News came out early this year that £20,000 worth of scholarships are to be given to CS students who would choose to teach instead of work in other industries. With this strategy, instead of getting supply teachers from abroad to fill the teaching posts for these subjects, local teachers may be given higher priority (which, of course, would impact the percentages game).

Despite this good progress, analysts still claim that more changes have to be employed to create the most ideal conditions when it comes to creating a balanced demand and supply situation for the teaching industry. Salary and benefits are just some of the components that need to be improved so those who are trained teachers actually go into teaching. But for now, the survey has done a great job in reviving hope, and with the end of the school year just around the corner, whether the survey was accurate or not, new teachers will likely have a more positive attitude in searching for a teaching job.

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