The Department of Education has already corrected the error it made last week. with my soul in my heart to thousands of teachers throughout Catalonia. An incident caused a pool of 57,000 teaching and professor positions for the next academic year that were supposed to be awarded to civil servants to end up being assigned to temporary staff, forcing the entire process to be redone less than two months before the start of the new academic year. The Regional Minister of Education, Esther Niubó, reassured teachers and families this weekend and assured them that the academic year would begin normally, after pointing out that behind this mess was "the intervention of a person who made a unilateral decision" that "violated regulations." This Monday afternoon, the department published the allocation of provisional positions. which you can consult here.

The 2025/26 school year will start normally. This was confirmed by the Minister of Education, Esther Niubó, in an interview on Catalunya Ràdio. The head of the department stated that after the error that has invalidated the allocation of 57,000 places The teaching staff is concerned about "the intervention of a person who made a unilateral decision" that "violated regulations." Someone ignored the department's resolutions and caused "serious incidents": 800 positions that should have been filled by civil servants were instead reserved for temporary teachers. Following complaints from some teachers, the Education Department halted the process and will announce the new assignments early next week after working all weekend to resolve the situation. In total, some 3,000 teachers out of 57,000 candidates will see their assignments change. However, according to Niubó, it will be for the better: "Given the exclusion of these 800 positions, it will improve."

Less than two months before the start of the school year, the Department of Education has halted the allocation of teaching and professor positions for the next academic year, which was due to close this week, and has admitted that it will have to start the entire process from scratch. According to the report, The Vanguard As ARA has been able to confirm, the reason behind this decision is that there has been a "detection of unjustified incidents" that have led to a pool of positions that were supposed to be awarded to civil servants being assigned to temporary staff. All of this requires a redo of the entire allocation process, which cannot be completed until at least next week. This year, there were at least 50,000 positions at stake.