A new opportunity for temporary teachers in Catalan schools to secure permanent positions. As ARA has learned, this Tuesday morning the Government informed the education unions that make up the sectoral committee that a new competitive examination will be opened in March with a thousand vacancies.

Governments change hands and ministers change, but the Department of Education repeatedly botches up its performance. Perhaps the political class isn't getting ahead. Or perhaps there's a structural problem of malfunctioning within the department. Perhaps both. The fact is that the department's poor governance of the school world only provides additional and recurring reasons for complaint to a profession already sufficiently prone to defeatism.