More professionals to strengthen inclusive education, more reception classrooms for newly arrived students, and more investment to renovate educational centers. These are some of the main novelties with which the 2026-2027 academic year begins in Catalonia, which starts with a forecast of more than 1.6 million students and 94,422 professionals in educational centers.In total, the system incorporates 1,830 new positions compared to last academic year: 1,103 teachers, 531 educational support professionals, and 196 administrative and service staff. The reinforcement focuses especially on attention to diversity and welcoming, but it also reaches physical spaces: seven centers will debut a new building or expansion, and investment in educational infrastructure is recovering levels not seen since 2008, according to the Department of Education and Vocational Training of the Generalitat.The Minister of Education and Vocational Training, Esther Niubó, has highlighted that these resources must allow for the incorporation into classrooms of “the greatest reinforcement of resources to strengthen the system and improve attention to the needs of the students”. According to the minister, the agreements that make this possible have mobilized 2.6 billion euros.More professionals for the inclusive school

One of the main commitments of the new school year is to strengthen the teams that serve students with diverse educational needs. The system incorporates 531 new educational support staff positions, distributed among profiles such as educators and social integrators, social workers, speech therapists, and special education teachers. The goal is to expand support within the centers and provide more tools to adapt the care to the needs of each student. A significant part of this increase is concentrated directly on inclusive education. Among the new additions are 146 special education teachers assigned to SIEI and SIEI+, the intensive supports that reinforce mainstream centers to attend to students with special educational needs; 100 social integrators in educational centers and 56 social workers and speech therapists in the psycho-pedagogical assessment and guidance teams.

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