Education opens 1,140 places for the teaching competitive examinations for next year

BarcelonaThe Department of Education announced this Thursday a new call for civil service examinations with 1,140 teaching positions, mostly for secondary education, to “continue with the stabilization of the staff,” as reported in a statement. Of the total positions offered, 946 correspond to the body of secondary education teachers (that is, almost 83%), 168 more to the body of primary teachers (14%), and 26 (3%) for teachers at official language schools. The specialties with the most positions will be Catalan language and literature, Spanish language and literature, and mathematics.

Although it has not yet been detailed from when the application can be made to opt for these exams, the Government does indicate that participation requests may be submitted within 10 business days starting from the day after the publication of the resolution in the Official Gazette of the Generalitat of Catalonia (DOGC) and the procedure will end before the end of June 2027. According to the department, this calendar will allow the centers' staffing to be communicated “with enough time” so that they can be managed “appropriately”.

In this new call for secondary education examinations, positions will be announced for a total of 23 specialties. Those with the most positions announced are Catalan language and literature, with 251 positions; Spanish language and literature (145) and mathematics (143); as well as some secondary education specialties: music (63), administrative management processes (62), English (60), and technology (57). These are the specialties in which the Department of Education “has verified that there is a higher need for teaching professionals”.

Regarding the rest of the positions offered, they correspond to subjects such as commercial processes (52); physical education (45); commercial organization and management (44); geography and history (40); business administration (38); economics (30); community services (25); Latin (21); socio-community intervention (20); Catalan (12); mechanical manufacturing organization and projects (11); Greek (7); English (6); Spanish (4); Italian (3) and modern Greek (1).

Accreditation of C2 Catalan level

The novelty this year, as advanced by l’ARA, is that to participate in the competitive examinations the accreditation of the C2 level of Catalan will be mandatory. In the event that the teacher does not have the title, they will be able to continue the competition by certifying that they have “sufficient competence” with a specific Catalan test of a level equivalent to C2.

This requirement for teaching staff is a historic debt that had never been applied effectively. In fact, one only needs to look at the last call for teaching competitive exams from last year to see that in the linguistic field, the requirement was to certify the C1 proficiency level of the Catalan language, that is, the level of Catalan that is obtained automatically if you have completed all of ESO in Catalonia. On the other hand, the C2 of Catalan added points as "merits", despite not being mandatory.