The school year 2022/23 will start next Monday in the Pitiusas with a total of 21,331 students (20,161 on Ibiza and 1,170 on Formentera) enrolled in public and subsidized schools. Last school year began with just 24 more students than now, but it should be noted that this figure may change in the coming days, as the enrollment process is still open. This academic year begins with the new Lomloe model, based on teaching by competencies, which puts the student at the center of learning, and begins to be applied in Infant levels and in the odd numbered years of Primary, Secondary and Baccalaureate. To this end, several training courses have been launched for teachers to adapt to the new regulations.
These are data provided by the Regional Ministry of Education, which speaks of the course of “normality”, after two years with restrictions due to the pandemic. Even so, the conseller of the sector, Martà March, launched a message yesterday for the beginning of the course: “It would be important that the kids who have not been vaccinated yet to do so”. March also stressed the arrival of families from other autonomous communities, which allow their children to join the education system and “compensate” the fall in the birth rate in the archipelago. In this line, he said that “the repetition rate has fallen and the pass rate has increased”, in reference to the fact that the islands are attractive in terms of the level of training.
Schools strengthened with more teachers
One of the major announcements by the conseller was the incorporation of more teachers for the 2022/23 course. “We have consolidated all the teachers hired during the pandemic,” he said. Thus, Ibiza will have 2,091 teachers (70 more than last year), of which 1,908 are in public schools and the rest in subsidized schools. The number of professionals also increases in Formentera. There will be four more than the previous year, so there will be a total of 152: 147 in public schools and five in private schools.
Likewise, the Pitiusas islands will have more specialist teachers. Ibiza goes from 180 teachers last year to 205 and Formentera from 13 to 16. As for counselors, the figure remains at 27.5. “Since 2017 we are taking out oppositions every course, except in 2020, and we have managed to decrease the number of interims. It is planned to hold oppositions next year and the following year. This has two advantages: professional stability and it will allow the continuity of educational projects,” said March.
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