The Ministry of Education has published this Wednesday, at about 1:30 in the morning, the list of the teaching awards for Secondary Interim and Vocational Training (FP) technicians who had to move on to Secondary, after the work of the computer scientists during all day.
With this publication, all the teaching awards for the 2023-2024 school year, which starts on September 11, would already be resolved. At UGT-PV they are analyzing the claims that are coming in from numerous people, since they have detected a disorder that was previously unknown. "We ask for the modernization of our computer system," they point out from the UGT.
Last Friday, Education published the list of awards for Primary and Secondary career officials and special bodies such as the Official School of Languages (EOI), conservatories and dance centers, after which this Monday issued the Interim Infant and Primary .
Early this Tuesday, the places of 12,600 interims were yet to be awarded, although the problem was materialized in the teachers of the FP technical staff who, by decree, go to Secondary and that add up to 1,072.
As explained by the Ministry, the latter are the ones where the system failed, but the lists had to come out with all included. In addition, from the department of Rovira (PP) they insisted that the situation is the consequence of computer problems derived from "lack of foresight" and "preparation of tools" of the previous government of the Botànic -in which Education depended on Compromís- despite of the recommendation of the ICT team of the Valencian government. However, from the UGT-PV they do not give credibility to this argument, since the current Consell has kept the ICT general director, from the Botànic, in office. "The argument is not sustained," they point out.
In this process, the teachers' unions have criticized the delay in the publication of the awards and have held concentrations at the headquarters of the Ministry of Education in Valencia. They went there this Tuesday to denounce that the teaching staff "has already exploded" as a result of the problems in the allocation of places and is "distressed" because on August 22, about to start the school year, the process had not concluded for the interns.
Furthermore, the representatives of STEPV, CCOO and UGT accused Education of causing an "unjustifiable" and "unsustainable" management crisis and creating a "very serious" and "unprecedented" situation that had never occurred with other changes in Government.
On behalf of the Ministry, the deputy general director of Personnel, Josep Pascual Hernández, assured this Tuesday that the lines of solution to the problem "are already looming." As he explained, the adjudications that "caused the most problems" were those of FP technical teachers because when they joined the Secondary school, "the computer tool was not prepared or tested and these mismatches have been what have generated this situation".
Due to the computer problem, he lamented, when "everything is ready, it goes wrong again." "It is evident that if this had been planned, possibly in three or four months or even in half a year, it could have been resolved. But evidently when we got there we found ourselves faced with all the tasks that remained pending and with the computer tool that was without power apply", he maintained, and pointed out that the program used for the adjudication process dates from 1999 and "has not been adapted to the new situations".
Since the opposition, both PSPV and Compromís have charged against the delay in the awards. The Socialists accused the 'president' of the Generalitat, the 'popular' Carlos Mazón, of putting the start of school "in serious danger" because "more than 20,000 teachers are going through hell" and "many still do not know where they will teach." "There are ten days left until the course begins and Mazón is still on vacation in full chaos," said his trustee in Les Corts, Rebeca Torró.
Along the same lines, Compromís demanded from Mazón the immediate resignation of the general director of Teaching Staff, Sonia Sancho, due to the "collapse" in the allocations" of teachers and "out of respect for the 21,000 affected teachers". "First he signed a purge ideological ideology of technicians who is also at the origin of the collapse and then left without even sitting down for a day in his new office," denounced his spokesman for Education in Les Corts, Gerard Fullana.
