2023-04-23 06:17:00
Mid- to long-term teacher supply and demand plan announced this week
As the number of new teachers hired decreased due to a decrease in the school age population, the elementary school employment test pass rate fell below 50% last year. Within this week, the government plans to announce a mid- to long-term teacher supply and demand plan that further reduces the number of new teachers. Reducing the quota of training institutions that train teachers, such as colleges of education and private schools, seems inevitable.
According to the Korea Educational Development Institute’s 2022 education statistics analysis data book on the 23rd, 7338 people applied for the national elementary school teacher appointment test in 2022, and 3565 (48.6%) passed. It is the first time since 2013 that the pass rate for elementary school teacher appointments has fallen below half. The acceptance rate for elementary school teacher appointments fell to the 30% range in the 2010-2013 school year when the number of new appointments plummeted, but remained in the upper 60% range in the 2014-2017 school year. As the competition rate soared once more, the acceptance rate fell to 63.9% in the 2018 school year, 57.3% in the 2019 school year, 53.9% in the 2020 school year, and 50.8% in the 2021 school year.
Although new appointments have decreased due to a decrease in the school-age population, the number of applicants for appointments has not decreased that much, and the competition rate continues to rise. The number of successful applicants for appointment decreased by 8.7% on average from 7,369 in 2014 to 3,565 last year, but the number of applicants for appointment during the same period decreased only by 4.5% on average from 10,638 to 7,338. By region, Gwangju (13.6%) had the lowest pass rate, followed by Seoul (29.8%), Daejeon (33.3%), and Sejong (33.8%). Compared to provincial areas, it seems that applicants also flocked to metropolitan cities, where schools are concentrated and the work environment is good.
Within this week, the government plans to announce a mid- to long-term teacher supply and demand plan for 2024-2027 that will adjust the scale of new teacher recruitment in line with the decline in the school-age population. According to the National Statistical Office’s future population projections, the population of elementary school age in 2027 will be 2.02 million, 25.2% less than last year (2.701 million). The power of the government and the people revealed at the party-government consultation on the 17th that “the quota of teacher training institutions must also be adjusted so that the teacher manpower can be efficiently operated.” high portential. However, the number of teachers is not expected to decrease as much as the decrease in the school-age population, as the education community is protesting that the number of teachers should not be reduced for the high school credit system or basic academic support, and the government believes that more teachers are needed for digital education.
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