Urgent COVID-19 measures for non-university education in Spain

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1. It allows, exceptionally, appointing as interim civil servants people who lack the postgraduate teacher training master's degree, if the lists of candidates holding that degree are exhausted and only for positions created because of the pandemic. Those positions are eliminated at the end of the school year in which the need disappears.
2. Selection processes to stabilize temporary teaching jobs, based on public job offers published between 2017 and 2021, follow the criteria of the third transitional provision of the rules for entering the teaching corps.
3. The assessable learning standards become indicative only, and education authorities and schools may exceptionally modify the criteria for evaluation, promotion and graduation in primary school, secondary school, bachillerato and vocational training. Repeating a year is treated as exceptional, and graduation no longer depends on having no failed subjects.
4. The final evaluations of primary education and compulsory secondary education are eliminated, starting in the 2020-2021 school year and indefinitely. In addition, any day with educational support for students, in person or remote, counts as a school day.
5. In vocational training, arts education, sports education and language studies, exceptional measures are allowed: reducing the workplace training module to the minimum, replacing company placements with activities linked to the work environment, or adapting promotion and certification criteria.
6. In private non-university schools, while the pandemic lasts, people who meet all requirements except the pedagogical training may teach. In occupational certificates, the practical training module is made flexible when it cannot be done at a company.

Who it affects

• Interim teachers and applicants without the pedagogical training master's degree: They can be exceptionally appointed to positions created by the pandemic, with the same status as interim staff; permanent entry will later require meeting all requirements.
• Students in primary, secondary, bachillerato and vocational training: Evaluation, promotion and graduation criteria are adapted, and the final evaluations of primary and secondary school disappear.
• Students in vocational training, arts, sports and language programs: Company placements and promotion and certification criteria are made flexible.
• Private non-university schools: They can hire teachers without the required pedagogical training while the pandemic lasts.
• Education authorities of the regions: They are empowered to apply these exceptional measures in their territory.

Words worth knowing

Funcionario interino (interim civil servant)

A person temporarily appointed to a position until a career civil servant fills it.

Estándares de aprendizaje evaluables (assessable learning standards)

Descriptions of what students must know or be able to do at the end of each stage, used to check learning.

Módulo de formación en centros de trabajo (workplace training module)

The part of vocational training completed through internships at a company.

Certificado de profesionalidad (occupational certificate)

An official certificate of job skills within Spain's employment training system.

Estabilización del empleo temporal (stabilization of temporary employment)

The process of turning positions held temporarily for years into permanent ones, through a competitive exam or contest.

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