​Education Minister promises to negotiate teachers’ career time

Education Minister João Costa hopes that the third period in schools will be more peaceful and guarantees that negotiations on matters that the unions consider essential, including the length of the teachers’ career, will advance.

The official spoke to journalists to present the new model for placing and recruiting teachers, already approved by the Council of Ministers.

This model was discussed with the unions, which, however, did not approve the document because they considered that the main demands of the sector’s professionals were not met.

The Minister of Education assures that they will “start a new phase of dialogue with the unions on exactly these matters” and anticipates that “ideally, we will be able to find meeting points with the union organizations and, ideally, we will reach a third period with much more tranquility” .

On the new model of recruiting and linking teachers, João Costa reaffirms that from now on teachers will be able to link as vacancies become available.

João Costa anticipates, for example, that soon there will be many vacancies in schools in the north of the country, which will allow many teachers who have been relocated to the south to get closer to residence.

“We know from the forecast of retirements that very soon we will have a high volume of retirements in the North and, therefore, several places will emerge in the north of the country that may be occupied every year by these teachers who have a much more agile instrument here than they had before. until now for the approximation to the residence”, he describes.