Math, biology, physics, chemistry, computer science: 50 teaching positions in these subjects have been advertised several times at rural regional schools in MV without success. Now a surcharge on the salary should attract applicants.
Schwerin (dpa/mv) – From the coming school year, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania will grant a subsidy to new teachers who will take up a position in rural areas that is particularly difficult to fill. The subsidy amounts to 424.25 euros gross per month for four years, as Minister of Education Simone Oldenburg (left) said on Monday in Schwerin. This corresponds to ten percent of the basic salary.
The award will be granted to teachers who are newly employed in the state’s school system and who accept a position as a mathematics, computer science, biology, chemistry or physics teacher at a regional school in a rural area that has been advertised several times without success. Everything outside the cities of Rostock, Schwerin, Neubrandenburg, Stralsund, Greifswald and Wismar is considered to be a rural area.
According to Oldenburg, the program applies to 50 jobs – that’s how many there are currently in MV to which the criteria mentioned apply. A good 250,000 euros are available from the budget per year, and there have been agreements with the Ministry of Finance on this. It will not be deleted elsewhere, she emphasized.
The first positions with the contract, which are marked with a euro sign in the tender portal on the Internet, will be activated this Tuesday, according to the information. “We’re trying everything possible,” Oldenburg said of the recent attempt to recruit teachers. There is a shortage of teachers nationwide. The number of young people of university age is not enough to compensate for the large number of age-related departures from the teachers’ rooms in the coming years.
The minister illustrated with a few examples how great the shortage of teachers in the natural sciences is, particularly at regional schools in rural areas. At the regional school in Wolgast (Vorpommern-Greifswald district), for example, a position for math and physics has already been advertised eleven times unsuccessfully, in Hagenow (Ludwigslust-Parchim district) a position for a biology teacher nine times, in Mühlen-Eichsen (Northwest Mecklenburg) for a position Biology and Chemistry five times.
