Shock in Baden-Württemberg: 1,440 teaching positions lost by IT breakdown!

Shock in Baden-Württemberg: 1,440 teaching positions lost by IT breakdown!

Baden-Baden, Deutschland - A massive software error has caused vacant teaching positions in Baden-Württemberg for over 20 years. It is about 1,440 jobs that were incorrectly booked as occupied. Minister of Culture Theresa Schopper (Greens) now announced the distribution of the positions for the coming school year and emphasized that this situation shaked the credibility of the cultural administration. Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann described the events as a "serious mistake" and expressed concerns about trust in the state reports SWR .

How did this gravity come about? The software error, which goes back to 2005, occurred during a change in the personnel management program. As a result, vacant positions have been incorrectly identified over the years. The Ministry of Culture estimates that this incorrect statistics have grown by around 80 to 100 jobs annually Swr .

• Special educational and advisory centers: 485 jobs
• primary schools: 350 jobs
• community schools, secondary schools, high schools: 50 jobs each
• nine -year -old high school: 300 jobs (originally distributed)
• Expansion of the disease reserve: 155 jobs

Despite the measures taken, Schopper warns that the available 1,440 jobs mean only an additional position for every third school in the country. The Education and Science Union (GEW) therefore calls for a comprehensive concept for the future distribution of the jobs and an offensive to hire new teachers in order to reduce the burden of existing teachers. Außerdem sieht sich das Kultusministerium mit der Herausforderung konfrontiert, rund 4.000 Referendare, die mit Beginn der Sommerferien in die Sommerarbeitslosigkeit geschickt werden, schnellstmöglich in den Markt zu integrieren informiert ZDF .

outlook and measures

The state government does its best to eliminate the grievances that have arisen. A working group was launched, which deals with the improvement of controlling in the cultural administration and is also accompanied by the Court of Auditors. The aim is to avoid such IT errors in the future and to make the distribution of the vacancies more efficiently in order to secure the quality of the lessons in Baden-Württemberg in the long term ZDF .