Scary figures: summer has started and the teacher shortage is already raging
The school year has barely ended, and already more than 2,500 job advertisements for teachers have appeared on the public sector job portal, Népszava reported. Most of the jobs were advertised by school district centres, mainly for teachers, teachers and kindergarten teachers. The dumping following the end of the school year also highlights the seriousness of the shortage of teachers: in primary schools alone, there are more than 12,000 teachers over 60, while half as many under 30.
On 24 June, a total of 1,060 advertisements could be found for the word "teacher", 1,021 for "educator" and 479 offers for "teacher", Népszava reports.
The Klebelsberg Centre, which supervises school districts, usually explains the rise in the number of advertisements after the end of the school year by the fact that teachers usually change jobs at the end of the school year and during the summer holidays, so the number of advertised jobs is higher at that time.
In the first quarter of 2025, there were 6,799 vacancies in the education sector.
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