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Canary Islands open school year with 763 more teachers
The Canary Islands’ Department of Education, Vocational Training, Physical Activity and Sport has begun the 2026/2027 school year with a teaching workforce of 29,254, an increase of 763 staff compared with the start of the previous academic year, when 28,491 professionals were recorded. The regional minister for the department, Poli Suárez, highlighted the figure on Tuesday during his appearance before the Parliament of the Canary Islands, where he took stock of the start of the school year and set out, among other matters, the reinforcement of human resources and the appointments made to meet the needs of schools across the archipelago.
Extra support for pupils with specific educational needs
One of the main reinforcements to the teaching workforce focuses on support for pupils with specific educational support needs, with the addition of 274 more professionals: 183 Therapeutic Pedagogy teachers, 65 Educational Guidance teachers and 26 Hearing and Language teachers, he explained. According to the Canary Islands government, this increase consolidates one of the department’s priority lines during the current legislative term, aimed at improving attention to diversity and moving towards a more inclusive education.
Appointments completed “in record time and with practically no incidents”
Suárez praised the great effort and dedication of the department’s staff in making such a large volume of appointments in record time during the first weeks of September and with practically no incidents. The minister thanked them for their commitment and for playing a part, through commendable work, in ensuring that the start of the 2026/2027 school year also passed off normally as far as the composition of teaching teams was concerned. According to the department, statistically fewer than 1% of these contracts have required correction, and those recorded — 40 in the Primary teaching corps and 35 in Secondary out of a total of 3,759 — were mainly due to the notification deadlines for medical leave taken by certain officials, or to duplications that were resolved practically immediately.
More than 12,800 appointments of temporary staff
Up to last Friday, 18 September, the Directorate-General for Personnel and Teacher Training, coordinated by Mónica Ramírez, had made a total of 12,838 appointments of temporary staff, of which 10,529 correspond to full-time positions for the whole school year; 204 to full-time positions until 30 June; and 1,014 to part-time positions until the same date. In addition, there were a further 1,051 appointments to cover full-time substitutions, with the aim of addressing the unforeseen needs that have arisen in schools at the start of this academic year.
A specific calendar to order appointments
To carry out post-allocation and start-of-year appointments, the department has established a specific calendar in order to organise allocations and help teaching staff best placed on the employment lists to access better appointments. Following that order, during the month of September the department has made 3,759 appointments corresponding to vacancies arising after the allocation carried out in July, as well as permits, leave, various administrative situations and absences. Around 400 of these correspond to career officials authorised in August to provide services in their home autonomous communities, which has allowed those posts to be covered by people on the Canary Islands’ employment lists, in addition to another 500 previously authorised and allocated.
Hundreds of online offers in Secondary and Primary
Also during the same appointments process, the Department of Education has made nearly 400 online offers in Secondary and more than 50 in the Primary teaching corps, with which to fill part-time positions, singular posts requiring additional specific requirements, or vacancies for which there are no available candidates on the corresponding lists. The area led by Poli Suárez will continue working to cover the needs that arise during the school year in order to guarantee adequate attention to pupils.
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