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“Taking into consideration that one of many features of the municipality is the availability of training in its territory, within the present discussions in regards to the proportion of pedagogues‘ workloads, an vital participant – the municipalities – has not been invited to the negotiating desk. The calls for put ahead by the Latvian Schooling and Science Staff’ Union (LIZDA) can have a direct impression on the training administrations within the native governments. in addition to the native authorities finances. On the identical time, representatives of each the native authorities and training are united by the overarching aim of offering high quality and aggressive training to the youthful generations,” says Jānis Baiks, president of LLPA, mayor of Valmiera.
LLPA helps the proposal of the Ministry of Schooling and Tradition, which offers that the ideas of balancing the workload of educators might be promoted within the authorities together with amendments to the “Academics’ Wage Laws”, which offer for the institution of a uniform regular working time for educators – 40 astronomical hours per week, ranging from September 2025.
Balancing ideas present for figuring out how a lot time from the working week the instructor devotes to contact courses and the way a lot to different work duties, together with the time wanted to arrange for classes.
Within the opinion of LLPA, the necessities maintained by LIZDA aren’t life like in relation to the variety of at present employed pedagogues and the finances prospects of native governments. The commerce union’s demand for a 50/50 ratio between contact hours and the time the pedagogue devotes to different duties, together with lesson preparation, is unrealistic for the variety of pedagogues at present accessible within the nation.
There’s already a scarcity of certified lecturers within the sector, and in a number of municipalities there are difficulties in recruiting a full crew of lecturers, however the distribution of workloads proposed by LIZDA would make this job much more troublesome.
Since a big a part of lecturers’ salaries is roofed by the municipality, LLPA believes that the achievement of LIZDA’s necessities relating to guaranteeing the proportions of lecturers’ workloads would considerably burden the budgets of native governments, if the choice on the distribution of workloads just isn’t adopted by a rise in funding to be directed to lecturers’ salaries. LLPA exists on the load ratio of 65/35 proposed by the MES.
As reported, the Ministry of Schooling and Science doesn’t agree with LIZDA’s necessities relating to the popular method of load balancing from the following faculty 12 months, because it doesn’t see the potential for acquiring further vital funding for this.
2024-05-22 20:10:04