From NEOS’ point of view, the school administration is “bloated, inefficient and cumbersome”. Teachers are often kept from their ‘real job’. The opposition party is therefore calling for the bureaucracy in the country’s schools to be cut in half.
Many administrative tasks must be ‘picked up’, party leader Beate Meinl-Reisinger stressed at a press conference on Tuesday, referring to a Hajek study for which 700 teachers were interviewed.
Survey: Freedom from bureaucracy is the greatest wish
When asked what urgently needed to change to improve day-to-day work life, 51 percent of the survey commissioned by NEOS called for administrative lightening and less bureaucracy and administrative effort. The demand for more support staff, school psychologists and social workers (18 percent) followed at a considerable distance.
In the survey, 90 percent of teaching staff indicate that they carry out activities that take up a lot of time and are of little use. Only at the VET schools and colleges (BMHS), where there are middle management and administrative staff, the assessment is slightly more positive (82). According to NEOS education spokeswoman Martina Künsberg Sarre, 57 percent of respondents across all school types called administration, lists and statistics “time wasters”, some of which required two or three fillings.
Meinl-Reisinger: “There is no time to prepare lessons”
Meinl-Reisinger criticized that the teachers had to keep lists that no one reads and collect data that no one saw the use of. “This leads to frustration and missed opportunities”, because the teachers end up missing this time for lesson preparation and individual support of the students. She called on Education Minister Martin Polaschek (ÖVP) to ensure that only the bureaucracy that the administration really needs for efficient control remains.
Source: Krone
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