Education System in Spain
by Discussing the Education system in Spain. Any errors or omissions in fact are purely accidental as the writer bases this information on available research rather than personal experience.
Schools supply a list of what is required at the start of each school year, which will include art and craft materials as well as text and exercise books. Expect to spend a minimum of around ninety pounds (GBP) per child, but in some regions, the autonomous government is giving tokens to exchange them in book shops for free, this is being adapted in 2006 in regions like Andalusia, where kids from 3 to 10 will get the books for free, on the following years it is expected for all compulsory years. School uniform is not normally worn in state schools but is usually worn in private schools. All but the very smallest villages have their own primary school, and there is widespread coverage of school transport. Small village schools are grouped together under the auspices of their local teacher’s center for the provision of specialist teachers for subjects such as music, English, etc.
For those moving from the United States of America and similar countries, you will find the educational system in Spain is very much similar. In fact, many nations are adapting a similarly recognized and standardized system of education.
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Post CommentOSEI BONSU LAUME
On September 12, 2008 at 6:52 am
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On May 3, 2009 at 8:04 pm
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casperesqui
On August 20, 2009 at 8:01 am
I would like to talk about a shameful system in Spain for the selection of teachers. It is called Oposiciones and it is used to decide who is a good teacher and give him a job forever.
Firstly I would like to point out that the tribunal is formed by teachers that can have less experience that the people they are testing. A person with four years of experience can test another with twenty! I have found really good teachers tested by his olds students!
Secondly, the tribunal mostly doesn’t know the topics better than the opositores that they are testing. They have those topics over the table and they have to check it all the time. Those topics mostly have being made by private academies where the people go to prepare the oposiciones and to study it. I suppose some remember a little but nothing else.
Third. It is compulsory write down a bibliography even when the topics has been made by a private organization and there is nothing made by the students (remembering that the students can be teachers with a lot of experience, with family, kids and obligations). You have to learn the name of the books by heart when practically nobody has read those books in the oposiciones.
In primary, you have to learn 25 topics by heart (memorize) and then memorize a program and talk about it for 30 minutes. You have to memorize then a didactic unit with activities and say that in front of the tribunal like a parrot during 45 minutes. Those activities are prepared in advance so the private academy or anybody else can do it and the student only needs to memorize it.
All this process happens every two years and there are teachers that have been doing that for more than twenty years. The system changes sometimes and the topics too.
Remembering that tribunal and people that is studying oposiciones studied at the university the exactly same degree and probably a lot of the teachers that want to pass the oposiciones are much better prepared than the tribunal and with much more degrees and experience but they have family, kids, much more things to think about than a 23 years student and of course they can not study 5,6,7 hours per day. With that system the best teachers have the door closed.
I have friends in different countries. They don’t want to go back to Spain because they are 40 or more years old and they have no time to study such a hard and stupid exam that doesn’t show they real skillfulness. In Spain people doesn’t speak English and the level of English of the teachers in the Primaries schools can be terrible.(the English level of English teachers…J)
In fact people living in London for example and with a terrific level of English can be tested by teachers that practically never went abroad or only in summers ….and they don´t understand what they are talking about. J. J. J. I don’t know if I should smile or cry…
Teachers that have to study oposiciones can stay without any permanent job for the rest of their lifes. They are hired for two years and then they are fired to be hired again (or not) depending on the oposiciones. In that way they never adquire any right
This is the shameful system in Spain. One of the worst educative systems on the developed world and one of the systems with more failures in Europe
If you have any doubt or have any question write me to casperesquy@gmail.com