Parliamentary Group

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DRAFT RESOLUTION NO. 104 /XI

RECOMMENDS THE EXCEPTIONAL INTEGRATION OF LECTURERS

CONTRACTORS WITH MORE THAN 10 YEARS OF SERVICE

Exhibition of reasons

The educators and teachers hired in the Portuguese education system have

increased from year to year. It is too evident the precariousness of thousands of

education professionals, who every day perform their duties in

identical situation to those of the professionals in the framework.

The opening of multi-year competitions was justified with the need to establish

a climate of continuity and stability in our schools and educational practices.

The CDS-PP endorses in part this need, however it allows each time

more there are educators and teachers who have an unstable bond and that year after

year, if they come in the need to travel to another school and away from their

families. This yes is the major reason for the instability of teaching staff.

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If on the one hand the expectable decrease in the school-age population is going to decrease

brief deadline, on the other hand the extension of compulsory education for the 18 years of

age will increase in a lot the needs of educational professionals where to

include the teachers.

It is further added that every year thousands of educators and teachers ask for the

more diverse motifs the retirement, with the contests only open some

hundreds of places from the frame. This practice has been cyclical in the last contests, in the

however it has worsened in recent years in which there is an increase in contracted to

perform functions that aim to fill permanent needs.

According to the data provided by the Ministry of Education itself came out of the system

by the most varied motifs about 5000 educators and teachers only in 2009 to

enter to the tables by general national contest only 396 in new vacancies.

This currently existing about 15000 contract teachers, what evidences

that this is a financial option that the Ministry of Finance certainly imposes on the

Ministry of Education. However, data from the Ministry of Education itself

show that the number of contractors in total, or be permanent needs and

transitory descents to about 23000 educators and teachers.

The Government has been making it past that the contracted teachers are only carrying out

lecturer work to bridge transitional needs as they are low medical

or childbirth permits, however the figures contradict this message from the current

Government. It is about 8000 those who have been out for more than 10 years with contracts

of work, which every year is renewed in its vast majority of cases in the

schools of the same grouping of schools.

Stability in employment and career is an essential element for a class

motivated and a more apt professional for the desirable success of your students. The

a fact of having a different remunerative level from your colleagues with the same time

of service is an aspect that further demotivates its performance and creates

discrimination that makes the school and work environment skewed.

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The Dispatch No. 6365/2005 (2ª Series), has allowed access to professionalization to

professors who did not belong to the tables and who possessed more than 6 years of time

of service. This legislative act of the Government has thus come to reaffirm the need for these

teachers in the education system and their professional experience as an added value

for our teaching. This dispatch originated from the calming of expectations to all the

lecturers who were thus able to obtain professional qualification and went on to have the

conditions to be integrated in the tables of the Ministry of Education.

The professionalisation and qualification that these teachers have carried out show the

commitment that they dedicate to the education system, seeking to improve their training and

giving answer to the always new needs of the system.

It has therefore the Government to give a response to these lecturers who are over 10 years old

of service may enter the tables of the Ministry of Education, for its

need is more than evidenced by the knowledge that today we have of

reality of the schools, as well as to create conditions for all the lecturers who,

with the same time of service, have not had access to the professionalization, the

can do.

The quality of the public school we all argue for, it is not possible to be reached with

instability and insecurity at work, nor with the labour precariousness of the

teachers.

By the foregoing, the Assembly of the Republic, pursuant to Article 156 (b) of the

Constitution of the Portuguese Republic, deliberating to the Government:

1. Exceptional integration in the structure of the teaching career of educators and

professionalized teachers hired, in faculty roles there are more than

ten years lective, with the minimum duration of 6 months per academic year, for purposes

of integration and progression in the same, ensuring that this integration happens

in a time frame to be established with the teachers ' union organizations and the

maximum in extraordinary contest to be held in January 2011;

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2. Create the conditions for that within the maximum term of five years educators and

professors in faculty roles to more than ten academic years, with the duration

minimum of 6 months per academic year, with own habilitation and not

professionalised, achedto professionalisation so that they can enjoy the

stipulated in paragraph 1 of this draft resolution;

Palace of S. Bento, April 7, 2010.

The Deputies,