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I've just re-read these articles - it would be nice to breathe some life into the Spain forums. Here in Alicante both viewpoints are clearly represented among the language academies. Unfortunately due to the very difficult economic conditions (19% unemployment, no credit available, drop-off in tourism) even the better schools are finding it hard to promote their educational ideals such as teacher development, smaller classes, investing in resources. I wonder at what point the state schools will begin to look at the possibilities of forming alliances with private language schools and sharing resources, talent, training, best practice and native teachers. It seems to me like a great opportunity, but perhaps I'm being naive.
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| Quote: | | I wonder at what point the state schools will begin to look at the possibilities of forming alliances with private language schools and sharing resources, talent, training, best practice and native teachers. It seems to me like a great opportunity, but perhaps I'm being naive. |
I think perhaps you are, I'm afraid.
First off, the overlapping systems of the "autonomous communities" with the statewide MoE would probably make any sort of coordination with the private sector complicated.
And what with the generation-wide obsession with passing "las oposiciones" and getting the feverishly coveted post as a "funcionario"--you know, three months holiday, a job for life, etc.--which a public secondary-school job implies, competition for those positions is tooth-and-nail. So much so that they had to invent that most extremely arbitrary monument to rote memorization (the above-mentioned "oposiciones"), as a means to weed through the thousands of aspirants willy-nilly.
As such, it's clearly in the interest of the governments involved (national and regional) to provide the waves of university graduates with degrees in Humanities with some sort of outlet of work opportunities--such as studying for the old Certificado de Adecuacion Pedagogica or whatever (now the Master de Formacion de profesorado de secundario), which gives them access to jobs in the public sector that your average TEFLer has no way to getting not even in their wildest dreams.
So I think it's quite clear that we will continue seeing the parallel, chiefly NEST-dominated private sector--with its own pet qualifications (CELTA, DELTA, etc.) and the other, chiefly non-NEST public sector. And never the twain shall meet.
But maybe I'm just being cynical... |
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