Do not reach the three thousand teachers registered to carry proof … – publico

                 

                         
                     

                         

                 

 
                         

Only about 2,900 contract teachers signed up to make the call Proof of Knowledge and Capacity Assessment (PACC), scheduled for 19, revealed on Tuesday, Lusa, a source of Educational Assessment Institute ( IAVE), the body responsible for drawing up and implementation of that examination.

                     

                         For the first edition of the PACC, held last year, had signed up 13,551 contractors. Who did last year, do not need to repeat the exam.

This test is intended to teachers hired under five years of service, a caveat achieved by the National Federation of Education (FNE) in the negotiations continued in 2013 with the Ministry of Education and Science. Initially, the MEC wanted the evidence was performed by all contractors who wish to apply to teach. According to the leader of the FNE, Dias da Silva, with this reduction of the universe of PACC “more than 25 thousand teachers” were automatically released from their realization.

According to the IAVE, for the common component of the PACC, which take place during the afternoon of 19, already in vacation of students, enrolled 2861 candidates. The registration deadline expired on 28 November, followed him a period of validation and correction of entries, which ended on 2. But the official number of members was only established at the end of last Friday, the deadline for the payment of proof, which costs 20 euros each candidate.

It is unclear in which schools will run the tests this year. As in 2013, the general component of proof will consist of 32 multiple-choice items and by a kind of wording. About 63% of the examined last year committed at least one typo on the text. The MEC has indicated that as of February will be held the particular, designed to test the knowledge of teachers in the subjects that wish to apply. It will be a first.

The National Federation of Teachers and six trade unions have delivered however ‘notice of strike to all services relating to the PACC, including teachers who were called to monitor the examination or to join the secretariat of evidence. The MEC requested that minimum services were defined for this day, defending in this regard that the new General Labor Law in the Public Functions requires when there is a strike called for day national tests. The unions denied this interpretation of the law, arguing that this provision applies only in cases involving student assessment. The law does not specify whether these tests are only performed by students

The case was handed over to an arbitral college, you have to make a decision until day 17. The last time this occurred during the strike teachers to the Portuguese national examination 12th year in 2013, the arbitral college decided in favor of the unions to consider that it was not mandatory to provide minimum services. But though the law changed to include examinations and national tests between the services considered as “social and unavoidable needs,” and therefore subject to minimum services