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Urgent teacher shortage: Saxony is planning bold reforms for better education!
Saxony is struggling with a teacher shortage and is discussing new approaches to improving teaching quality by 2030.
Urgent teacher shortage: Saxony is planning bold reforms for better education!
In Saxony, the shortage of teachers has become an urgent problem that not only affects schools, but also the education of your children. In order to remedy the high number of teaching losses, measures are being planned that will have a deep impact on the structure of the teaching profession. The considerations for the reform come from the Ministry of Culture’s “Educational State of Saxony 2030” project. Education Minister Conrad Clemens (CDU) also commented on this and emphasized the need to lower the requirements for the teaching profession and create more flexibility in order to be able to better support schools. The Saxon state parliament is already intensively discussing the planned changes, which could come into force at the beginning of 2026 at the earliest, provided that the necessary adjustments to the regulation on teacher training are made. MDR reports that.
A central aspect is the integration of music and art graduates who can now teach at high schools and high schools. These changes are intended to help alleviate the teacher shortage while maintaining a wide range of subjects. The University of Fine Arts in Dresden is even planning a new master's degree program “Master of Education” for art, which will enable graduates to freely choose whether they want to spend their traineeship at a high school or a high school. So far there has only been a special exception for the subject of music. However, Martin Helbig, the state chairman of the Green Party in Saxony, demands that the quality of teaching must not be left behind and that clear guidelines for pedagogical training are needed in order to guarantee teacher quality.
The reality of lateral entrants
Another problem that increases the shortage of teachers in Saxony is the number of lateral entrants. In the current school year, 140 of them started training as teachers, but a shocking 135 have already given up. This means that one in five students leaving school early leaves school. The figures come from the Ministry of Culture and make it clear that many newcomers often do not feel wanted. In comparison, a total of 1,033 new teachers were hired this school year, which shows that the situation is anything but rosy. [Sächsische reports that](https://www.saechsische.de/sachsen/lehr Mangel-in-sachsen-jeder-fuenfte-seiteneinsteiger-hoert-wieder-auf-IWRZ365I4ZGZXOQB2XV26E6XD4.html) a total of 3,089 lateral entrants have been hired since 2016, of which over 671 have left school service.
Given this situation, it is not surprising that the Greens in Saxony are building up pressure. The state leader of the Green Party, Martin Helbig, made a clear statement about the planned measures and warned that increasing the number of single-subject teachers must not be a “cheap solution” that has a negative impact on students. He calls for binding rules for post-qualification, mentoring and clear quality standards for these teachers. Clemens points out the importance of solid training and advocates making the teaching profession attractive for all types of schools. N-TV reports that the Minister of Education is demanding that pragmatic solutions be found to really help the schools and maintain the quality of training.
The discussion about the teacher shortage in Saxony will certainly still have many facets. What is clear is that action must be taken now so as not to endanger the education of future generations.