Overview

• National enrollment in teacher training institutes fell by 5% from 2015 to 2024 even as the number of graduates climbed by 54%.
• Teacher salaries dropped to their lowest level in two decades in 2024, according to the Secretaría de Educación de la Nación.
• Nine out of ten private schools report difficulty filling at least one teaching position, with shortages most acute in English, computing and physics-chemistry.
• The number of non-university teacher training institutes grew by just 2% over the past decade, raising concerns about distribution, capacity and instructional quality.
• Provincial enrollment varied sharply, with San Luis and Río Negro up more than 50% while La Pampa, Catamarca and Santa Cruz saw declines of 40–50%.