Overview

• Over 80% of candidates in both Galicia and Murcia failed the first phase of the June 21 oposiciones, leaving hundreds of teaching vacancies unfilled.
• In Galicia, only 2,123 of the 17,611 test-takers advanced, averaging just 1.3 applicants per one of the 1,664 available positions.
• Advancing aspirants must defend their teaching programming and deliver didactic presentations by July 20 to compete for open posts.
• Experts and unions are demanding an interdisciplinary forum to modernize the exam’s methodology and update its content from the current 1990s format.
• The EU has frozen €626 million in funding over Spain’s 30% public-sector temporary employment rate, intensifying calls for rapid reforms.