Overview
- Realschulen and Gymnasien will receive about 2% fewer teaching hours next school year, with each school choosing whether to enlarge classes, cut electives or drop intensification hours.
- The ministry reports up to 1,080 full-time teaching posts becoming vacant this year that may not be refilled due to a lack of qualified applicants.
- Mittelschulen and Förderschulen are flagged as hardest hit, prompting greater use of career-changers and auxiliary staff, limits on part-time and later retirement, alongside further class-size increases and reduced AGs.
- Gymnasien face continued strain from the return to G9, with the ministry again banking on voluntary part-time increases to help offset shortfalls.
- Unions and associations condemn the measures as austerity-driven, while ministry projections show unfilled Mittelschule posts could rise from about 210 this year to roughly 470 by 2027.