Brussels universities team up to tackle teacher shortages

The chronic teacher shortage in Dutch-speaking schools in both Flanders and Brussels has resulted in the education sector repeatedly calling for added help in recent months. Now, it is taking its fate into its own hands by looking to tackle the shortage itself, writes Lauren Walker for The Brussels Times.

According to Catholic Education Flanders (KOV), the current teacher shortage is the “biggest threat to the quality of education”, especially in Brussels, and argued that a greater urgency from political authorities is needed. The region’s universities have now started working together to strengthen the intake into teacher training.

“The Brussels education sector is not going to stand by, we will do something ourselves,” said Lieven Boeve, KVO’s director-general. “By promoting Brussels as a trendsetter and unique workplace for teachers, we will improve the social image of the teaching profession.”
Full report on The Brussels Times site