In total, 61,141 second-cycle students Infant, Primary and special education classes begin this Tuesday, September 10, in 358 educational centers in the province of Córdoba. Last year there were 62,300, which represents a decrease of 1.8 percent.
On the 16th, it will be the turn of secondary school, baccalaureate, vocational training and adult continuing education students (76,933 students), while on the 20th, the course in the higher education courses will begin. special diet -Music, Dance, Plastic Arts, Design, Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Property, Dramatic Art and Languages-, with 7,409 students.
In total, 155,922 students will start their courses in September and more than 12,100 teachers in 780 centers, public, subsidized and private.
This new academic year is marked by a new drop in the number of students due to the drop in the birth rate with 25,000 fewer students between the stages of the second cycle of early childhood, primary, secondary and baccalaureate, being the biggest drop in the historical series of the beginning of the year in Andalusia, as reported by the Junta de Andalucía in a note.
In the case of the ESO and Baccalaureate More than 9,000 students are missing this course. Thus, since the 2018/19 academic year, the entire education system has lost around 107,000 students, which represents a drop of almost 9%.
Despite the decrease in the number of students, the Andalusian Government maintains its commitment to “consolidating the resources that have been added to the system and incorporating new ones through permanent social dialogue to improve attention of students“.
Thus, this year, the Andalusian education system supported by public funds has a teaching staff made up of more than 11,700 professionals in Córdoba, of which around 10,000, or 85.4%, are teachers and professors of educational centers. public and more than 1,700, 14.5%, from subsidized centers.
Likewise, from this month of September, the third salary increase of the agreement to equalize the salary of Andalusian teachers with the national average comes into force, reached unanimously in the sectoral tables, which benefits both teachers in the public network and the concerted network. This historic agreement wage equalizationwhich ends in 2025, represents a total investment of more than 200 million euros.
Support for families
In a context of rising prices in almost all sectors, the Andalusian Government has allocated around 886 million euros in aid to Andalusian families in the school environment. This includes aspects such as scholarships, tip of the first cycle of preschool education, bonuses for catering and other complementary services, school transport or free school textbooks in compulsory education, with an investment of more than 105 million which allows more than 481,000 students to use textbooks for the first time this year and benefits nearly 900,000 students in total.
Complementary services are increasing in this course with two other centers offering morning classes up to 152 and two other centers have authorized the school cafeteriain total 189. There are 171 centers that offer extracurricular activities. The forecast for users of the school canteen is almost 15,500 students, about 9,000 in morning classes and more than 7,000 in extracurricular classes.
In terms of infrastructure, with a view to the 2024/25 academic year, a total of 27 works will be carried out or have been carried out in educational centres in Córdoba, with a budget of almost four million euros. These interventions will benefit more than 11,700 students registered in these centers, which will see their facilities expanded or improved.
