The Valencian Community's Ministry of Education has announced a wide range of public teaching jobs with 2.067 places planned for 2026. This is a call that aims to strengthen the staff of educational centers and advance in the reduction of temporary employment, one of the main challenges of the Valencian education system.
This offer falls within the framework of state and regional regulations on staff replacement and forms part of a medium and long-term planning strategy which seeks to consolidate stable employment, improve the organization of centers and offer new opportunities for access to the public teaching service.
How the 2.067 teaching positions were calculated
The final figure of 2.067 teaching positions It is not arbitrary, but rather results from the combination of several elements established by budgetary regulations. First, the following has been applied: staff replacement rate permitted in education, which can reach up to 120% according to state and regional budget laws; from this initial calculation have emerged 1.398 places.
Regarding that first block, the Ministry has decided to add a additional increase of 20%This represents an additional 280 positions. According to the education authorities, this expansion reflects their commitment to accelerating the reduction of temporary teaching positions and strengthening staffing levels in public schools.
These figures also include 389 vacancies that remained unfilled in previous selection processes. The integration of these positions into the new offer aims to make the most of all available resources, prevent structural positions from remaining unconsolidated, and advance the creation of stable employment in the Valencian education system.
With the combination of the replacement rate, the 20% increase and the incorporation of the previous vacancies, the Ministry thus reaches the total of 2.067 public teaching positions by 2026, which will be distributed among different bodies and specialties.
Distribution of positions by teaching bodies
The distribution of the offerings reflects where the system's main needs are concentrated. The bulk of the call for proposals is directed at Secondary School Teacherswhich account for the vast majority of the positions offered, followed by Vocational Training, artistic studies, Official Language Schools and Educational Inspection.
The breakdown of the 2.067 teaching positions It is configured as follows:
- Secondary School Teachers: 1.855 positions
- Specialist teachers in Unique Sectors of Vocational Training: 95 places
- Teachers at Official Language Schools: 22 positions
- Music and Performing Arts Teachers: 21 positions
- Teachers of Visual Arts and Design: 49 positions
- Professors of Music and Performing Arts: 10 positions
- Educational inspection: 15 positions
With this allocation, Secondary Education is consolidated as the central axis of the offering, in line with the high demand for teachers in secondary schools and the need to strengthen the teaching staff who teach compulsory education and upper secondary education. In turn, the positions in Vocational training They seek to respond to the growth of these studies and the diversification of professional profiles.
Artistic education and Official Language Schools also have new opportunities for access to the civil service, while Educational inspection It incorporates 15 new positions, with the aim of strengthening the monitoring and supervision of the education system in the Valencian Community.
Quota for people with disabilities and objectives of the call
The Ministry has emphasized that the offer includes a minimum reservation of 10% of the places for people with disabilities, as stipulated by current regulations. This quota aims to guarantee equal opportunities in access to public teaching employment and to promote the presence of people with disabilities in educational centers.
Beyond the figures, the administration insists that the 2026 call for proposals has been designed with a clear purpose: reduce the interim and consolidate permanent positions. The Generalitat points out that, in recent years, the temporary employment of teachers has been the subject of debate and regulatory adjustments at the national and European levels, with the aim of bringing it closer to the limits on temporary contracts established by law.
The 20% increase in the replacement rate and the addition of unfilled vacancies are interpreted as an attempt to accelerate this stabilization process. For the Regional Ministry, this represents an opportunity for thousands of temporary teachers may be eligible for a permanent position and, at the same time, to allow new applicants to access the Valencian education system through competitive examinations.
According to the regional department, the offer of 2.067 places is designed to give a boost to the human resource planning in the centers, to facilitate a better organization of schedules and groups, and to contribute to the more continuous development of the educational projects of each school and institute.
The Ministry's vision and the role of planning
The Director General of Teaching Staff, Pablo Ortega, has publicly defended that this call for applications responds to a "Rigorous" planning of needs of the Valencian education system. In his statements, he emphasized that the 2.067 positions represent "real opportunities for access to the public teaching service" and that the offer is one more piece within a broader structural improvement.
Ortega has insisted that the commitment to Secondary Education, Vocational Training and other specialized bodies seeks aligning the supply of places with the reality of the classroomswhere each year enrollment increases in certain grade levels and changes in the student profile are recorded. The addition of new inspection positions, meanwhile, is interpreted as a way to strengthen support for schools and monitoring of regulations.
The administration also emphasizes that the decision to add the 389 places that remained vacant In previous selection processes, it follows efficiency criteria: it avoids wasting vacancies that were already planned and advances in consolidating employment without further delaying its announcement.
The Ministry of Education frames this public employment offer within a broader policy aimed at to provide continuity for teachers and reduce turnover of teachers from one course to another, an aspect they consider key to educational quality and the stability of school projects.
Tension with the unions and deadlock at the Sectoral Committee
The presentation of this offer of 2.067 places has coincided with a climate of tension with the union organizations The Sectoral Committee that the Education Department had convened to explain the details of the call for applications and open the negotiation process failed to be formed due to the absence of STEPV and CCOO, two of the unions with the largest representation in Valencian public education.
The Ministry has expressed regret over this snub, considering that “It makes negotiation impossible and leaves thousands of teachers without representation at a crucial time.”Despite this, the department headed by Carmen Ortí insists on the need to keep the channels of dialogue open and on the importance of all trade union organizations participating in the negotiation bodies, especially on issues that affect the professional future of teachers.
Meanwhile, the dissenting unions have linked their absence from the Sectoral Committee to the lack of progress on issues such as the recovery of purchasing power or improved working conditions. Some organizations have warned of the possibility of intensifying the protests, and the threat of an indefinite strike has even been mentioned if the Valencian government does not change its position.
Even with this context of disagreement, the Ministry maintains its position that it will continue “working through dialogue and institutional responsibility” and reiterates that the future of teachers should not be conditioned by unilateral decisions that block formal negotiation spaces such as the Sectoral Committee.
The announcement of the public teaching job offer of 2.067 positions places the Valencian Community before a far-reaching selection process, destined to influence both the working lives of thousands of applicants and the organization of educational centers in the coming years, with a focus on the Teacher stability, reduction of temporary employment, and improvement of the functioning of the Valencian public education system.
