Journalists who have a qualifying title will be able to teach Language and Literature classes in Secondary Education and Baccalaureate in private centers starting next year. This is stated in Royal Decree 187/2023, of March 21, published this Wednesday in the Official State Gazette (BOE) which regulates the initial training conditions for teachers in private centers to teach in the aforementioned stages, and establishes, for the purposes of continuity of teaching activity in these centers, the correspondence between certain subjects. In this way, journalists who have a qualifying title will be able to teach Language and Literature.
This Royal Decree, which enters into force this Thursday, March 23 and will be implemented following the deadlines established in the LOMLOE, is an old demand of the Federation of Associations of Spanish Journalists (FAPE), which formed a platform together with journalists- affected teachers, who were prevented from teaching this subject despite having a Master's Degree in Teachers in Compulsory Secondary Education and Baccalaureate Vocational Training and Language Teaching (MAES).
According to the text, the provisions of this Royal Decree will be implemented for the first and third years of Compulsory Secondary Education in the 2022-2023 school year and for the second and fourth years of Compulsory Secondary Education in the 2023-2024 academic year. For the first year of Baccalaureate, in the 2022-2023 school year, and for the second year of Baccalaureate, in the 2023-2024 academic year. For the first year of the Basic Grade Training Cycles, in the 2022-2023 school year, and for the second year, in the 2023-2024 school year.
The new Royal Decree contemplates, among other aspects, that graduates in Journalism with a qualification can teach Spanish Language and Literature in ESO, as well as Spanish Language and Literature I and II and Universal Literature in Baccalaureate and Dramatic Literature. And, the graduates, graduates or graduates in Audiovisual Communication may teach Audiovisual Culture in Baccalaureate.
In addition, Geography and History may be taught through any bachelor's degree in the area of Humanities or Social and Legal Sciences or any official graduate or equivalent degree in the branch of knowledge of Arts and Humanities or Social and Legal Sciences, and also accredit teaching experience or adequate higher education to teach the curriculum of the corresponding subject.
In a similar case is Artistic Foundations, Art History and Cultural and Artistic Movements; Training and Personal and Professional Guidance; Education in Civic and Ethical Values or Philosophy and History of Philosophy, according to the Royal Decree, among other aspects.
Until now, graduates or graduates in Journalism and Communication were forced to obtain the qualifying title for Language and Literature, but then they were not allowed to practice in private and subsidized centers, which has also had an unequal application depending on the Autonomous Community which it was about. They could also take the corresponding oppositions but under much less advantageous conditions than other careers or degrees.
However, in the period of allegations to the draft decree now approved, FAPE has requested that, when regulating the conditions of initial training of teachers in public schools, Journalism and Communication be placed in the same conditions in which that appears in this Royal Decree, to have access to temporary employment exchanges and obtain merits in the face of the opposition, since currently these bachelor's degrees or academic degrees have not been given any value by the academic authorities.
FAPE recalls that "insults have been committed against journalists, such as not allowing them to participate in the merit contest (RD270-2022), those who were allowed to teach in their Autonomous Community, and how during the course of the pandemic, graduates without the MAES have been allowed to teach classes and journalists have been rejected, despite having teaching specialization".
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