The FDP Saar supports this step and has already conveyed it to Education Minister Streichert-Clivot during her visit to the state expert committee.
The call for applications for the "Lateral Entry in Computer Science," published on 04.10., raises justified doubts about the feasibility of this project. Not only the short deadline until 31.10., but also the selection criteria for applicants seem to hinder the recruitment of computer science teachers.
The deputy state chairman Marcel Mucker: “Teachers in Saarland are among the worst paid on average in Germany. This alone makes it difficult to find applicants with the required qualifications, because highly qualified IT specialists are in urgent demand in every federal state through private-sector headhunters and can expect correspondingly high salaries there. According to the Hays Skilled Workers Index, IT professionals are at the highest level of the past seven years.” Currently, there are only 6,214 corresponding master’s graduates for 28,700 open positions in IT professions.
„The solution for us lies in accepting lateral entrants without a university degree. Therefore, we call on the Ministry of Education to expand the qualifications for applicants for training occupations in the IT sector, such as IT specialists and IT system technicians,“ Mucker continued.
Pedagogical qualification is indeed a problem - but generally for all lateral entrants. They then receive part-time training alongside their job.
