The education authority of the Spanish Region Murcia has proposed advertising a total of 2,108 posts in the 2027 teacher recruitment process. The proposal covers Secondary education, with Vocational education and training and other teaching roles. Union representatives met with the authority in a technical working group on 13 November 2026. Talks are due to continue in the relevant negotiating body.
The figure is a proposal for now, not a recruitment notice that has already been published. The allocation of posts across individual subjects, along with the exam dates and conditions, has yet to be announced. The regional education minister Víctor Marín announced that the recruitment notice should appear in the Official Gazette of the Region of Murcia before the end of 2026.
According to the authority, the recruitment process is to include both posts from the 2026 public-sector staffing plan and posts from previous years that have not yet been advertised. The total therefore does not consist solely of newly created posts. The regional government aims to reduce the proportion of teachers on temporary contracts and provide greater job stability through the recruitment process.
According to Marín, this proportion is above 20 per cent in secondary education. The authority aims to bring it down to eight per cent. The minister cited the 2026 recruitment process for teachers in the Maestros category as a comparison: according to his department, the proportion there fell to 6.4 per cent. This does not yet demonstrate that the planned 2027 process will have a similar effect.
The teachers’ union ANPE Murcia had already called for a larger recruitment round on 4 November. It considered the previously announced figure of 2,000 posts inadequate and demanded at least 2,331. The new proposal is 223 posts below that demand. The union has not commented on the figure now proposed.
ANPE put the proportion of teachers on temporary contracts at around 35 per cent, higher than the authority’s figure. It remains unclear whether the two figures refer to the same groups of employees and the same reference date.
In the 2025 recruitment process for secondary education, vocational training and other teaching roles, a total of 1,281 posts were filled, according to a report by Radio Murcia while 314 remained vacant. Unions and candidates criticised the exam format at the time, while the authority defended the process. For 2027, the allocation across subjects and the exam conditions, among other matters, still need to be settled.
Editor: Mira Cadena (Article created with AI assistance).