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Hamburg: Part-time teachers – Highest proportion in all of Germany!
The part-time quota among teachers in Schleswig-Holstein and nationwide will reach new highs in 2025; Women are strongly represented.
Hamburg: Part-time teachers – Highest proportion in all of Germany!
The part-time quota for teachers at general schools in Germany has increased again and is reaching a new high. By the 2023/2024 school year, the nationwide part-time rate will be an astonishing 43.1 percent. Compared to the previous year, when the rate was 42.3 percent, this is a significant increase, which is primarily influenced by the increasing number of female teachers: at 50.7 percent, they work part-time significantly more often than their male colleagues, for whom the rate is only 22.6 percent, reports n-tv.
The differences between the federal states are particularly striking: Hamburg leads the ranking with a part-time rate of 55 percent, followed by Bremen with 52.2 percent and Baden-Württemberg with 50.1 percent. In Thuringia and Saxony-Anhalt, on the other hand, part-time work among teachers is much less common, with values around 23 percent. These figures show that part-time jobs for teachers are very popular in the northern federal states.
Teachers at a glance
The trend towards part-time work cannot only be observed in schools. In other sectors, the part-time rate is 30.9 percent, which shows that the teaching profession here attracts an above-average number of part-time workers. According to Destatis, this trend has become increasingly clear in recent years, which is also due to the increasing demands on teachers and the desire for a better work-life balance.
Decline in teacher training students
A worrying development is the decline in the number of students studying to become teachers. According to an analysis, the number of new students studying to become teachers fell by 3.2 percent to just under 45,400 in 2022. This marks the second consecutive decline, and compared to ten years ago, this is a full 7 percent decline. The number of teaching graduates also fell further, falling by 0.7 percent to around 28,700.
The numbers make it clear that German education policy is facing major challenges. It is becoming increasingly difficult to attract young teachers to the profession, which can have a long-term impact on school quality. These facts should give decision-makers in education policy something to think about: It is important to improve the framework conditions and increase the attractiveness of the teaching profession so that future generations of teachers can be in the classroom not only part-time, but above all with great commitment.
Detailed information can also be found at n-tv and Destatis.