Sistema Maestro, Colombia's new MinEducation platform for contracting

This article was written and published in Spanish and has been translated into English via Google Translate. Click here to read the original article.

The initiative offers various vacancies at the national level so that teachers can participate in the calls through merit. Jobs in urban, rural and hard-to-reach areas are available and will be for those with the highest scores through weighting tables.

One of the big bets for national education is to reduce inequality. To do this, one of the strategies regarding quality is to ensure that teachers reach all the territories of the country - teachers evaluated under criteria of merit and professional experience. The Bank of Excellence was one of the platforms that made this possible, except for some inconveniences regarding effectiveness and speed. Hence the Ministry of Education has modified this initiative and launched a new mechanism called "Master System".

It is a platform in which the Certified Territorial Entities (ETC), offer their final vacancies to classroom teachers and counselors with greater merit. Through a georeferenced map, applicants can participate by offering information about them such as experience, professional quality, studies, among others. The system preselects three of them in order to choose, in the end, the postulate that stands out the most.

"The highest score will be for teachers according to the weighting tables: urban, rural (prioritizes years of experience in the area and allows equivalences to be applied for teaching experience) and difficult access (prioritizes years of experience in the zone, allows to apply equivalences by the teaching experience and the territorial roots)." 

This was established by the portfolio through a statement.

This time, the system offers extensive information for aspiring teachers and institutions. It is because teachers, in the absence of knowledge about the regions offered, after having applied to employment teachers ended up giving up the offer because of disinterest or refusal of the sites. This taking into account the conditions of the Colombian territory, both for urban, rural and difficult access education.

This article was written and published in Spanish and has been translated into English via Google Translate. Click here to read the original article.

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