Despite the campaigns conducted by the current opposition group in parliament, the OECD, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Developmentan international organisation, in its Talis report released by the National Institute for the Evaluation of the Educational and Training System (Invalsi) certifies a increase in wages of the Italian teachers. A result obtained thanks to the increases established with the latest national school contract signed by Giuseppe Valditara, which makes Italy the country in which the compensation has increased the most.
The OECD report highlights how the average salaries of Italian teachers today amount to 28,113 euros, which places Italian teachers in fourth place in Europe by income, behind Austria, Spain and Sweden. Italy thus finds itself ahead of countries such as France, Finland and Portugal. In its report, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development also highlights salaries after the first 15 years of career, which reach 37,139 euros, placing Italian teachers in the top tier of the European Union. However, despite improving economic conditions for teachers, the profession continues to attract little interest from young people.
According to the OECD this may be derived from a perception of poor valorisation of the role and profession by society, which would not recognize teachers as important as they should. But not only that, because at the basis there would also be the high stress condition to which teachers would be subjected in their duties, with particular reference to the workload in the classroom but also to bureaucratic obligations. Without considering the perception of a slow, sometimes zero, career progressionwhich makes the profession almost static and unattractive.
Also for this reason, with reference to the entire European Union, the OECD report reports that for the most part the role of the teacher is covered by female teachers and in old agea sign that there is no adequate generational change and that we are still stuck in gender stereotypes.
