Technical FP Teachers in Galicia: Integration into Secondary Education 2026

Key data

Technical Vocational Training teachers from Galicia who met the requirements of the procedure initiated in January 2023 now have their formal appointment as career civil servants of the Secondary Education Teachers Corps. The Order EFD/421/2026, of April 27, published on May 4, 2026, formalizes this change of corps with direct effects on salaries and working conditions.

This process is not an isolated decision by Galicia: it responds to the planned discontinuation of the Technical Professors Corps of FP at the state level, a direct consequence of the educational reform promoted by LOMLOE. Galicia is now executing the phase of formal appointment of teachers who passed the integration procedure.

What does this regulation establish?

Order EFD/421/2026 formalizes the appointment as career civil servants of the Secondary Education Teachers Corps for those teachers who, belonging to the Technical Professors Corps of FP in Galicia, participated in and passed the integration procedure called by the Order of January 17, 2023.

The legal framework that makes this possible is LOMLOE, which establishes the progressive discontinuation of the Technical Professors Corps of FP at the national level. To be able to integrate into the new corps, teachers had to accredit a university degree qualification or equivalent as an essential requirement.

Integration is not automatic for all technical FP teachers: it only affects those who actively participated in the Galician call and met the established requirements. Those who did not participate or did not accredit the required qualification remain in the corps to be discontinued until it definitively disappears.

Economic and operational impact

The change of corps is not merely administrative. It has direct economic consequences for integrated teachers and budgetary consequences for the Department of Education of Galicia.

• Salary improvement: Technical FP teachers had lower salary conditions than those of the Secondary Education Teachers Corps. Integration equates their salaries to those of the new corps, which represents a salary increase for those affected.
• Equalization of working conditions: Beyond salary, integrated teachers access the same working conditions, allowances and rights as the rest of the Secondary teaching staff.
• Budgetary impact for Galicia: The salary improvement of integrated teachers represents an additional cost for the Department of Education, Science, Universities and Vocational Training of the Autonomous Community of Galicia, which must assume the salary difference between both corps.
• Discontinuation of the original corps: As technical FP teachers are integrated or retire, the Technical Professors Corps of FP is reduced until its definitive disappearance, simplifying the structure of teaching corps in Spain.

Who does it affect?

This regulation has a very specific and delimited scope of application:

• Directly affected: Technical FP teachers from Galicia who participated in the integration call opened by the Order of January 17, 2023 and met all requirements, including university degree qualification or equivalent.
• Indirectly affected: The Department of Education, Science, Universities and Vocational Training of Galicia, which manages the administrative change and assumes the budgetary impact.
• Not affected by this order: Technical FP teachers from other autonomous communities (each community manages its own procedure), teachers who did not participate in the 2023 Galician call, and technical FP teachers who did not accredit the required university qualification.
• National context: Other autonomous communities are in different phases of the same process of discontinuing the corps, so similar orders may be published in the coming months or years for their respective territories.

Practical example

A technical FP teacher from Galicia specializing in, for example, Electrotechnical Installations, who in 2023 accredited their university degree qualification in Engineering and participated in the integration procedure called by the Order of January 17, 2023:

• Until now appeared as a career civil servant of the Technical Professors Corps of FP, a corps in the process of being discontinued.
• Following Order EFD/421/2026, is formally appointed as a career civil servant of the Secondary Education Teachers Corps.
• Their salary is equated to that of the rest of Secondary teachers, with the salary improvement that entails.
• Their working conditions, allowances and rights are equalized to those of Secondary teaching staff in Galicia.

By contrast, a colleague from the same school who did not accredit a university degree qualification or who did not participate in the 2023 call remains in the Technical Professors Corps of FP, without accessing these improvements.

What should institutions do now?

1. Verify the list of appointees: Educational centers and the Department of Education of Galicia must review which teachers have been appointed through this order to update their administrative records.
2. Update payroll and salaries: The human resources services of the Department must apply the corresponding salary improvement to integrated teachers, equating their salary to that of the Secondary Education Teachers Corps.
3. Update civil service records: Each integrated teacher must verify that their personal file correctly reflects the new corps and associated conditions.
4. Check the effective date: Given that the entry into force is not specified in the published regulation, those affected should consult the complete official resolution to know from what date the appointments have administrative and economic effects.
5. Monitoring for other autonomous communities: The education departments of other communities and teaching unions should monitor this process, as Galicia sets a precedent in the execution of the procedure.