why there are not enough ATC instructors
iamhere
here is my version for what it is worth. Most ANSPs are government run, and a smaller proportion are either run as a private enterprises (either for or not for profit).
The problem is that with all these organisations you have either the lethargy of government which we all know about or the private enterprise trying to minimise their costs, so that the managers can make their huge bonuses at the end of the financial year.
What most of them forgot about was increasing the training requirement, which depending on the facility could be up to 2 or more years and the baby boomer generation who are just commencing their retirements and will continue to do so in greater numbers over the next 10 or so years. They only require usually a few months to give notice. Problem is the ATS management do not want to carry the extra bodies (read cost) waiting for when these dudes retire.
Now there is a crisis in ATC staffing levels worldwide with people leaving in greater numbers than they can train and validate, and the ME has started to up the ante with money, because they have it available. This is now causing more grief for most 1st world countries as their ATC workforce is being poached to greener or dustier pastures as the case may be.
Even residency, citizenship requirements are being dumped now in order that countries can poach the manpower they require.
The only problem as you say is why are ATC instructors being left behind with the money. Because their (the management) mindset hasnt yet changed, but it will because training will become more than or just as important as bums on seats, and the first few organisations that get that right will be the winners. Once they cant get enough trained people on seats because enough are not being trained then they will be fired into action, but its a 2 way street there because that will entice some workface controllers from the console to the sim and classroom which most cant do.
HMMMMM what to do?
give it a few years for the mentality to change.