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Austria’s Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz has told Vienna's Kurier that Muslim kindergartens should be shut down.

Asked by the newspaper whether this should be done, Kurz replied: "Of course, we don’t need them. There should be no Islamic kindergartens."

At least seven people were killed and 59 injured in an explosion at a kindergarten in eastern China, the state media reported on Thursday.
A photo posted by Chinese media online shows several women and children sitting or lying on the ground, some bleeding. One woman is clutching her child, who is in tears.

Muslim parents have threatened to gather signatures for a petition against a Berlin preschool, after discovering that one of its male teachers is gay. Many of the parents have removed their children from the nursery.

The protest by parents at the kindergarten in the northern district of Reinickendorf was reported by German media earlier this week.

A second round of training for professional development of teachers from 50 more schools will be organized, enabling them to use mBot robots as teaching tools.

It will take place from March 8 until 10, Fund B92 announced on Tuesday.

Teachers in Turkey fail to answer questions in their own education fields, according to statistics obtained from the Education Ministry that reviewed their performances in 2016. 

The majority of Greece's schools are not adequately heated, leaving students and staff having to sit through freezing classes, the teachers' federation DOE has claimed in a letter asking for more funds from the Interior Ministry.

Turkish authorities have forbidden for the first time the topic of Christmas in classes at a German school in the capital Istanbul, reported Die Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

Keeping students in line in the classroom can sometimes be a nightmare for teachers. But the teacher in the following video seems to have found a very “persuasive” way to make his students listen to him. The incident took place in France. The beat down of the student can be found in no acceptable contemporary paedagogic style guide…

The Education Ministry plans to scrap its extended schools program as of the new academic year starting in September, Kathimerini understands.

Under the existing program, school day is extended to 4 p.m. The two extra hours, which help working parents, are used for extra-curriculum activities.