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Students and teachers will be obligated to take two tests per week

Education Minister Ziya Selçuk has announced that his ministry is working on a plan to extend the education year for primary and high-school students to July 2 in a bid to compensate time lost due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Ljubljana – Secondary school students in years 1-3 are joining their final-year peers on Monday as secondary schools fully reopen under model C, meaning half of the students will come to school for a week while the other half will continue learning from home. The vaccination of teachers will also start for those over 50 years old.

Ljubljana – Education Minister Simona Kustec, who faces an ouster motion, rejected criticism voiced against her by the opposition. She said the Education Ministry had introduced distance learning immediately after school closure in the first wave of the epidemic and had been in dialogue with trade unions and head teachers.

Ljubljana/Kranj/Radovljica – All primary school students and final-year secondary school students from western and central Slovenia returned to school after over four months on Monday. Headteachers reported no major difficulties in organising classes. Most students are happy to be back. Schools in the eastern part of the country closed for a week-long holiday.

The nationwide testing campaign for teachers will kick off in Bulgaria today. Rapid antigen tests will be applied to find out the so-called latent morbidity rate among teachers, BGNES reports.

The Ministry of Education is preparing an ambitious reform agenda that will begin to be implemented in 2021 and will include, among other things, teacher evaluation, universal kindergarten education for 4-year-olds, who will be taught English, a degree of autonomy for schools to set their own curriculum and monitoring the progress of university students.

Greek teachers took to the streets on Tuesday to protest an education reform bill that is being debated in Parliament, causing traffic jams on key thoroughfares in downtown Athens.

The midday march is being organized by three unions representing school teachers, who are demanding that the proposed legislation is withdrawn on the grounds that it is "anti-education."

We have been treated in recent days to yet another episode of the ongoing drama between the education unions and the ministry, where the issue at the heart of the dispute over the live-streaming of classes is the evaluation of teachers. 

With the key demand being the withdrawal of an Education Ministry bill that brings changes at all levels of education, the Greek primary teachers' federation (DOE) and the Federation of Private School Teachers (OIELE) have announced that a rally will take place Tuesday in central Athens.