Teacher

Four military teachers from the Maltepe Military High School in the western province of İzmir have been acquitted after they were charged for screening episodes of the TV show Games of Thrones in a classroom to help students improve their English.

65% of teachers in Bulgaria were victims of violence. This was announced by the Chief of the Syndication of Bulgarian Teachers Yanka Takeva at the opening of a discussion on young pedagogues, which took place at the 119th Sofia School "Mihail Arnaudov" in Sofia.

Even if universities stopped registering students to their teaching programs, it would take a decade for the current teacher candidates to be properly employed, daily Cumhuriyet reported on Jan. 8.

Education Minister Costas Gavroglou on Wednesday admitted to signing an agreement with Greece's international creditors for state teachers to work a minimum of 30 hours a week, but suggested that forcing Greek teachers was unfair as they have been overburdened due to austerity cuts.

Primary and nursery school teachers protest outside the Education Ministry, in Maroussi, northern Athens, Friday. Protesters are demanding that a two-year preschool education be made compulsory. They are also calling for more teacher hirings to fill vacancies at schools across the country. [ANA-MPA]

About 3500 young teachers started work this school year, which is more than 4 times more than the previous one, when about 800 people were newly recruited.

97.6% of teachers stated that there was an increase of the administrative burden and only 1.5% of them feel okay with the paperwork, reports sega. 

When we think of teachers, we often don’t think of people who are hot and gorgeous. We tend to think of teachers as people who don’t put a lot of focus into their looks and are more worried about educating the future of the world. In fact, there are running jokes dedicated to how teachers are usually less attractive than the general population.

According to Eurostat statistics Denmark invests the most in it's education. Bulgaria is once again at the bottom of this list. Other countries that impress with ranking are Sweden, Beligum and Finnland - paying over 6% of the GDP for education. Countries paying under 4% apart from Bulgaria are Italy, Ireland and Romania.

Nearly half of the I to XII grade teachers are aged over 55, which means they are retiring in the coming years. Reports Mediapool.