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School desperately seeking teachers
  • 26'
  • Author : Lorraine de Foucher
  • 13-03-2014
  • Master : 2330

School desperately seeking teachers | France 2 | Envoyé Spécial

A few months ago in the Paris region a mother decided to occupy the roof of a primary school to urge the Education Department to send a replacement teacher for her daughter, who had been without classes for five weeks. Every year two and a half million teaching hours are lost. Why are teachers on sick leave or training programs not always replaced? In some subjects, such as maths, can it all be explained by the shortage of teachers? The Education Ministry falls back regularly on contract or temporary teachers. How are they recruited? Inside the education administrative system we investigated how the replacement of teachers is managed.


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