It came up in a private foundation study this week in Germany....that within six years....the nation of Germany will be short on teachers by roughly 26,000 teachers.
This study (by Bertelsmann) says that this shortage will be apparent by 2025. Curiously, if you go to the government study of the issue....Bertelsmann's report is about 40-percent higher.
All of this is pointing at a higher number of teachers to be recruited and hired....who have a degree but never had an intention to be a teacher. So you have an accounting degree gal, who decides at age 28 to slip over and become a teacher, or a hydraulics-degree guy who decides at age 35 to start a second career as a teacher.
Why the shortage? Various journalists tell different aspects of this issue and it's left to the general public to question these.
There's no doubt that it's a career field that most would prefer to avoid. Between stress and aggravation....teaching isn't for everyone.
Pay? A primary-school teacher gets on average around 33k Euro (around $42k dollars).
This shortage starts to become apparent? I'm guessing here that some emergency money would be found and retiring teachers offered an unbelievable deal to step back into the classroom for a year or two....while they hunt for fresh new teachers and offer up bonuses for them.
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