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As has been repeatedly announced by the political leadership of the Ministry of Education, and the previous and the current, is on…
direct pursuits of our coverage of the greater part of the gaps of those who are temporarily empty, but it shall cover fixed and permanent needs and so need to be filled with permanent appointments, and we can over the next three years to make twenty thousand permanent recruitment for teachers in the state.
The above is said in Parliament under parliamentary control, the secretary of state for Education, mr Μπαξεβανάκης filling: There is a given situation, which is good to not pretend all of that is ignored. The fiscal situation of the country is that the entire Greek society knows, and it’s good to don’t we all believe in our discussions that we are talking in a vacuum. In the given, then, the conditions for the current school year have been secured appropriations for the hiring of approximately twenty-one thousand deputies of teachers. And I refer to both levels of education, primary and secondary.
Mr. Μπαξεβανάκης gave numbers by saying: in Particular, in secondary education, which refers to the topical question, have so far recruited more than five and a half thousands of substitute teachers and, overall, on both tiers have hired more than seventeen thousand. We’ll get to the number of twenty-one thousand, for which we have secured commitments and we believe that the overwhelming part of the gaps will be covered.
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