Germany is looking toward Greece to help fill a shortage of kindergarten teachers and is offering them four times and more much money than they would get in Greece – if they could be appointed while the government is cutting back on hiring because of a financial crisis.
According to German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung and other media reports, Greek teachers could fill vacant posts in Germany and receive as much as 2,600 euros a month, compared to about 600 for starting teachers in Greece.
Headlined Help from Athens, the paper writes that many Greek kindergarten teachers are adequately trained and yet unemployed and could easily find work in Germany. Unemployment in Greece for those under 25 is 54.9 percent while Germany – which is footing much of the bill to bail out Greece’s economy – is Europe’s biggest economy.
The newspaper wrote that, “Germany is desperately looking for kindergarten teachers. In Greece, many specialized teachers remain jobless with little hope of being appointed for years. The Organization of the Evangelical Church in Munich called Innere Mission has already hired 10 Greek nursery school teachers, who the paper said “are much better trained than many other German colleagues of theirs.”
(Source: Deutsche Welle)
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