There should be free period hygiene articles at Munich schools. The schools can purchase the products from their own budget. As Stadtschulrat Florian Kraus reports, the decision as to whether they want to provide such hygiene products is up to the school family.The legal examination has shown that period hygiene products cannot be counted as material expenses, but the city of Munich wants to assume the costs as a voluntary service. The department for education and sport now wants to...
Three years after the outbreak of the corona pandemic, an assessment is made. Did politicians make the right decisions? Did she rely too much on the virologists and not hear enough from other scientists? Which measures were appropriate, which excessive? Eva Rehfuess teaches Public Health at the Ludwig Maximilian University. Your subject focuses on the health of the population and thus also on the - positive and negative - consequences of preventive measures. With Corona, that was suddenly in demand...
With skis in my luggage for a week in the Alps with an expensive ski pass. That no longer exists at the Christian-Ernestinum high school in Bayreuth. The ski camp will be replaced by less expensive school trips, says headmaster Franz Eisentraut. "From an educational point of view, such a community experience outside of school with overnight stays is very important," says the director of studies. "But you can have that just as well in the Fichtelgebirge or Franconian Switzerland."That's...
Across the Channel, the inhabitants did not take off, strangled by soaring prices. This Wednesday, hundreds of thousands of teachers, railway workers and public officials are mobilized in London for the biggest day of strikes in a decade in the United Kingdom.In the aftermath of a day of protests in France against pension reform and on the eve of Conservative Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's first 100 days in power, up to half a million Britons were called to walk out...
STORY: The biggest mass strike in decades has started in Great Britain. Hundreds of thousands of civil servants demonstrated on Wednesday for higher wages. Schools remained closed, rail services ground to a halt, and the military was put on standby to help with border controls. The strikers are demanding above-inflation wage increases to meet skyrocketing food and energy bills. It is estimated that up to half a million teachers, civil servants, train drivers and university lecturers are taking part in...
14:4750% of strikers in schools on Tuesday, according to the 1st primary unionThe Snuipp-FSU, the leading primary union, predicted on Monday that half of first-degree teachers would be on strike as part of the second day of national mobilization against pension reform on Tuesday."There is no surprise, we knew that we would not go up to 70% as during the first mobilization. But 50% remains a very good figure which shows who the protest movement against the reform of the...
Status: 01/30/2023 10:35 a.m The corona measures are gradually coming to an end - and soon the mask requirement on buses and trains will also be coming to an end. Federal Minister of Health Lauterbach now took stock and acknowledged mistakes: Schools and daycare centers, for example, had been closed for too long. Federal Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach was critical of the corona policy in Germany. In retrospect, it was wrong to keep schools and daycare centers closed for...
Schools are understaffed, so everyone should teach more. is that fair no But the fact that so many teachers don't even work 50 percent is hard to place.comment by Paul MunzingerThe more the teacher shortage worsens, the clearer it becomes that the coming years will be painful. Not for everyone who has to do with school - there is always a group somewhere that successfully keeps society's problems at bay. But for many. Because there are no good answers to...
As of: 01/27/2023 6:52 p.m Bavaria is trying money, Brandenburg is tempting with quick official appointments, Saxony-Anhalt with a four-day week, others rely on pensioners: the federal states are taking remarkable steps to recruit teachers. He prefers not to reveal his name. Just this much: He is in his mid-forties and has been a primary school teacher in a small community in southern Brandenburg for two and a half years. A career changer job. The man was a successful salesman...
schools UN warn of education crisis in East and South Africa International Education Day is celebrated annually on January 24th. photo © Frank May/dpa Too many African children still do not receive an adequate school education. In addition to the lack of teachers, this is mainly due to tight budgets, criticize the United Nations. On today's International Education Day, the United Nations are warning of an intensification of the education crisis in East and Southern Africa. A joint statement by...
