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The Education Ministry plans to scrap its extended schools program as of the new academic year starting in September, Kathimerini understands.

Under the existing program, school day is extended to 4 p.m. The two extra hours, which help working parents, are used for extra-curriculum activities.

The Education Ministry has issued a circular in line with a recent legal change allowing public servants to attend Friday prayers without interrupting their office hours. According to the circular, schools across Turkey will be able to adjust their schedules and extend lunch-breaks for teachers.

All teachers in Albania with fewer than 20 years' experience are being tested in order to measure their abilities in the first-ever attempt to work out what professional training is required across the country.

On January 23, around 15,000 teachers all over Albania are going to take the test; around 4,000 more in the Tirana municipality have already taken it in November 2015.

Bulgarian teachers are paid the lowest salaries among European countries.

This is shown by the latest annual report of Eurydice on Teachers' and School Heads' Salaries and Allowances conducted in 36 European countries during the 2014/2015 school year.

With an average wage of EUR 4970 per year, teachers in Bulgaria rank at the bottom.

The Bulgarian government adopted on Wednesday a concept on encouraging the training of software specialists, which foresees creating conditions for the training of an additional 30 000 experts in the next fifteen years.

Thousands of teachers working in Turkey's southeastern provinces of Cizre and Silopi have started fleeing to their hometowns, less than 24 hours before the announcement of indeterminate curfews in the two towns.

As Turkey celebrates Teachers' Day on Nov. 24, uncertainty over a proposed paid apprenticeship and "Teachers Academy" has set tongues wagging among the country's almost 900,000 educators.

World Teachers Day may have been celebrated two months ago, but Turkey is getting ready to celebrate Teachers Day tomorrow. Teachers have been remembered every year on Nov. 24 since 1981, the anniversary of the founding of National Schools in Turkey, which taught literacy to a country transitioning into the Latin alphabet.

Almost 18 million students and 900,000 teachers, as well as more than 300,000 Syrian students, will start the first day of the academic year on Sept. 28.

Friday marks the traditional blessing ceremony for schools around Greece, signaling the start of another school year. The 2015-2016 school bell with knell for 1,300,000 school students who will kick off the year with a teacher shortage. As if the 25,000 missing teachers were not enough, there is also the 23% VAT hike for private schools still up in the air!