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Prime Minister Victor Ponta on Sunday wished "Happy World Teacher's Day!" to all teachers in Romania, saying that Education is the most entitled to be called a strategic area.

More than 12,000 cases of abuse, neglect and child exploitation are officially recorded each year in Romania, but these represent only some of the total number of cases of violence against children, according to a report by the UN's children organisation UNICEF.

The school year will officially begin on Thursday with state primary and secondary schools short of up to 12,000 teachers.

The union representing primary school teachers has asked its members not to cooperate with the government in its bid to evaluate their performances due to fears that this will lead to job losses.

An interview of Novinite with Yuliya Georgieva, Transformational Teacher in Teach for Bulgaria.

As of September 1, the minimum salaries of Bulgarian teachers, school principals, and pedagogical experts will be increased by 3-6%, the Ministry of Education revealed.

Members of the secondary school teachers’ union (OLME) are to hold work stoppages from Wednesday through Friday in a bid to disrupt the resumption of lessons earlier than scheduled at 571 schools across the country and sabotage an attempt by the Education Ministry to allow pupils to make up for time lost due to weeks of sit-ins.

Teachers at private schools in Greece are to stage a rare strike on Wednesday, May 14, followed by work stoppages on May 21 and 22 at junior and senior high schools only.

The head of the secondary school teachers’ union OLME, Themis Kotsifakis, has told Kathimerini that he is concerned that authorities are coming down too hard on pupils after it emerged that 21 youngsters who took part in sit-in protests are to go on trial in April.