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Teachers in Bulgarian secondary schools are of record high age, unions alarm

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Only 15% of teachers in Bulgaria are under the age of 35, and 70 percent of them leave the educational system in the very first year of working there, the trade union "Education" reported to Podkrepa Confederation of Trade Unions. 

Another alarming indicator is the average age of teachers - 54 years, which is 10 years older than that of their colleagues in Europe.

"Teachers' social status and pay, support for young teachers, the lack of partnership on the part of parents - these are the first things that very seriously push young teachers away from the profession",  the chairman of the union Yulian Petrov said, explaining the reasons for this trend..



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