State school teachers have been hit with the news that foreign supply teachers will be recruited for certain subjects to cater for a worrying teacher shortage. The Permanent Secretary at the Education Ministry admitted that the pool of qualified Maltese teachers for certain subjects like maths and IT isn’t enough to cater for the shortage and that foreign supply teachers will have to be hired as a result. This announcement hasn’t gone down well with Malta’s teachers’ unions.
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