According to a recent study, one in three German primary schools have reported violence against teachers. Across all German schools, half have reported psychological violence against educators.
The current nationwide shortage of primary school teachers is set to increase significantly over the next seven years, according to a study published on Wednesday.
Despite a major 2015 Constitutional Court ruling striking down absolute headscarf bans in schools, a lower court has rejected a case brought by a woman who was not allowed to teach due to wearing the garment.
Germany has recruited 8,500 people to teach child refugees German, as the country expects the number of new arrivals to soar past the million mark in 2015, Die Welt daily reported on Sunday.
German language teachers demonstrated in Berlin on Wednesday, complaining that their work in integrating foreigners into German society is not given the financial recognition it deserves.
Teachers plan to walk out in turn on Tuesday after the first in a series of nation-wide public sector strikes took place at the University Hospital in Essen on Monday.
Teachers all over the country are expected to stike starting Monday, German education trade union GEW said, after negotiations with the wage commission of the federal states (TdL) failed to achieve results.
Germany will fail to meet several of the goals it set six years ago to improve education levels for children and young adults by the end of 2015, a new study shows.
A school trip was cancelled after just one day when two teachers got so drunk while they were supposed to be looking after pupils in Hamburg that police had to be called.
Authorities are investigating a teacher whose pupils allegedly caught him watching pornography multiple times when he was taking science lessons, it was reported on Tuesday.
Every summer thousands of teachers are forced to survive on unemployment benefits because their contracts only run during term time, it emerged on Monday.
Public service union Verdi called on Tuesday for teachers to strike in Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Lower Saxony and Bremen, after 5,000 walked out of Berlin's schools on Monday. Over the coming weeks, each state could be affected.
Planned nationwide public sector strikes began on Monday in Berlin as staff walked out of around 100 schools in a wage dispute. Substitute staff have, for the most part, been put in place.
A German teacher being investigated for calling a student a nigger has been shifted around from school to school for at least 12 years because his racism upsets parents – but authorities are struggling to fire him.
Cologne authorities are bracing themselves for a telling off after suggesting teachers in the city pay up to €50 a month to park their cars at school, it was reported on Monday.
A teacher who seduced a 14-year-old schoolgirl and had sex with her at least 22 times has escaped punishment after a German court ruled that as he did not teach her class, he had not abused his position.
The German DPhV educational association has called on teachers from Eastern Europe to fill some 40,000 empty spots at schools in Germany this autumn, daily <i>Bild</i> reported on Monday.
In a bid to keep Berlin’s teachers from escaping to higher paying jobs in other cities, the city-state government has decided to increase their salaries by almost 50 percent each month, daily <i>Der Tagesspiegel</i> reported this week.
Thousands of public workers staged temporary strikes in a wage dispute with the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the city-state of Hamburg on Thursday, shutting down schools and local administration offices.
