16 Oct, 2016 @ 16:30
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Teachers in Spain among highest paid in the world

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Spanish teacherTEACHERS in Spain are among the highest paid in the world.

A new report has shown that a starting salary for a lower secondary teacher in Spain in 2014 was around €36,000.

It puts Spain fifth out of the 36 developed countries that were analysed by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

The entry level salary was nearly €7,600 above the OECD average, and was only behind Luxembourg (€70,000), Switzerland (€53,500), Germany (€50,000) and Denmark (€41,000).

 

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence has a BA and MA in International Relations and a Gold Standard diploma in Multi-Media journalism from News Associates in London. He was news editor for all print editions of the Olive Press from 2016 to 2019 taking on the role of Digital Editor between January 2020 and February 2021.

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2 Comments

  1. Needed reform does not solely depend on decent salaries, though that helps. Critical factor remains recruiting higher quality students in terms of both intelligence and personality characteristics and, of course reforming many of the educational standards and testing procedure to encourage and teach life-long independent learning skills.

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