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Teachers fail language inspections

Oct 08, 2008
By Matt Withers

LEARNING CURVE: An evaluation by the Language Inspectorate found that only six of 59 teachers had the requisite Estonian language skills

TALLINN - Many primary school and kindergarten teacher can’t speak Estonian well enough to teach, according to a recent sampling. Ninety six out of 104 teachers from Tallinn kindergartens and Narva schools have failed Estonian language checks carried out by the Language Inspectorate. After extensive assessment the Language Inspectorate, a government institution under the jurisdiction of the Education Ministry, ordered all but eight of the teachers to take an Estonian language exam in ...

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