Estonian language inspectors find offenses, issue misdemeanors

  • 2007-06-20
  • from wire report

Estonian language inspectors have found in a recent visit tothe East-Viru country vocational education center that that all but one of theteachers were unable to speak Estonian at the required level. The teachers whofailed will be required to take another test before October 1.

The inspectors also issued misdemeanors to 42 teachers whofailed to improve their language skills as per orders from previous year'sinspections.

 The inspectors also visited the nearby East-Viru countycentral hospital, where they required 466 employees of the hospital to take thelanguage tests. Approximately 200 misdemeanors were handed out at the hospital.