2,000 children and young people have fled to Bremen since the beginning of the war
Around 50 teachers from Ukraine want to teach
Education Authority is also asking for help for retired teachers
Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, around 2,000 children and young people have fled to Bremen. In order to teach them, teachers are needed. Around 50 Ukrainian teachers have reported to the Bremen education department for this purpose, according to the authority.
Some could be used immediately. Bremerhaven also wants to hire Ukrainian teachers and is working on an unbureaucratic solution. Teachers who have worked at Bremen schools for the past five years and are retired were also asked for help.
According to the authorities, almost 600 of the 2,000 young people from Ukraine have already applied to get a place at school. Due to the upcoming school examinations, only 340 of them have been assigned to the schools so far. By the beginning of the Easter holidays, a total of around 7,000 people from the Ukraine had arrived in Bremen and Bremerhaven.
Welcome classes to prepare
“In Bremerhaven, immigrant and refugee students with little or no knowledge of German are initially admitted to the welcome classes,” says Volker Heigenmooser. The speaker reports on 17 courses for a total of 210 students. Further courses and locations are already planned. School-age children have been and will continue to be distributed across the city by age and level of knowledge, the spokesman said.
There will soon be further courses for students with a better knowledge of German. “The total capacity will then be around 460 places and thus roughly corresponds to the currently reported number of school-age children from Ukraine,” says Heigenmooser about buten un binnen.
Teachers are reporting in all federal states
To date, around 7,500 pupils have been registered at schools in Lower Saxony after fleeing Ukraine. In Lower Saxony, around 1.1 million schoolchildren regularly go to around 3,000 schools.
According to a media report, hundreds of applications from Ukrainian teachers had also been received in other federal states. Bavaria has already hired 200 welcome workers with Ukrainian language skills, Saxony 122 and Hesse even 400.
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Bremen Eins, Rundschau in the afternoon, April 25, 2022, 4 p.m
