Slovak schools struggling to find teachers

Slovak schools have published around 3,000 job offers this year; however, it is becoming more and more complicated for them to find people willing to work as teachers, Nikola Richterova of the career website Profesia.sk told TASR on Monday. Though the number of job offers related to education published on a job website focusing on teaching posts has gone up by 16 percent year-on-year, school directors are finding it difficult to fill the vacant teaching posts. It is partly due to the decreasing interest in this profession. The number of job offers for teaching posts this year has increased more than four times when compared to the same period in 2015. Conversely, less than seven candidates on average responded to a particular teaching job offer this year, while in 2015 it was twice as many candidates.