More money for teachers, but not for all

The emerging coalition’s plan to increase salaries for new teachers in order to get more young people to take up the profession has not been well received in schools. Headmasters point out that all teachers are severely underpaid and giving new teachers a higher starting salary than that paid to people with 18 or more years of experience will create bad blood. A teacher’s starting salary is now approximately 13,000 crowns a month, that of a teacher with 30 years’ experience is approximately 23,000.