Brussels, 05/10/2015 (Agence Europe) - For World Teachers' Day, marked on 5 October, Eurostat, the EU's statistical office, published figures on the teaching staff by gender and by age in member states in 2013. What is immediately apparent is that women predominate. Also striking is that the average age of the teaching staff is growing older.
In 2013, 8.3 million persons worked as teaching staff (from pre-primary to tertiary level) in the European Union. 5.8 million (70%) were women. Women...