In light of high inflation and rising costs, the City of Tallinn has drawn up a conservative state budget strategy for the next four years. Nonetheless, Estonia's capital city will be moving forward with several key investments, including construction of the planned major Tallinn Hospital and the renovation of the Soviet-era Linnahall complex.
Given that a teacher with an advanced degree earns the same salary as those with only secondary education, is it any wonder Estonia is experiencing a “teacher succession drought”?
Municipal schools in Tallinn will send students in grades 4-8 to remote learning this week after a city government decision last week, but Tallinn French Lyceum and the Tallinn Secondary School of Science have decided to stick with contact learning.
Some Tallinn schools are hoping that the coronavirus pandemic does not lead to a situation where children accepted into the first grade for next academic year are done so on the basis of residence, rather than through passing an entrance exam as is normally the case. While schools that do run entrance exams for first graders, really rather more reasoning tests, but still requiring literacy – including Tallinn English School and the Old Town Educational College – do so in the first half of February, with a view to the capital s board of education getting its lists of admissions by March 1, the pandemic has caused problems in terms of adhering to coronavirus best practices and often-changing regulations.