7,000 teachers to move north for steady jobs says Giannini

(ANSA) - Rome, September 2 - Some 7,000 teachers will be moving from the south to the north this year, the same as last year, but this time they are getting steady jobs, Education Minister Stefania Giannini said in a press conference Wednesday.
    Last year they were working as supply teachers, she said.
    The second phase of teacher hirings will mean a "major" transfer of jobs from south to north, Giannini stressed. "Most of the transfers will be from Sicily to the north, above all Lombardy," she said. Many teachers would also leave Campania for the north and also Lazio, "especially to Rome and the surrounding area," she said.
    A second round of 55,000 teacher hires will be made by mid-November, Giannini said. That will mean about seven more teachers per school, she said. The new hires will come on top of 100,000 in the first round of hirings.