Pay teachers more, it's embarrassing

(ANSA) - Rome, October 15 - Education Minister Lorenzo Fioramonti said Tuesday that Italian teachers should be paid more.
    "It's embarrassing," he told a joint session of the parliamentary educations committees on his agenda.
    Fioramonti stressed the importance of "giving value" to the work of the teaching body, students, and other staff.
    "We need better trained teachers, and better paid ones too.
    "We can't allow, also out of national pride, that our teachers be paid less than other countries, also in countries similar to us like Spain.
    "It becomes embarrassing," he repeated, "also for the credibility of the country".
    On Monday Fioramonti said teachers should get specific teacher training as they do in other countries.
    "A university degree is not enough," he said.
    Italy's teachers are among the lowest paid in the European Union.