Belgian trainee teachers fail in basic general knowledgeBRUSSELS (Reuters) - A large number of Belgium's future secondary school teachers struggle with basic concepts of geography, politics and history, a study published on Wednesday has shown. Among final year teaching students involved in the study, one in three could not identify the United States on a map and almost half did not know where the Pacific Ocean was. Shown a picture of Mao Zedong, two in three could not recognise the Chinese Communist leader, with the most common response being that it was the late North Korean leader Kim Jong-il. ...
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