Germany has recruited 8,500 extra teachers to educate child refugees this year, according to German media.

The teachers have been hired to give special language lessons to the 196,000 asylum seekers of school age who entered Germany in 2015.

'Schools and education administrations have never been confronted with such a challenge,' Brunhild Kurth, who heads Germany's education authority, was quoted as saying by the German media.

'We must accept that this exceptional situation will become the norm for a long time to come,' Kurth said.

CNN obtained confirmation that 300 additional teachers of German as a second language have been hired this year in Saxony, a state in the east of Germany. The state plans to recruit 190 more by February.

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