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| OLD PROBLEMS AT THE START OF A NEW SCHOOL YEAR 18/09/2008 |
| (2008-09-18) |
| Last updated: 2008-09-19 20:38 EET |
Trade unions with the Romanian education system have voiced discontent at the 9% pay rise to be granted to the teaching staff, as of October the first and continue to call for a 54% pay rise. They have accused the political class and the government of showing despise towards the teaching staff saying that a legislative initiative of rising the teachers’ salaries by 54 %, endorsed by the Senate in April has been now replaced with a government decision providing for a rise much below this figure.
Here is Marius Nistor, executive president of the Spiru Haret union federation
“I remained dumbfounded when I saw the barter between the Social Democrat representative and Prime Minister Calin Popescu Tariceanu on pay rises in education. We guarantee our politicians that we’ll be making them an unprecedented popularity show before schools in Romania.”
The unions have threatened they will symbolically punish through votes the politicians’ position towards education and the teaching staff, during the parliamentary elections scheduled for November the 30th.
Education however was the subject of two simple motions tabled these days, one in the Chamber of Deputies and another in the Senate. They both mentioned the same problems, the lack of a legislative framework for education, the high drop-out rate, the inappropriate use of available funds, called for the resignation of the education minister and a 50% rise of the teachers’ pay. The only difference was the party to initiate the move. The motion filed by the Social-Democrats has been endorsed by the deputies, while that fowarded by the Liberal Democrats, has been rejected by Senators. Also on Wednesday senators rejected the government’s emmergency ordinance under which school labs frequented by 9th and 10th graders had to be fitted with computer networks.
The government boasted that decision while the parliamentary opposition considered it election alms. However, the situation on the ground is worrying: 9 in 23 thousand schools are still under restoration works, while a third of them haven’t got sanitary approvals yet. Kindergartens are in the same situation, being thinly staffed and confronted with an acute lack of places.
Moreover, the shortage of personnel is rampant in the Romanian education system. Dissatisfied with small wages, teachers and instructors have abandoned the system for better paid jobs or have chosen to emigrate. Lacking any solution to this issue, the authorities have resorted to improvisation, employing retired teachers and substitutes.
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