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Sad news on Teachers' Day: Armenian education official speaks of layoffs
13:48 - 05.10.13
A deputy director of Armenia's National Education Institute said
Saturday that an earlier promise to raise the salaries of secondary
school teachers has now caused the government to think of layoffs.
At a news conference devoted to the Teachers' Day, Anahit Bakhshyan
said that school principals are periodically invited to the financial
departments of regional community administrations and the Yerevan City
Hall for considering plans of personnel optimization.
Bakhshyan, a former opposition MP of the Heritage party and a
pedagogue by profession, said many principals have applied to the
Institute with complaints that they do not wish any layoffs and have
the necessary financial resources. She said there is absolutely no
legal document necessitating such a measure.
The amount of funding in state-run secondary schools, which are
registered as non-commercial organizations in Armenia, depends on the
number of pupils. Those schools have the right to independently manage
their fund, without the state's intervention.
`The methodical board chair is the person responsible for coordinating
teachers' work on a bunch of subjects or a single subject. If you do
not pay that person, he will not do what he is supposed to,' she said.
Teachers of the Armenian language and mathematics have been paid more
since the Soviet times for checking written papers, but the new
reforms propose that the extra payments be removed.
That point in the reforms package appeared to be the only thing to
which the opposition MP demonstrated an understanding approach.
Bakshyan said it would be fair to either pay the pedagogues an equal
sum for checking written papers or exclude the extra payments for all.
Armenian News - Tert.am
13:48 - 05.10.13
A deputy director of Armenia's National Education Institute said
Saturday that an earlier promise to raise the salaries of secondary
school teachers has now caused the government to think of layoffs.
At a news conference devoted to the Teachers' Day, Anahit Bakhshyan
said that school principals are periodically invited to the financial
departments of regional community administrations and the Yerevan City
Hall for considering plans of personnel optimization.
Bakhshyan, a former opposition MP of the Heritage party and a
pedagogue by profession, said many principals have applied to the
Institute with complaints that they do not wish any layoffs and have
the necessary financial resources. She said there is absolutely no
legal document necessitating such a measure.
The amount of funding in state-run secondary schools, which are
registered as non-commercial organizations in Armenia, depends on the
number of pupils. Those schools have the right to independently manage
their fund, without the state's intervention.
`The methodical board chair is the person responsible for coordinating
teachers' work on a bunch of subjects or a single subject. If you do
not pay that person, he will not do what he is supposed to,' she said.
Teachers of the Armenian language and mathematics have been paid more
since the Soviet times for checking written papers, but the new
reforms propose that the extra payments be removed.
That point in the reforms package appeared to be the only thing to
which the opposition MP demonstrated an understanding approach.
Bakshyan said it would be fair to either pay the pedagogues an equal
sum for checking written papers or exclude the extra payments for all.
Armenian News - Tert.am