Well-informed sources unveiled that the number of complaints filed by teachers on the Ministry of Education's website increased from 20,000 to 60,000 by the end of the last day available to receive complaints. Speaking to Al-Masry Al-Youm, an official source said complaints have not been counted yet. Al-Masry Al-Youm has learnt that Education Minister Yousri Al-Gamal called on those responsible for investigating complaints to check them electronically in order to avoid receiving a single complaint more than once (by fax, post and the Internet). Complaints are being counted, Al-Gamal said, adding that a large number of teachers filed more than a complaint. This showed that the number of complainants is larger than the actual number that will be announced during the coming days, as the minister put it. The ministry is taking the necessary measures to apply the pay-scale to the teachers who passed the three tests. The new rise will be put into effect from early December. In a related context, there have been new contradictions in the results of teachers. Mohamed Sayeed, teacher of English at a secondary school, and Gamal Moussa, teacher of social studies at Mohamed Tawfiq Diab School at Menya Al-Qamh, Sharqia governorate, passed the test, but the result said they did not. Yousri Adly, teacher of French at Umm Al-Mo'meneen Girls Secondary School for 34 years, said that, according to the result, he was a teacher of Arabic and did not pass the test. Some complainants described the result as a "farce", adding that it created "unhealthy" atmosphere in educational institutions, as students ironically ask about the result of their teachers. For his part, Dr Ahmed Fahmi, advisor to the Minister of Education, held teachers responsible for the errors in the results because they made mistakes while filling the answer sheets. A single teacher filed 500 complaints on the ministry's website, he added.
