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Egypt's education minister says teachers demands to be met
Published in Bikya Masr on 19 - 09 - 2011

CAIRO: Egyptian Minister of Education Ahmed Gamal el-Din Moussa said that the teachers currently on strike will have most of their demands met. He told an Egyptian television program that the unusual strike will see most of their “demands met by the government.”
He said during an interview with ‘Etegahat' TV program on Egypt's national television on Sunday evening that teachers' cal for minimum wages, estimated at 3,000 Egyptian pounds is important, “while other teachers say they deserve more than that.”
He said the ministry of finance has “current problems with that, but they are trying their best to reach this demand.”
Activists and teachers say the strike has reached almost 80 percent of all Egyptian schools on the second day of the strike.
Hala Talaat, a founding member of the Alternative Teachers Syndicate told the Egyptian newspaper el-Badeel that the ministry's statistics are “false,” adding that there are “entire governates' schools on strike such as in al-Monofiya, in the Dela region, north of Cairo.”
The calls for the strike was issued by the Independent Teachers Syndicate earlier this month, under the banner “a school year with no teachers” as a pressure method to improve teachers' lives and the overall education quality in Egypt.
The alternative syndicate said the strike is in effect until Thursday if their demands are not met and on Friday they will mobilize for a “million man march.”
The striking teachers are calling for better working conditions and fair wages. Their list of demands include a 3,000 Egyptian Pounds ($510) minimum wage for teachers, hiring all temporary teachers who have been working at their posts for years, but are deprived of the benefits of hired teachers and the resignation of the current minister and what they called “cleansing” the ministry of all the old regime's affiliates.
Some teachers receive a basic salary as low as 200 Egyptian pounds ($34).
The teachers are also calling for criminalizing private lessons, a mainstream norm for students, which the teacher says has contributed in the “worsening of the quality of education” in schools.
Official reports by the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistic (CAPMAS) say Egyptian families spend 10 percent of their income on private tutors.
The report said 81 percent of high school students, 74 percent of junior high students and 50 percent of elementary school get private lessons.
** Manar Ammar contributed to this report.
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