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AVERAGE SALARY IN EDUCATION SHOULD BE RAISED UP TO AVERAGE SALARY IN NATIONAL ECONOMY - SDP
Chisinau. In order to provide the high-quality and advanced education system the teachers’ minimal salary should be brought to 1.5 thousand lei and their average salary to the level of the average wage in the national economy. The Social Democratic Party has put forward such proposal in order to improve the situation in the educational sphere.
On Wednesday at a news conference in Infotag SDP Chairman Dumitru Bragiş proposed to make a number of amendments in the Education Code. They include: increase of investments in the education up to 9-10% of the GDP, reform of the teaching process of the technical education in such way, so that Lyceum graduates would have a qualified profession on the European standards level.
When asked by Infotag to name the sources for the salary increase, Bragiş said that financial resources can be raised at the cost of the expenditures optimization.
“The Cahul-Giurgiuleti railway section could with equal success be driven not at the cost of budget resources, but at the cost of the private sector. Hundred of millions from the budget could be used for financing the education. If we study carefully the budget expenditures for each year, each time we could discover considerable sums, which could have been invested in the education system”, he considers.
SDP Deputy Chairperson Loretta Handrabura remarked that at present the financing of the education covers only 30% of its needs.
She also said that according to the new Code of Education the University norm envisages 550-600 academic hours a year, whereas the European standards constitutes 300-400 hours depending on the scientists’ titles and qualification degree.
In the SDP Deputy Chairperson’s opinion, the Code of Education does not
cope with many key educational problems – such, for example, as the acute lack of teachers or the salary problem.
According to the SDP leadership, the Party’s recommendations on the improvement of the situation in the education system will be offered for discussing them in the Parliament, when debates on the Code of Education begin.
The Code of Education was worked out on the initiative of Moldovan President Vladimir Voronin. The document must be approved by the Parliament before the end of this year. The Code envisages, in particular, that the state secondary and higher educational institutions must enlist students without charging any fee for education and only private secondary and higher educational institutions can enlist students on a contractual basis.
