There will be higher salaries for teachers when budgetary conditions are created for it, and the Ministry of Education and Science asks them to continue contributing to the knowledge of students this school year, said Education Minister Vesna Janevska on Friday.
“If anyone wants teachers to have a better standard, it is I, their minister and the government but I don’t want them to get 3% raises, I want them to get 30% raises as soon as tomorrow if that were possible, Minister Janevska said in a response to a reporter’s question about increasing teachers’ wages.
According to Janevska, she had inherited a Ministry of Education budget that “had been spent in six months instead of one year.” She said she faced “a huge budget hole” that included uncertain salaries and textbooks as well as unpaid obligations to students.
“I am asking teachers, as I experience them right now, to be guided by the same passion they had when they enrolled their studies, when they chose their profession. Let’s push through this year by sheer will and desire to contribute to the students’ knowledge, to contribute to the country’s progress,” Minister Janevska said, adding that teachers would receive their due when the state was able to provide it.
