Teacher raises made public

In the middle of an election campaign in which wages have been a prominent issue, the Ministry of Education did something out of the ordinary Monday: It made public the official pay scale it uses to remunerate its teachers.

The list contains figures that are somewhat difficult to make sense of, but one thing is clear: teachers across the board have been promised pay rises. Pen Phalla, deputy director of the Ministry of Education’s staff department, would not confirm yesterday what had prompted the pay increases or why the pay scale had been made public so close to July 28’s election. ...

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