The return to school following the end of year celebrations has barely begun at the University of Antananarivo and the teachers are now stopping classes. Classes resumed the week of January 9 for most faculties, but on Friday January 13, the Union of Teacher Researchers and Teacher Researchers (SECES), Antananarivo branch, said in a statement that teachers will not resume classes without that there are new decisions at the level of the National Council of the union which will be held soon.
Time passes, the school year advances, classes have barely started, and the problems of these teachers do not yet seem to be resolved. In its press release, SECES Antananarivo mentioned that no glimmer of hope is emerging on the horizon regarding their rights and values. This is particularly the case of their research and investigation allowances for retired researchers as well as the balances on additional hours and vacations as well as the publication of the decree concerning Law No. 2021-005 relating to the status of research professors and teacher researchers.
The SECES Antananarivo also hardens the tone in relation to those who monopolize the property of the university, such as this case of land in Ankatso which has caused a lot of ink to flow, without however mentioning it directly. The union then appeals to the responsibilities of the State, and of the state authorities concerned, to protect common property. Teachers are asking those who hold the power borrowed from them to resign if they dare not make decisions in this direction.
The third point mentioned by the teacher-researcher union in its press release relating to this new wave of suspension of courses concerns the exclusion of those who do not meet the conditions to integrate the body of teachers who are nevertheless part of it. ” We are strict regarding the category of work we are in “, underlines the union in this statement. The unionized teachers thus say they are opposed to all forms of pressure and orders from above which decree the recruitment of teacher-researchers within universities.
In the reasons given to justify this decision, which unfortunately only penalizes and takes the students hostage, the teachers have not claimed everything. No one knows that the Union of Research Teachers is the main instigator of the bill on the autonomy of the universities of Madagascar that the High Constitutional Court (HCC) rejected last year on the pretext of the non-compliance of certain articles yet adopted. by the two constitutional legislative chambers. Amended and passed by Parliament in recent months, this law is once once more awaiting the approval of the HCC before being promulgated by the Head of State. But obviously the SECES is not yet playing its full card.
