Over the past years, the state has been keen to support teachers in improving their material and living conditions, as wages have been increased and raised teachers After increasing the teacher’s allowance, as well as the minimum wage, performance incentive, and exam reward, regarding 1.4 million teachers in Education and Al-Azhar, and regarding 700,000 assistant employees, benefit from the increases, with a total cost of up to 6.1 billion pounds, and this cost includes the monthly increases that teachers and their supporting staff will receive. education, as well as financial support for the Teachers Welfare Fund. The state has also provided teachers with vocational training on an ongoing basis to raise their professional capabilities.
In the context of supporting education development efforts and providing a distinguished learning environment, the political leadership agreed to appoint 150,000 teachers over 5 years to fill the deficit in faculty members and meet the needs of developing the education sector.
While the Ministry of Education and Technical Education confirmed that, in order to achieve the principle of equality between teachers, the Ministry issued a decision regarding the implementation of the principle of equality between the appointed teachers who teach the additional class and the teachers contracting with the quota.
The Ministry of Education and Technical Education stated that the decision came following receiving the approval of the Minister of Finance, Dr. Mohamed Maait, and includes evaluating the quota at (20 pounds) instead of (3.80 pounds), in order to achieve the principle of equality between appointed and contracted teachers to bridge the deficit.
In continuation to support teachers, the Ministry of Education and Technical Education is studying the launch of the “Teacher’s Support” program, which is the distribution of a smart card to each teacher, so that this card is used in an immediate machine on the teacher’s support system to score points according to the quality of service provided by the teacher in the classroom. Points on each reserve share or each share in excess of his quorum or his work as supervision, by passing the teacher’s card in an Fawry machine and identifying the service provided by the teacher to be converted into points, then these points are collected at the end of the month to be converted into a monetary consideration.
The ministry explained: It is part of the ministry’s support for the position of the teacher and in appreciation of his role in the educational process, and aims primarily to improve teachers’ conditions and achieve job satisfaction for them, and will be linked to rewarding teachers for every effort and additional work they do, explaining that the project to reward teachers for additional efforts in Schools, this will be in the form of points that will be placed in the teacher’s account, to benefit from them later, explaining that the first features of the project are that any teacher who receives extra shares will have a return and reward commensurate with the effort he made, provided that the announcement will be made soon. This major project, in addition to activating the social welfare fund for teachers and their assistants, established by a republican decree in 2020, to improve the financial conditions of teachers and their assistants.
