Friday, during his first press conference, Pierre Josué Agénor Cadet, Minister of National Education and Vocational Training, affirmed that everything will be done, as soon as the budget is passed by Parliament, to respond favorably to just and legitimate demands of teachers in office holding their letter of appointment without receiving salary for one or more years, recalling "I am a teacher before being a Minister and I know the problems of this profession."

He also supported the application of the new wage scale, according to the budget available, starting from the next fiscal year. "The student file of the Ecole Normale Superieure will be resolved as well as those of the Universal Scholarship Program , Free and Compulsory (PSUGO)," said the Minister, who recalled that he had only been in office for about a month and a half https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-20444-haiti-politics-new-ministry-of-education-promises-changes.html and that his Ministry had inherited of debts estimated at around 7 billion Gourdes https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-20863-haiti-flash-haiti-s-economy-at-the-edge-of-the-abyss.html concerning the teachers in post and the commitments under the PSUGO and the Program of Nationalization of Community Schools (PRONEC).

He said that in order to find solutions to the various problems, he had requested as soon as he arrived, the attention of the highest authorities of the country on the urgency of the situation of the education sector. At the same time, he said that he had given instructions to the Human Resources Directorate for the preparation of the teachers' files to be transmitted to Finance and the letters of appointment of the students of the ENS. As soon as the funds are available, after the vote on the budget, they will be transmitted for useful follow-up to the bodies concerned https://www.icihaiti.com/en/news-20873-icihaiti-education-new-promises-from-the-ministry-of-education.html

He regretted that teachers' unions had launched slogans of a national strike [on Monday 8 and Tuesday 9 May 2017] despite a formal meeting with the parties concerned, a few days after taking office, where he had given all the guarantees concerning the monitoring of claims, as soon as funds are made available.

He deplores these premature union decisions which are likely to once again penalize pupils as they approach official exams and call for calm and understanding of teachers who must continue to supervise pupils and avoid street demonstrations, reminding them that the place of the pupils is in the classrooms and not in the streets.

See also :

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-20863-haiti-flash-haiti-s-economy-at-the-edge-of-the-abyss.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-20617-haiti-flash-roadmap-of-the-minister-of-national-education.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-20444-haiti-politics-new-ministry-of-education-promises-changes.html

HL/ S/ HaitiLibre