Several Maldivian MPs used a parliamentary debate on a bill of amendments to the Education Act — which also proposes establishing a homeschooling system, submitted by Huraa MP Anara Naeem — to call for higher teachers' salaries and benefits. MPs warned of declining interest in teacher training and a looming national teacher shortage, with one proposing that the Education Ministry be made an independent institution.
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Teachers must be made the profession which earns the highest in any island
We are going into a national level crisis due to a shortage of teachers, why is this? Because of the obstinacy of political leaders. There is no need to point to any individual party in this
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Several MPs advocated for raising teachers' salaries in today's debate on the bill of amendments to the Education Act, including establishing a homeschooling system, submitted by Huraa MP Anara Naeem.
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