While the last Council of Ministers did not mention the situation of teacher-researchers, the latter decided to continue their “dead universities” days started three weeks ago.
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With our correspondent in Antananarivo, Laetitia Bezain
Classrooms are empty and students revise on campus without knowing when they will be able to take their exams. For more than two months, the union of teacher-researchers of the capital has been demanding, among other things, the payment of additional hours and vacations for teacher-researchers for the last three university years. And for that, a strike is in place.
In front of the Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences of the University of Antananarivo, Toby tries to complete his classes with a friend. ” Classes were interrupted so we couldn’t finish the program at all. There, we are working in a facebook group. We help each other like that. It’s very complicated and it really puts us in difficulty. But teachers are like everyone else. They have to eat, pay their rent and they haven’t received their allowances yet. “, she explains.
” We ask the State to solve the problems in the universities”
These teaching interruptions discourage many students, testifies Valimbavaka, in communication license. ” We ask the state to solve the problems in public universities because it’s always like that. We spend money to take the bus and finally there is no class. We must solve this problem so that teaching works in the right direction and solve the claims of teachers because there it is the students who are victims “, she claims.
Until then limited to the capital, the movement of discontent among teacher-researchers has spread to the University of Antsiranana, in the north of the country, where they are threatening to interrupt their teaching activities. At the University of Fianarantsoa, in the south of the island, members of the teacher-researcher union have decided not to go to the end of the academic year.
Contacted, the communication from the Ministry of Higher Education indicates that the demands of the union of teacher-researchers no longer depend solely on the competence of the supervisory ministry, whether for the payment of allowances or for the adoption of decrees relating to their status. A meeting with the Prime Minister is expected.