Teachers across the Maldives have taken part in a ‘black protest’ – wearing black clothes to school – to raise awareness of pay discrepancies and what they see as the state’s failure to improve the education sector. “This is the first step, we want to draw attention to these issues. For the sake of our students we will go to work until we exhaust all other ways,” said Teachers Association Maldives (TAM) president Athif Abdul Hakeem. “The reason we are doing this to express our grievances. Our discontentment with salary and allowances, lack of resources and other issues we face in teaching,” stated Mausoom Saleem of Thaajuddheen School, Malé.
Posted on: Tue, 08 Apr 2014 22:40:05 +0000