Good image of teachers in society to be promoted by actions backed by Moldova's parliament speaker

Chisinau, 4 October /MOLDPRES/ - The good image of teachers in the society will be promoted by a string of actions backed by Parliament Speaker Andrian Candu. The speaker has discussed the need to organize a campaign in this respect with a group of teachers, the parliament’s communication and public relations department has reported.    

The parliament speaker thanked the teachers for the dedication with which they educate young citizens of Moldova. “Nothing compares to the work of teachers. I know from my own experience how tiresome the work of teacher can be; yet, the country has no future without a qualitative education, without you,” Andrian Candu said.  

The speaker informed that the authorities were preparing amendments to the wage payment system, which is to substantially increase particularly the incomes of the teachers. At the meeting, the teachers pointed out the problems from the system, such as the salary of the auxiliary staff, conditions of education and living of students, status of the teacher in the society and noted the positive changes, such the digitalization of the primary education.  

On the occasion of the World Teacher’s Day, Andrian Candu handed parliament’s distinctions as a token of high appreciation for substantial contribution to the qualitative education.   

Among the laureates, there are the head of the General Association of Teachers from Moldova, Mariana Marin, Rector of the Cahul-based State University Andrei Popa, Rector of the Comrat State University Zaharia Serghei, university professors Otilia Dandara and Anatol Gremalschi, the director of the Financial Banking College, Gabriel Palade, the director of the Alexandru Plamadeala Republican Fine Arts College, Lilia Racila, more teachers from primary schools, lyceums, universities of various Moldovan settlements.     

The World Teacher’s Day has been is annually marked on 5 October starting from 1994, under a decision by UNESCO.