BURUNDI - EDUCATION:  WHAT WANTS TRADE UNIONS STEB, STUB, CONAPES, AND SLEB ?

AGNEWS - DAM - NY, 24/06/2006

The heritage of the Burundian military dictatorship, and especially the socio-economic criminalisation (*)  which it generated, are without any doubt the node of the problem of a number of Burundian "fonctionaires" ( civils servant or workers of the State)  who do not find themselves there more !

For a few months, our Ministers for education, public office and finances have not slept any more!  Why?  Trade unions of the workers of teaching (STEB, STUB, CONAPES and SLEB)…

Claims of all the kinds (to increase the level of the wages of the Burundian professors; to resolve funds for the doctoral training ; to resolve the payment of the trade union dues; to recover the arrears of the fees for the free-lance teachers;  to receive pieces for the construction of their residences; to stabilize the teachers of the university of Burundi etc).  The trade unions of the civils servant of teaching in Burundi want a safety for the professional future of the teachers, a rise in wages and advantages in kind to stimulate them.

The dilemma, on a side their claims are legitimate knowing that these teachers educate our children, but other there is their political instrumentalisation, the difficulty in understanding that the Welfare state it is finished requiring a questioning, and especially the lack of will to find solutions structural in the long run while being engeant for example on a major reflexion on our education system because the old system is not functional any more since nearly 16 years…

Meanwhile, government NKURUNZIZA tries to engage in a modernization of all its education system(*)  for finally finding a solution durable with this problem arising. 

 

AGNEWS 2006