Yemen Monitor/Newsroom:
Yemeni Prime Minister Ahmed bin Mubarak has ordered the timely payment of teachers’ salaries, the approval of appropriate salary increases for teachers, and the allocation of entitlements and bonuses to the 2025 budget.
In his directives, the Prime Minister emphasized addressing the existing dual employment, absences in education, and discussing ways to unify the interventions of local authorities to consistently support the salaries of teachers in the public sector, as well as providing free medical and educational services for teachers and their families in government hospitals and educational institutions.
He added, “From today, the teacher’s salary will be paid before our salaries, and in the coming days, the government will take appropriate measures to do justice to teachers. Any teacher, regardless of their length of service in the teaching profession, is a teacher to the Prime Minister, to the minister, and to every leader of the state. We would not have reached our current positions without the teacher who left all opportunities and decided to embark on the epic of awareness and the fight against illiteracy, and to confront darkness and its destructive projects.”
In a press statement, bin Mubarak expressed the government’s pride and appreciation for the struggles of teachers and all state employees who are waging the battles of awareness and steadfastness despite the difficult living conditions they are going through.
He explained that “the current protests of teachers in some governorates for just demands are one of the noble national values that we defend in an immortal national epic.”
He reiterated that education is the first national battle and the cornerstone of awareness, development, and the defeat of the dark Houthi sectarian project, considering education a government priority.
The Prime Minister stressed that his directives will not be limited to temporarily improving the situation of teachers, but rather by adopting sustainable policies to support education, which constitute real guarantees for the stability and development of the educational process. This includes establishing a general Yemeni education fund and allocating sustainable resources to this fund to meet the entitlements, living expenses, and needs of teachers and support education in general, according to transparent and fair mechanisms. He added, “We are also seeking with the private sector to actively participate in supporting this fund, as well as our brothers and friends.”
He said, “We are dealing with education as a strategic matter and mobilizing support from friends, partners, and donors to direct interventions and programs for peacebuilding, development, the environment, and political participation in a way that ensures the stability and development of the educational process, and at the forefront of this is the attention to the needs of the teacher and the family, to ensure successful and sustainable development interventions.”
