Wage rises for teachers are indispensable but not sufficient to assuage their concerns, the opposition Socialist party on Wednesday, calling for a structural overhaul of Hungary’s public education sector. The opposition Democratic Coalition (DK) calls for a ten percent pension increase with retroactive effect and the one-off payment of 100,000 forints (EUR 246) for pensioners, a party politician said on Wednesday.
“Wage hikes alone without structural changes will not be enough to tackle problems in the sector,” Socialist official István Hiller told an online press conference. Further, wage rises should be fully covered by the state budget once EU co-financing runs out, he said, referring to government plans to use EU funding to cover the wage hikes.
The Socialists’ package of proposals include replacing the National Curriculum with a temporary one drafted by academics and a group of experts. It includes reducing the number of classes for teachers and students and the administrative burdens on teachers, as well as ensuring the free choice of textbooks, Hiller, a former education minister, said. The focus in public education should be on problem-solving instead of accumulating lexical knowledge, Hiller said. He also proposed setting up a stand-alone ministry of education.
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The opposition Democratic Coalition (DK) calls for a ten percent pension increase with retroactive effect and the one-off payment of 100,000 forints (EUR 246) for pensioners, a party politician said on Wednesday. Data of the Central Statistical Office show that food prices in Hungary have gone up by 40 percent, Erzsébet Németh Gy told an online press conference. The 5 percent pension increase implemented by the government “is far not enough to offset inflation,” she said. DK will soon meet pensioners’ trade unions for talks and present them the party’s proposal, she said.
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Source: MTI
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The opposition party and their policies were rejected by the population. Opposition policies were not accepted at the time of election they are positively naive now. One of these days the opposition members will realize money does not grow on trees.