Ministers of Finance and Education: Increase in teachers' salaries next academic year

Cairo – Ahmed Sabry and Nadeen Imam

Finance Minister Ahmed Kojok held a meeting with Minister of Education and Technical Education Mohamed Abdel Latif at the headquarters of the Ministry of Finance in the New Administrative Capital, to discuss several files related to improving the financial conditions of teachers. In this regard, they affirmed their commitment to continuing efforts to approve a salary increase for teachers by the next academic year, thereby contributing to enhancing their incomes and supporting their financial stability, in recognition of their pivotal role and their noble mission within the educational system.

Kojok emphasized the Ministry of Finance’s commitment to supporting the state’s efforts to improve teachers’ conditions and enhance their incomes, noting the ongoing coordination with the Ministry of Education to develop financial and regulatory mechanisms that contribute to achieving this goal, in line with the state’s priorities and the capacities of the general budget, while supporting teachers’ stability and strengthening their ability to fulfill their educational mission.

For his part, Abdel Latif praised the high level of continuous cooperation and coordination between the two ministries, affirming that improving teachers’ conditions and elevating them is at the top of the Ministry of Education’s priorities.

The meeting discussed ways to enhance cooperation between the two ministries to establish mechanisms that contribute to improving teachers’ economic conditions, and examined the necessary financial and regulatory measures to achieve this, within the framework of the state’s orientation toward elevating their status and improving the work environment, which will positively reflect on the quality of the educational process.