Prime Minister Marcel Cholaku announced a “historic budget” for education on Monday of more than 4 percent of GDP, which he said would represent a 60 percent increase over the amount allocated this year. At the same time, the government is negotiating with education unions to raise teachers’ salaries, as promised after the strike ended in June. Although the teachers are waiting for the promised increase, which is about 20% in percentage, but the management wants to pay this money in two parts.

Prime Minister Marcel Čolaku announced on Monday that a new round of negotiations with education unions, the fourth in the last period, will take place today, the main topic of which will be an increase in teachers’ salaries. These negotiations are taking place in the context of the fact that at the end of the summer strike, teachers were promised a significant salary increase of about 20%. However, the Government now appears to want to implement this wage increase in stages, by 13% from 1 January and 7% from September.

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