Uzbek Leader Decrees Pay Rise for Lyceum, Vocational School Workers

Excerpt from report by Uzbek state-owned National News Agency website

On 30 July, the Uzbek president signed a decree “On measures to improve the payment system and encouraging workers of lyceums and vocational schools”.

According to the document, a new improved system of payment for work of teaching staff and leadership of lyceums, vocational schools will be introduced as of 1 September. It will be based on “implementation of unbiased and transparent system of payment, establishment of basic wage rates in accordance with positions and qualification categories of teaching staff and leadership”.

Furthermore, directors’ funds will be set up in lyceums and vocational schools. The funds will be aimed at encouraging teachers and industrial training instructors by establishing monthly increments in addition to basic wage rates for professionalism and personal contribution to the process of education and also by paying one-off bonuses, providing material aid to the workers of the educational establishments.

As of the new academic year, salaries of headmasters and their deputies on educational affairs, professional education and spiritual enlightenment issues at lyceums, vocational schools will be increased by, on average, 1.4 times as against the current rates according to a single tariff system.

[Passage omitted: bonuses for teachers will be increased as well]

Originally published by Uzbek National News Agency website, Tashkent, in Russian 1 Aug 08.

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